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Medusa Ransomware Turning Your Files into Stone - Unit 42 Threat Intelligence analysts have noticed an escalation in Medusa ransomware activities and a shift in tactics toward extortion, characterized by the introduction in early 2023 of their dedicated leak site called the Medusa Blog. The Unit 42 ...
1 year ago Unit42.paloaltonetworks.com Medusa

10 Best Ransomware Protection Tools - 2025 - It protects devices from ransomware and other cyber threats using advanced threat intelligence, behavioral analysis, and cloud-based technology. It monitors and prevents ransomware assaults on personal files and automatically restores encrypted ...
1 month ago Cybersecuritynews.com

300 Strikes: Fort Worth's Battle Against the Medusa Gang - In the wake of a cyberattack on Tarrant County Appraisal District in March, the Medusa ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the hack and has threatened the public with the threat of leaking 218 GB of the stolen data unless the ransom of ...
11 months ago Cysecurity.news Medusa

Medusa Ransomware Attacks Grown By 42% With New Tools & Techniques - Following the pattern of most modern ransomware operators, Spearwing and its affiliates implement double extortion attacks, first stealing victims’ data before encrypting networks to increase pressure on victims to pay ransoms. In almost all ...
3 weeks ago Cybersecuritynews.com LockBit Medusa

CISA: Medusa ransomware hit over 300 critical infrastructure orgs - Last month, CISA and the FBI issued another joint alert warning that victims from multiple industry sectors across over 70 countries, including critical infrastructure, have been breached in Ghost ransomware attacks. "As of February 2025, ...
2 weeks ago Bleepingcomputer.com Medusa

Medusa Ransomware Unleashes New Tactics: Data Sale, Time Extension, and AI Threats - In the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats, Medusa Ransomware has taken a bold step by launching a dedicated blog to publish victim details, offering a chilling one-click data sale for $10,000. This notorious group, distinct from Medusa Locker ...
1 year ago Cybersecurity-insiders.com Medusa

The Top 10 Ransomware Groups of 2023 - This article takes an in-depth look at the rise in ransomware attacks over the past year and the criminal groups driving the surge in cyber extortion. LockBit has established itself as one of the most notorious ransomware operations since emerging on ...
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Sagent hit by Medusa Ransomware Gang - Actor: medusa ...
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Medusa Ransomware Hacked 300+ Organizations Worldwide from Variety of Critical Infrastructure - In a particularly concerning development, FBI investigations uncovered instances where victims who paid the initial ransom were subsequently contacted by different Medusa actors claiming the first negotiator had stolen the payment, demanding an ...
2 weeks ago Cybersecuritynews.com Medusa

Ransomware gang targets nonprofit providing clean water to world's poorest - Water for People, a nonprofit that aims to improve access to clean water for people whose health is threatened by a lack of it for drinking and sanitation, is the latest organization to have been hit by ransomware criminals. The ...
1 year ago Therecord.media Medusa

The Week in Ransomware - Earlier this month, the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware operation suffered a five-day disruption to their Tor data leak and negotiation sites, rumored to be caused by a law enforcement action. The FBI revealed this week that they hacked the BlackCat/ALPHV ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Akira Noescape

Hive Ransomware: A Detailed Analysis - This past week, on January 26th, to be exact, the FBI successfully shut down the Hive ransomware group and saved victims over a hundred million dollars in ransom payments and remediation costs. As ransomware continues to be a national security threat ...
2 years ago Heimdalsecurity.com LockBit

Toyota confirms breach after Medusa ransomware threatens to leak data - Toyota Financial Services has confirmed that it detected unauthorized access on some of its systems in Europe and Africa after Medusa ransomware claimed an attack on the company. Toyota Financial Services, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, is ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Rhysida Medusa

Waiting for the BlackCat rebrand - We saw another ransomware operation shut down this week after first getting breached by law enforcement and then targeting critical infrastructure, putting them further in the spotlight of the US government. While the Tor onion domain seizure was a ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Medusa Cuba STORMOUS

CISA: More than 300 critical infrastructure orgs attacked by Medusa ransomware | The Record from Recorded Future News - “FBI investigations identified that after paying the ransom, one victim was contacted by a separate Medusa actor who claimed the negotiator had stolen the ransom amount already paid and requested half of the payment be made again to provide the ...
2 weeks ago Therecord.media CVE-2024-1709 Medusa

Ransomware Roundup - The Ransomware Roundup report aims to provide readers with brief insights into the evolving ransomware landscape and the Fortinet solutions that protect against those variants. This edition of the Ransomware Roundup covers the 8base ransomware. 8base ...
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The Week in Ransomware - Governments struck back this week against members of ransomware operations, imposing sanctions on one threat actor and sentencing another to prison. On Tuesday, the Australian, US, and UK governments announced sanctions against Aleksandr Gennadievich ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit BianLian Akira Cactus

Ransomware trends and recovery strategies companies should know - Ransomware attacks can have severe consequences, causing financial losses, reputational damage, and operational disruptions. The methods used to deliver ransomware vary, including phishing emails, malicious websites, and exploiting vulnerabilities in ...
1 year ago Helpnetsecurity.com

How ransomware gangs are engaging - As ransomware gangs continue to market themselves as legitimate businesses complete with customer service representatives, new research from Sophos showed that threat actors are expanding public relations efforts to further pressure victims into ...
1 year ago Techtarget.com LockBit Snatch

The Week in Ransomware - Today's column brings you two weeks of information on the latest ransomware attacks and research after we skipped last week's article. BleepingComputer has learned that some of the BlackCat/ALPHV affiliates are not buying the explanation and have ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Qilin Noescape

The Week in Ransomware - This week was pretty quiet on the ransomware front, with most of the attention on the seizure of the BreachForums data theft forum. That does not mean there was nothing of interest released this week about ransomware. A report by CISA said that the ...
10 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Inc ransom Black Basta

The Week in Ransomware - An international law enforcement operation claims to have dismantled a ransomware affiliate operation in Ukraine, which was responsible for attacks on organizations in 71 countries. The threat actors are said to be affiliates of numerous ransomware ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Qilin Cactus Black Basta

Researchers link 3AM ransomware to Conti, Royal cybercrime gangs - Security researchers analyzing the activity of the recently emerged 3AM ransomware operation uncovered close connections with infamous groups, such as the Conti syndicate and the Royal ransomware gang. The 3AM ransomware gang's activity was first ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com Blacksuit LockBit Threeam

Ransomware in 2023 recap: 5 key takeaways - This provides the best overall picture of ransomware activity, but the true number of attacks is far higher. While some ransomware trends hardly changed over the last year, such as LockBit's continued dominance, ransomware criminals also challenged ...
1 year ago Malwarebytes.com Scattered Spider LockBit

Dozens of countries will pledge to stop paying ransomware gangs - An alliance of 40 countries will sign a pledge during the third annual International Counter-Ransomware Initiative summit in Washington, D.C., to stop paying ransoms demanded by cybercriminal groups. Addressing reporters on Monday, Anne Neuberger, ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com