ransomware
Airport disruptions in Europe caused by a ransomware attack
The disruptions over the weekend at several major European airports were caused by a ransomware attack targeting the check-in and boarding systems. Among the airports suffering technical difficulties are Heathrow in London, Brussels Airport, and Brandenburg in Berlin. Cork and Dublin airports in Ireland also experienced difficulties, but the impact was minor. The attack started […]
VC giant Insight Partners warns thousands after ransomware breach
New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners is notifying thousands of individuals whose personal information was stolen in a ransomware attack. The company disclosed the cybersecurity incident in February, when it said that a threat actor gained access to its network following a “sophisticated social engineering attack.” Two months later, Insight Partners confirmed that the […]
New HybridPetya ransomware can bypass UEFI Secure Boot
A recently discovered ransomware strain called HybridPetya can bypass the UEFI Secure Boot feature to install a malicious application on the EFI System Partition. HybridPetya appears inspired by the destructive Petya/NotPetya malware that encrypted computers and prevented Windows from booting in attacks in 2016 and 2017 but did not provide a recovery option. Researchers at cybersecurity company ESET found a sample […]
Panama Ministry of Economy discloses breach claimed by INC ransomware
Panama’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has disclosed that one of its computers may have been compromised in a cyberattack.. The government noted that it activated the security procedures for these situations, stating that the incident has been contained and didn’t impact core systems that are vital to its operations. “The Ministry of Economy and […]
US charges admin of LockerGoga, MegaCortex, Nefilim ransomware
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged Ukrainian national Volodymyr Viktorovich Tymoshchuk for his role as the administrator of the LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim ransomware operations. Also known online as deadforz, Boba, msfv, and farnetwork, Tymoshchuk was involved in ransomware attacks that led to the breach of hundreds of companies, resulting in millions of dollars […]
Lovesac confirms data breach after ransomware attack claims
American furniture brand Lovesac is warning that it suffered a data breach impacting an undisclosed number of individuals, stating their personal data was exposed in a cybersecurity incident. Lovesac is a furniture designer, manufacturer, and retailer, operating 267 showrooms across the United States, and having annual net sales of $750 million. They are best known for their […]
Pennsylvania AG Office says ransomware attack behind recent outage
The Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General announced that a ransomware attack is behind the ongoing two-week service outage. In an official statement, Attorney General David W. Sunday Jr. said that the office refused to pay the attackers. “The interruption was caused by an outsider encrypting files in an effort to force the office to […]
Malware devs abuse Anthropic’s Claude AI to build ransomware
Anthropic’s Claude Code large language model has been abused by threat actors who used it in data extortion campaigns and to develop ransomware packages. The company says that its tool has also been used in fraudulent North Korean IT worker schemes and to distribute lures for Contagious Interview campaigns, in Chinese APT campaigns, and by […]
MATLAB dev says ransomware gang stole data of 10,000 people
MathWorks, a leading developer of mathematical simulation and computing software, revealed that a ransomware gang stole the data of over 10,000 people after breaching its network in April. The company disclosed the attack on May 27, when it linked ongoing service outages to a ransomware incident that disrupted access to some internal systems and online applications for […]
Experimental PromptLock ransomware uses AI to encrypt, steal data
Threat researchers discovered the first AI-powered ransomware, called PromptLock, that uses Lua scripts to steal and encrypt data on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The malware uses OpenAI’s gpt-oss:20b model through the Ollama API to dynamically generate the malicious Lua scripts from hard-coded prompts. How PromptLock works According to ESET researchers, PromptLock is written in Golang […]