One of the country’s largest blood donor and research centers has suffered a ransomware attack. The New York Blood Center (NYBC) said that on Sunday, January 26, it identified “suspicious activity” affecting its IT systems. Third-party cybersecurity experts investigated and have confirmed that the suspicious activity is a result of a ransomware incident. The center … Read more
New York Blood Center (NYBC), one of the largest nonprofit blood centers in the United States, says it is experiencing service disruptions after being hit by a ransomware attack. NYBC said in a statement on Wednesday that the organization detected suspicious activity on its IT systems on January 26, which it has since confirmed was … Read more
Japanese electronics giant Casio has confirmed that the personal data of almost 8,500 individuals was stolen during an October ransomware attack. Casio was the target of a ransomware attack on October 5, which saw hackers access sensitive data and render many of the company’s systems unusable. The attack was claimed by the Underground ransomware gang, … Read more
Jan 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Ransomware Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an attack that involved a threat actor utilizing a Python-based backdoor to maintain persistent access to compromised endpoints and then leveraged this access to deploy the RansomHub ransomware throughout the target network. According to GuidePoint Security, initial access is said to have been facilitated … Read more
FunkSec ransomware is a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group with hacktivist ties that appears to use AI to assist its cybercrime activities, Check Point Research outlined in an analysis published Friday. The group was first introduced in October 2024 in a post on the Breached forum and first established its data leak site in … Read more
