Somali pirates has released hijacked Bangladeshi cargo vessel MV Abdullah and all 23 crew members after keeping hostage for 32 days, an official of the owner company of this ship said....
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center failed to reveal threats of potential swatting attacks until this site revealed the threat. Should they have disclosed it themselves?
"One-third of UK-based #CISOs have confessed to paying #ransomware groups millions of dollars in recent years in a bid to alleviate the impact of an attack, according to new research.
Analysis from security firm Trellix found four-in-ten UK CISOs have managed a ransomware attack in the last five years – and in every single case, their organization opted to pay.
#Trellix found that one-third of CISOs paid between $5 million and $15 million for a ransom demand while 13% paid between $10 and $15 million.
The minimum ransom paid by all UK businesses across a five year period stood at around $250,000, the study found."
They obviously use #Bitcoin :bitcoin: because most #Cybercrime#Insurance wouldn't pay / reimburse #ransom [yes, for some bizarre reason they pay ransom, which is inherently bad, NEVER EVER DO THAT!!!] if it was in #Monero :monero: ...
So AlphV (aka BlackCat) is trying something different again. This time, it seems they are claiming a victim before they have even attempted to contact the victim or extort them. They post no proof of claims. They state that they are taking this approach because the victim's cyberinsurance policy does not cover extortion, and their research into the victim (Tipalti) and one of the victim's clients (Roblox) suggests that their usual approach will not work. They intend to try to extort those firms and Twitch, all individually.
They even cite an academic reference on the potential benefit of paying ransom.
This listing is not the nasty approach that we've seen in some other listings on that leak site. But we'll see what happens if or when the victims don't respond.
I've sent an inquiry to Tipalti who is probably already swamped and running around trying to figure out what happened. AlphV claims to have been in multiple systems of theirs since September 8. Whether that's true or not remains to be seen.
Yes, I know about hashtags. I use them. albeit sparingly, as I think is appropriate, without making my posts #look#like#Ransom#notes. For example, I tag my photos with "#photography". What I won't do is label my "boring" posts, because I like to think that every one of them has the potential to be boring to someone.
This week, Nuance (a MSFT-owned tech firm) disclosed a number of their clients who are HIPAA-covered entities were affected by the MOVEit breach. They did not reveal numbers and their disclosure is not on HHS's public breach tool yet.
Somali pirates release hijacked Bangladeshi ship (www.bssnews.net)
Somali pirates has released hijacked Bangladeshi cargo vessel MV Abdullah and all 23 crew members after keeping hostage for 32 days, an official of the owner company of this ship said....