Following Attack, Colonial Pipeline Says Systems Could be Online by End of Week

A ransomware attack late last week took down a major U.S. pipeline but the company says its making incremental progress bringing things back online.

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FBI Warns of PYSA Ransomware Targeting Educational Sector

The FBI provided technical details on the ransomware strain along with indicators of compromise and domains associated with its activity on Tuesday.

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Ransomware Costs Healthcare Firm $67 Million

Restoring its IT infrastructure as quickly as possible required a significant labor expense, both internal and external.

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Friday Five 1/29

Linux bugs, hacker personas, and the Emotet botnet disrupted - catch up on all of the week's infosec news with the Friday Five!

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Friday Five 1/8

Anti-secrecy activists, insider threats, and exhaustive asset inventories - catch up on all of the week's infosec news with the Friday Five!

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DoppelPaymer Ransomware Gang Threatening Victims

In a recent FBI note the agency outlined how DoppelPaymer ransomware attacks have impacted critical infrastructure - and the lengths the attackers have gone to get paid.

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Ransomware Payments, Threats to Exfiltrate Data Are Up

Not only is the average ransom payment going up, so are cases in which the attackers threaten to release a company's stolen data.

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Ransomware Reportedly Behind Nationwide UHS Hospital Outage

The full scope of the incident isn't yet known but as a result, facilities across the U.S. have been left without access to computer systems.

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Ransomware Crew Ravages Liquor, Wine Company

The parent company of some of the biggest names in liquor, including Jack Daniel's, was hit by ransomware, allowing attackers to steal 1 TB of data.

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U.S. Warns of Ransomware Attacks Targeting Pipeline Ops

Following an attack on a gas compression facility, CISA is urging organizations to take steps to safeguard their systems.

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