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June 28, 2022

Chip manufacturing giant AMD investigating claims of stolen data

On Monday 27th of June 2022, the RansomHouse extortion group added AMD to their list of victims on their darknet site where they claimed to have stolen more than 450 GB in the January attack. There were some rumours earlier this year that AMD was hit by ransomware, but they were never confirmed officially confirmed. Based on an examined sample […]

June 27, 2022

Sensitive health data leaked after ransomware attack against Fitzgibbon Hospital

On Saturday 25th of June 2022, information pointing to an attack on Fitzgibbon Hospital in Missouri was discovered. The group “Daixin Team” have claimed responsibility for the attack via their onion site which contained files allegedly stolen from Fitzgibbon. Based on the leaked files, the Daixin Team had claimed to have exfiltrated 40 GB of data which contained numerous files […]

June 24, 2022

Conti ransomware finally closes the book on their operations

On Wednesday 20th of June 2022, the Conti ransomware gang finally closed the book on their operation after taking down the last two Tor servers which were used to leak data and negotiate with victims. It was first reported in May, that Conti had started to shut down their operations and had told its members that the operations were going […]

June 7, 2022

Mandiant confirms no evidence of an attack from the LockBit ransomware group

On Monday 6th of June, the LockBit ransomware gang published a new page on their data leak website that named Mandiant, a major American cybersecurity firm as the victim where they claimed to have stolen 356,841 files from Mandiant. On further investigation of the new page, there is a 0-byte file named ‘mandiantyellowpress.com.7z’ displayed on the page which appears to […]

June 6, 2022

The municipality of Palermo suffers major disruptions due to a ransomware attack

On Friday 3rd of June, the municipality of Palermo in Southern Italy suffered a cyberattack which resulted in a wide range of operations and services used by both citizens and visiting tourists being impacted. The systems have remained offline for the past three days even though local IT experts have been trying to restore the systems. According to multiple local […]

June 2, 2022

Victim’s website hacked to display ransom note in a new extortion strategy

A new extortion strategy which is being used by the Industrial Spy has been identified where they gain access to their victim’s corporate websites to publicly display ransom notes. The first incident of this new strategy was seen on Thursday 2nd of June 2020, when Industrial Spy started to sell data, which they claim was stolen from the French company, […]

June 2, 2022

Foxconn confirms disruptions to production in Mexico as a result of a ransomware attack

Recently, the electronics manufacturer, Foxconn has confirmed that one of its production plants in Tijuana, Mexico has been impacted by a ransomware attack in late May. The plant is considered a key plant for Foxconn as it acts as a critical supply hub for the U.S. state of California which is a significant electronics consumer. A Foxconn spokesperson also revealed […]

May 9, 2022

National emergency declared by Costa Rica after Conti ransomware attacks

On Sunday 8th of May 2022, President Rodrigo Chaves, the newly elected Costa Rican President declared a national emergency where he cited ongoing Conti ransomware attacks as the reason for the emergency. The Conti ransomware group originally started their ransomware attacks against government institutions of Costa Rican last month. In response to these attacks, on the 19th of April, Costa […]

May 6, 2022

AGCO, US agricultural machinery maker announces they suffered a ransomware attack

On Thursday 5th of May 2022, AGCO, one of the leading US-based agricultural machinery producers suffered a ransomware attack which resulted in some of their production facilities being impacted. This incident was announced on Friday 6th of May 2022 in a press release where AGCO stated that their business operations will be affected for several days whilst they repair their […]

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Chip manufacturing giant AMD investigating claims of stolen data

Sensitive health data leaked after ransomware attack against Fitzgibbon Hospital

Conti ransomware finally closes the book on their operations

Mandiant confirms no evidence of an attack from the LockBit ransomware group

The municipality of Palermo suffers major disruptions due to a ransomware attack

Victim’s website hacked to display ransom note in a new extortion strategy

Foxconn confirms disruptions to production in Mexico as a result of a ransomware attack

National emergency declared by Costa Rica after Conti ransomware attacks

AGCO, US agricultural machinery maker announces they suffered a ransomware attack

Collaboration can mitigate the effects of Ransomware Attacks

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