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April 20, 2021

REvil extorted Apple – $50 Million Ransom demanded

Quanta Computer which is one of the leading notebook manufacturers and one of the business partners with Apple recently have been attacked by REvil ransomware group during April 2021. Quanta is a Taiwan based manufacturer that has a long list of high-profile customers, including Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Alienware, Lenovo, Cisco, and Microsoft. They are also responsible for the manufacture of […]

April 12, 2021

Ireland’s health service forced to drop up to 80% of appointment due to Conti ransomware attack

On the 14th of March 2021, Health Service Executive of Ireland, which is responsible for the provision of health and personal social services in the Republic of Ireland had to take all its IT systems offline after experiencing a Conti ransomware attack early in the morning that left Ireland’s health system paralyzed as up to 80% of appointments had to […]

March 26, 2021

Insurance companies becoming a common target – CNA Ransomware Attack

In March 2021, one of the biggest Insurance companies in the US, CNA suffered a ransomware attack from the ransomware, Phoenix CryptoLocker that has possible links to the Evil Corp hacking group. The company’s overall services and business was impacted which led to network disruption and impacting certain systems in the CNA environment. It is said that more than ten […]

July 6, 2020

Capcom hit by Ragnar Locker ransomware with 1TB of data stolen

On 2nd of November, Japanese game developer Capcom experienced a ransomware attack where the company had to shut down portions of their corporate network to prevent the spread of the attack and threat actors claim to have stolen 1TB of sensitive data from their corporate networks in the US, Japan, and Canada. At the time of compromise, Capcom displayed notices […]

March 3, 2020

Legal service provider Epiq Global among the Ransomware attack victims

On February 29th, 2021, Epiq Global, a highly recognized provider of legal services, experienced a ransomware attack by the Ryuk ransomware. Epiq Global’s initial response to the detection of the attack was to take all their systems offline to contain the ransomware. Later that day, news came out that some of Epiq Global’s computers and systems were running older versions […]

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REvil extorted Apple – $50 Million Ransom demanded

Ireland’s health service forced to drop up to 80% of appointment due to Conti ransomware attack

Insurance companies becoming a common target – CNA Ransomware Attack

Capcom hit by Ragnar Locker ransomware with 1TB of data stolen

Legal service provider Epiq Global among the Ransomware attack victims

Collaboration can mitigate the effects of Ransomware Attacks

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