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May 18, 2021

Insurance Giant AXA – victim of Ransomware attack

AXA, which is one of the biggest insurance firms based in France, suffered a ransomware attack in mid-May at various branches in many countries including Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. This ransomware attack took place after AXA launched the statement that they will stop paying any kind of ransoms to the adversaries. It is believed that more than […]

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 […]

March 20, 2020

UK Fintech Firm Finastra announces they were attacked by ransomware.

On the 20th of March 2020, Finastra, a leading financial technology provider from the UK, announced that it had to take several servers offline in response to a security breach they had discovered earlier that day. The announce come out after sources at two different U.S. financial institutions had forwarded a notice, they received from Finastra to cybersecurity writer Brian […]

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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Insurance Giant AXA – victim of Ransomware attack

Insurance companies becoming a common target – CNA Ransomware Attack

UK Fintech Firm Finastra announces they were attacked by ransomware.

Legal service provider Epiq Global among the Ransomware attack victims

Collaboration can mitigate the effects of Ransomware Attacks

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