81% of the healthcare organisations operating in the UK have experienced a ransomware attack in the last 12 months, according to a study written by Obrela Security Industries. Based on a survey of 100 cybersecurity professionals working in the sector, the researchers found that 38% of organisations chose to pay a ransom demand to get […]
A report commissioned by Google puts the UK at number 10 on a list of countries worst affected by ransomware and facing a similar number of active strains as South Korea, Vietnam, China, Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, and Iran. GandCrab is the most active ransomware ‘family’, according to the report, claiming more than 54,000 […]
The Sinclair Broadcast Group, the US’s second largest TV channel operator, covering 40% of American households, revealed on Monday that a number of its servers and workstations had been encrypted with ransomware, disrupting its back office operations. A digital forensics company has been hired to investigate the breach. It’s too early to ascertain exactly what […]
High-profile, high-tech F1 teams such as Mercedes are attractive targets for hackers and cyber criminals. Some of the threats they face are familiar, particularly ransomware and phishing, while others particularly relate to the travelling caravan of remote workers involved in a 22-race season and the IP the teams own and rely on the maintain an […]
The University of Sunderland has been the victim of “a major cyber attack” that has affected email, telephone and IT systems. Vice-chancellor Sir David Bell has admitted “we don’t know” when a fix will be found. In a video message on a temporary website Sir David described the attack as “particularly upsetting” and said “we […]
Showing just how lucratively attractive cybercrime has become to criminal gangs and how dangerous it is to the financial sector, businesses and the public, US Treasury analysis of 177 unique convertible virtual currency wallet addresses reveals that more than $5 billion in bitcoin transactions has been tied to the top ten ransomware variants. The mean […]