Europe just experienced a smaller but still alarming version of last May’s Colonial Pipeline attack in the U.S., as two large German fuel storage companies were taken offline by ransomware. The Jan. 29 attack targeted Oiltanking GmbH Group and Mabanaft GmbH & Co. KG Group, which operates fuel storage facilities as subsidiaries of the logistics […]
The world might just have experienced its first ever hacktivist ransomware attack. It came by way of a claim by campaigners opposed to the regime of President Lukashenko that they encrypted computers belonging to the Belarusian Railway service. The highly unusual attack is said to have happened on Jan. 24, when a group calling itself […]
In a rare piece of cybersecurity good news, in mid-January 2022 Russian security services announced the arrest in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Lipetsk of 14 alleged members of the world’s most notorious ransomware group, REvil (pronounced AreEvil). As cybercriminal busts go, this one confirmed every stereotype of the hacking underworld. Video released on the Russian […]
