When ransomware visits your network, resolve to build it back better. And if you’re tempted to pay the ransom, don’t. That money is better spent on new defenses to prevent a repeat incident. These are some of the takeaways from a remarkable British Library report, Learning Lessons From The Cyberattack, that analyzes the paralyzing ransomware […]
Imagine an everyday ransomware attack on a U.S. city that results in sensitive data being leaked weeks later when the large ransom demanded is not paid. Now imagine that the mayor of that city denies that the leaked data was as bad as it appeared, asserting in a press conference that the stolen data was […]
The precise origins of today’s ransomware are still up for debate but there is no doubt that a piece of malware called Reveton, which first emerged in 2012, was an important moment. The world has a chance to re-assess this malware’s significance with the news that its alleged creator, Maksim Silnikau, was arrested in Spain […]
Around a decade ago, the bad people who make ransomware had an idea that proved so successful it helped fuel a crime boom that still haunts us to this day: hide the technical complexity of ransomware behind simple web platforms so that any criminal can launch attacks. Better known as ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), after a slow […]
On October 28, 2023, the British Library in London was hit by a devastating ransomware attack that ended up causing months of disruption to the venerable institution’s services. We’ve covered this story before, both the incident itself and the unusually frank post-incident lessons learned report published by the Library in March. We later learned that […]
On May 7 2024, almost five years after it first appeared, the LockBit ransomware group finally got a human face. His name is Dmitry Khoroshev (aka ‘LockBitSupp’), alleged by the FBI and UK National Crime Agency (NCA) to be the platform’s administrator, the powerful figure who helped direct it to attack at least 7,000 organizations […]
