The US and the UK sanction seven people based in Russia, with likely FSB ties, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan
on par with terrorism and military crisis between states. Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk : Russian Cybercrime Gang Trickbot Sanctioned by US, UK Maggie Miller / Politico : U.S., U.K. sanction Russian hacke...
The US and the UK sanction seven people, all based in Russia, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan
The United Kingdom and United States on Thursday sanctioned seven people connected to what officials have told The Record is a single network behind …
Leaked chat logs reveal the internal structure and hierarchy of the Conti ransomware group, which some experts believe is a rebrand of the Ryuk ransomware gang
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
A look at the ruthless Eastern European ransomware gang Ryuk, which hit 235+ US hospitals since 2018 and collected an estimated $100M in ransom last year
Wall Street Journal :
Chainalysis: ransomware gangs made at least $350M in 2020, up 311% YoY, with the Ryuk strain as the year's top earner, followed by the now-defunct Maze
The figure represents a 311% increase over ransomware payments recorded the previous your, in 2019. — Ransomware gangs …
Report: the operators of Ryuk ransomware earned an estimated $150M+ worth of Bitcoin from ransom payments, which are being cashed out through Binance and Huobi
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Cybersecurity experts say FBI is investigating Ryuk ransomware attacks on more than two dozen US hospitals, and officials warned hospitals to back up systems
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating the recent targeting with ransomware of more than two dozen hospitals across …
McAfee report: NetWalker ransomware operators have made ~$25M from ransom payments since March, putting them in the same league as Ryuk, Dharma, REvil groups
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @philippederyck and @brianhonan Tweets: Philippe De Ryck / @philippederyck : This article shines a light on the nightmares of ransomware. Data is copied and then enc...
Researchers detail the increasingly prevalent LockBit ransomware, which may one day reach parity with other feared ransomware packages like Maze or Ryuk
You've probably never heard of LockBit, but that's likely to change. — Ransomware has emerged as one of the top threats facing large organizations …
Microsoft details techniques of ransomware including REvil, Samas, Doppelpaymer, Bitpaymer, and Ryuk, which are manually controlled by humans, not automated
Ransomware attackers are using common tools to take down big enterprise with ‘human-operated’ attacks.