WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official told Reuters. Internal guidance sent on Thursday to U.S.
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The US Department of Justice has arraigned in court today a Latvian woman who was part of the Trickbot malware crew, where she served as a programmer and wrote code for controlling the malware and deploying ransomware on infected computers.
The Great Fire of London helped forge the property insurance market, as residents feared a repeat of the savage destruction of 1666. In the absence of a state-backed fire service, some insurers even employed their own brigades, betting that limiting the damage to a property would be cheaper than rebuilding it.
First it was gas. Then it was meat. Now it's local television stations. At least two TV news stations have been completely offline since Thursday in what cybersecurity experts say appears to be a ransomware attack on their parent company.
UF Health-The Villages Hospital has been forced to operate by pen and paper thanks to a ransomware attack which has shut down the computer system. The hospital has not officially acknowledged the attack, but an official with knowledge of the situation confirmed what has taken place, both at the hospital in The Villages and Leesburg Regional Medical Center.
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CrowdStrike predicted in 2020 that the ransomware threat would only worsen, and news reports since have borne this out. Stories of ransomware attacks since the start of May 2021 alone include: In addition, not all ransomware attacks make the news, as reflected in CrowdStrike-sponsored research: in a 2020 survey 56% of respondents admitted that their organization had suffered from a ransomware attack in the previous 12 months.
The head of the Health Service Executive has said the damage caused by the recent cyber attack had a "devastating impact". hief executive Paul Reid said it wiped out more than 2,000 systems and "completely disarmed" many clinical and medical teams of the basic tools they need for treating patients.