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Ransomware infections usually come from malicious hackers. But in a rarity, a string of attacks was sourced to a pair of cybersecurity employees out to extort millions from victims.  Kevin Tyler Martin, a ransomware threat negotiator at cybersecurity provider DigitalMint, and Ryan Clifford Goldberg from Sygnia Cybersecurity Services, are allegedly behind the scheme, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. 

A 12-page court document shows a federal grand jury indicted Goldberg and Martin last month fo

In April of this year, a cyberattack on a large telecommunications company has been claimed by a ransomware gang that is gaining momentum as a cybercriminal operation.  On 1 June, the RansomHub operation posted Frontier Communications to its leak site claiming to have sensitive information of more than 2 million people.  The group claimed it spent more than two months attempting to extort the company but never got a response.  Frontier did not respond to requests for comment but reported a cyber

As if things were not messy enough in the Change Healthcare attack, a second cybercriminal gang RansomHub is trying to exhort the company's parent, UnitedHealth Group, and have it pay another ransom for data that an affiliate of Ransomware-as-a-Service group BlackCat claims to have stolen in February 2024.   Threat intelligence firm SOCRadar in a recent blog post said RansomHub is threatening to sell "to the highest bidder" 4 terabytes of "highly sensitive data" stolen in the Change Healthcare a

The term "malvertising" (or "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, and not good ones. Therefore, it fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. As a result, those who are unfamiliar might get the impression that it is no big deal, but this is a far cry from the case.

Malvertising acts as a vessel for malware propagation.  To set such a stratagem in motion, cybercriminals poison legitimate websites with ads that lead to shady URLs or download malicious code c

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The American Hospital Association is accusing the parent company of Change Healthcare, which for two weeks has dealt with a cybersecurity incident that has caused disruptions at pharmacies nationwide of failing to adequately address the issues healthcare providers face getting reimbursed for services as a result of the attack.

On 1 March, UnitedHealth Group, which owns Change Healthcare, rolled out a “Temporary Funding Assistance Program” for providers who rely on the company’s software to get r

The Fidelity National Financial (FNF) cyber-attack leaked the personal data of 1.3 million customers, the company has disclosed in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  FNF is one of the largest title insurance and transaction services providers in the United States, with a market capitalization of $13.3 billion, an annual revenue of over $10 billion, and a workforce of about 23,000 people.[1]

The November 2023 cyber-attack disrupted the company’s operations for nearly a wee