Slashdot Items Tagged "ransomware"

Date / Time Story
Monday April 06, 2026 @12:44PM Germany Doxes 'UNKN,' Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:33AM FBI Seizes RAMP Cybercrime Forum Used By Ransomware Gangs
Friday December 12, 2025 @05:40PM Russian Hackers Debut Simple Ransomware Service, But Store Keys In Plain Text
Monday November 10, 2025 @07:20PM A Jailed Hacking Kingpin Reveals All About Cybercrime Gang
Monday November 03, 2025 @11:17PM DOJ Accuses US Ransomware Negotiators of Launching Their Own Ransomware Attacks
Monday October 27, 2025 @04:44PM Ransomware Profits Drop As Victims Stop Paying Hackers
Wednesday October 08, 2025 @04:20PM Teens Arrested In London Preschool Ransomware Attack
Monday July 21, 2025 @03:57PM Weak Password Allowed Hackers To Sink a 158-Year-Old Company
Friday July 11, 2025 @06:54PM Russian Basketball Player Arrested For Alleged Role In Ransomware Attacks
Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:32PM Ghost Ransomware Continues To Infect Critical Infrastructure, Feds Warn
Thursday February 06, 2025 @08:49PM Ransomware Payments Dropped 35% In 2024
Monday January 13, 2025 @09:41PM Ransomware Crew Abuses AWS Native Encryption, Sets Data-Destruct Timer for 7 Days
Friday December 20, 2024 @06:31PM Justice Department Unveils Charges Against Alleged LockBit Developer
Wednesday December 04, 2024 @02:46AM Vodka Maker Stoli Says August Ransomware Attack Contributed To Bankruptcy Filing
Monday November 25, 2024 @11:23PM Blue Yonder Ransomware Attack Disrupts Grocery Store Supply Chain
Friday October 25, 2024 @12:12AM UnitedHealth Says Change Healthcare Hack Affects Over 100 Million
Friday October 11, 2024 @04:33PM Casio Confirms Customer Data Stolen In Ransomware Attack
Saturday October 05, 2024 @01:26AM A Quarter Million Comcast Subscribers Had Data Stolen From Debt Collector
Wednesday October 02, 2024 @06:56PM Police Arrest Four Suspects Linked To LockBit Ransomware Gang
Tuesday September 24, 2024 @07:59PM Kansas Water Facility Switches to Manual Operations Following Cyberattack
Friday August 30, 2024 @06:07PM City of Columbus Sues Man After He Discloses Severity of Ransomware Attack
Tuesday July 30, 2024 @05:44PM Dark Angels Ransomware Receives Record-Breaking $75 Million Ransom
Friday July 05, 2024 @09:45PM Cancer Patient Forced To Make Terrible Decision After Ransomware Attack On London Hospitals
Wednesday July 03, 2024 @04:54PM Ransomware Locks Credit Union Users Out of Bank Accounts
Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:45PM Police Arrest Conti and LockBit Ransomware Crypter Specialist
Thursday June 06, 2024 @03:21PM FBI Recovers 7,000 LockBit Keys, Urges Ransomware Victims To Reach Out
Friday May 10, 2024 @09:11PM Black Basta Ransomware Attack Brought Down Ascension IT Systems, Report Finds
Tuesday April 30, 2024 @04:19PM Change Healthcare Hackers Broke In Using Stolen Credentials, No MFA
Tuesday April 23, 2024 @05:58PM Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @09:02PM Missouri County Declares State of Emergency Amid Suspected Ransomware Attack
Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:53PM Stanford University Failed To Detect Ransomware Intruders For 4 Months
Wednesday March 06, 2024 @05:03PM Fidelity Customers' Financial Info Feared Stolen In Suspected Ransomware Attack
Tuesday March 05, 2024 @11:04PM BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes After Apparent $22M Payment By Change Healthcare
Monday December 11, 2023 @04:42PM US Healthcare Giant Norton Says Hackers Stole Millions of Patients' Data During Ransomware Attack
Friday November 10, 2023 @07:26PM NY AG Issues $450K Penalty To US Radiology After Unpatched Bug Led To Ransomware
Monday October 30, 2023 @07:10PM Google Promises a Rescue Patch For Android 14's 'Ransomware' Bug
Friday October 27, 2023 @05:09PM Android 14 Storage Bug Has Users Locked Out of Their Devices
Tuesday August 08, 2023 @06:43PM White House Holds First-Ever Summit On the Ransomware Crisis Plaguing the Nation's Public Schools
Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:56PM US Government Agencies Hit In Global Cyberattack
Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:52PM Microsoft Says Clop Ransomware Gang Is Behind MOVEit Mass-Hacks
Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:11PM Ransomware Attack On US Dental Insurance Giant Exposes Data of 9 Million Patients
Monday May 08, 2023 @05:39PM NextGen Healthcare Says Hackers Accessed Personal Data of More Than 1 Million Patients
Monday April 17, 2023 @04:41PM LockBit Ransomware Samples For Apple Macs Hint At New Risks For MacOS Users
Friday March 17, 2023 @05:00PM Cancer Patient Sues Hospital After Ransomware Gang Leaks Her Nude Medical Photos
Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:36PM Dish Network Confirms Network Outage Was a Cybersecurity Breach
Monday February 27, 2023 @10:57PM US Marshals Service Suffers 'Major' Security Breach That Compromises Sensitive Information
Wednesday February 15, 2023 @06:48PM Ransomware Gang Uses New Zero-Day To Steal Data On 1 Million Patients
Wednesday February 15, 2023 @05:49PM City of Oakland Declares State of Emergency After Ransomware Attack
Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:23PM US Says It 'Hacked the Hackers' To Bring Down Hive Ransomware Gang
Wednesday January 25, 2023 @04:25PM Hackers Demand $10M From Riot Games To Stop Leak of 'League of Legends' Source Code
Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:07PM The Guardian Says Ransomware Attack Compromised Staff's Personal Data
Friday December 02, 2022 @08:44PM New CryWiper Data Wiper Targets Russian Courts, Mayor's Offices
Friday December 02, 2022 @04:59PM FBI, CISA Say Cuba Ransomware Gang Extorted $60 Million From Victims This Year
Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:25AM White House Invites Dozens of Nations For Ransomware Summit
Monday October 31, 2022 @04:45PM White House Invites Dozens of Nations For Ransomware Summit
Wednesday October 26, 2022 @12:34AM Australia's Medibank Says Data of All 4 Million Customers Accessed By Hacker
Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:14AM Cisco Hacked By Yanluowang Ransomware Gang, 2.8GB Allegedly Stolen
Friday July 22, 2022 @05:11PM A Small Canadian Town Is Being Extorted By a Global Ransomware Gang
Monday June 06, 2022 @04:17PM Italian City of Palermo Shuts Down All Systems To Fend Off Cyberattack
Friday May 27, 2022 @04:53PM GoodWill Ransomware Forces Victims To Donate To the Poor
Tuesday April 12, 2022 @04:31PM T-Mobile Secretly Bought Its Customer Data From Hackers To Stop Leak. It Failed
Friday March 11, 2022 @06:22PM US Extradites REvil Ransomware Member To Stand Trial For Kaseya Attack
Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:28PM Hackers Demand NVIDIA Open Source Their Drivers Or They Leak More Data
Monday February 28, 2022 @06:17PM Nvidia Allegedly Hacks Hackers Who Stole Company's Data
Friday February 18, 2022 @04:26PM VMware Horizon Servers Are Under Active Exploit By Iranian State Hackers
Tuesday February 15, 2022 @06:50PM 74% of Ransomware Revenue Goes To Russia-Linked Hackers
Monday January 31, 2022 @06:14PM Academic Journal Claims It Fingerprints PDFs For 'Ransomware,' Not Surveillance
Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:16AM New DeadBolt Ransomware Targets QNAP Devices, Asks 50 BTC For Master Key
Monday January 24, 2022 @06:09PM DHS Warns of Russian Cyberattack On US If It Responds To Ukraine Invasion
Monday January 24, 2022 @05:50PM Hacktivists Say They Hacked Belarus Rail System To Stop Russian Military Buildup
Tuesday January 11, 2022 @06:07PM Hotel Chain Switches To Chrome OS To Recover From Ransomware Attack
Monday December 27, 2021 @06:09PM Shutterfly Services Disrupted By Conti Ransomeware Attack
Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:55PM Second Ransomware Family Exploiting Log4j Spotted In US, Europe
Wednesday November 17, 2021 @05:34PM Russian Ransomware Gangs Start Collaborating With Chinese Hackers
Monday November 08, 2021 @07:23PM REvil: Day of Reckoning For Notorious Cyber Gang
Friday November 05, 2021 @05:09PM N.L. Health-Care Cyberattack Is Worst In Canadian History
Friday November 05, 2021 @02:32AM US Offers $10 Million Bounty For DarkSide Ransomware Operators
Friday October 29, 2021 @05:15PM Hive Ransomware Now Encrypts Linux and FreeBSD Systems
Friday October 29, 2021 @05:10PM Ransomware Has Disrupted Almost 1,000 Schools In the US This Year
Friday October 22, 2021 @07:24PM Sinclair Workers Say TV Channels Are In 'Pandemonium' After Ransomware Attack
Thursday October 21, 2021 @07:12PM Governments Turn Tables On Ransomware Gang REvil By Pushing It Offline
Thursday October 14, 2021 @11:54PM Acer Confirms It Was Hacked Again As Culprits Flaunt 60GB of Stolen Customer Data
Monday October 04, 2021 @05:45PM Ukrainian Cops Cuff Two Over $150 Million Ransomware Gang Allegations, Seize $1.3 Million In Cryptocurrency
Tuesday September 21, 2021 @05:14PM FBI Held Back Ransomware Decryption Key From Businesses To Run Operation Targeting Hackers
Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:41PM Free REvil Ransomware Master Decrypter Released For Past Victims
Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:46PM Ransomware Encrypts South Africa's Entire Department of Justice Network
Tuesday September 07, 2021 @04:50PM Howard University Announces Ransomware Attack, Shuts Down Classes On Tuesday
Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:50PM Healthcare Provider Expected To Lose $106.8 Million Following Ransomware Attack
Wednesday July 07, 2021 @07:55PM Code In Huge Ransomware Attack Written To Avoid Computers That Use Russian, Says New Report
Friday July 02, 2021 @07:09PM REvil Ransomware Hits 200 Companies In MSP Supply-Chain Attack
Monday June 21, 2021 @07:59PM ADATA Suffers 700 GB Data Leak In Ragnar Locker Ransomware Attack
Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:15AM JBS Paid $11 Million In Ransom After Hackers Shut Down Meat Plants
Friday June 04, 2021 @10:45PM Hackers Breached Colonial Pipeline Using Compromised Password
Wednesday June 02, 2021 @11:51PM Russian Cybercriminal Group Was Behind Meat Plant Attack, FBI Says
Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:23PM DarkSide Will Be Back, As Russia, China, Iran Create 'Safe Havens' For Hackers
Friday May 21, 2021 @05:33PM Unprecedented - Cyber Attackers Release Secret Key To Save Irish Health System
Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:19PM Hackers Behind Colonial Pipeline Attack Reportedly Received $90 Million In Bitcoin Before Shutting Down
Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:46PM Colonial Announces Pipeline Restart After Being Shut Down For Five Days Due To Cyberattack
Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:16PM GasBuddy Tops Apple App Store Amid Gas Shortages From Colonial Pipeline Shutdown
Friday March 19, 2021 @09:52PM Russian Man Admits Ransomware Plot Against Tesla In Nevada
Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:31PM CD Projekt Red Hackers Reportedly Sold the 'Cyberpunk 2077' Source Code
Monday September 28, 2020 @04:32PM Healthcare Giant UHS Hit By Ransomware Attack, Sources Say
Monday August 03, 2020 @04:05PM Garmin Reportedly Paid Millions To Obtain Decryption Key, Resolve Recent Ransomware Attack
Monday July 27, 2020 @04:13PM Garmin Begins Recovery From Ransomware Attack
Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:47PM Garmin Services and Production Go Down After Ransomware Attack
Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:36AM New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears
Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:00PM City of Knoxville Shuts Down Network After Ransomware Attack
Friday May 29, 2020 @04:13PM Michigan State University Network Breached In Ransomware Attack
Monday May 11, 2020 @07:54PM Ransomware Hit ATM Giant Diebold Nixdorf
Friday May 08, 2020 @05:28PM Cognizant Expects To Lose Between $50 Million and $70 Million Following Ransomware Attack
Monday April 13, 2020 @04:07PM Ransomware Scumbags Leak Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX Documents After Contractor Refuses To Pay
Monday January 27, 2020 @07:45PM Maryland Bill Would Outlaw Ransomware, Keep Researchers From Reporting Bugs
Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:10PM Trend Micro Set Up a Fake Tech Company and Honeypot To Study Cyber Criminals
Monday January 13, 2020 @05:43PM City of Las Vegas Said It Successfully Avoided Devastating Cyberattack
Monday December 16, 2019 @06:01PM New Jersey's Largest Hospital System Pays Up In Ransomware Attack
Friday December 13, 2019 @05:56PM New Orleans City Government Shuts Off Computers After Cyberattack
Wednesday December 11, 2019 @05:24PM Maze Ransomware Was Behind Pensacola 'Cyber Event,' Florida Officials Say
Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:58PM Unusual New 'PureLocker' Ransomware Is Going After Servers
Friday October 25, 2019 @05:55PM City of Johannesburg Hit by Ransomware, Again
Monday October 07, 2019 @04:17PM Hospitals That Are Turning Away Patients Reportedly Pay Ransomware Attackers
Tuesday October 01, 2019 @04:03PM Ransomware Forces 3 Hospitals To Turn Away All But the Most Critical Patients
Friday September 13, 2019 @04:52PM Giant Entercom Radio Network Gets Ransomwared
Monday September 09, 2019 @06:46PM Thousands of Servers Infected With New Lilocked (Lilu) Ransomware
Friday August 02, 2019 @05:12PM GermanWiper Ransomware Hits Germany Hard, Destroys Files, Asks For Ransom
Monday July 29, 2019 @05:24PM US Files Lawsuit Against Bitcoin Exchange That Helped Launder Ransomware Profits
Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:37PM Louisiana Governor Declares State Emergency After Local Ransomware Outbreak
Friday July 19, 2019 @05:39PM QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit In Ransomware Attack
Friday July 12, 2019 @05:29PM US Mayors Resolve Not To Pay Hackers Over Ransomware Attacks
Friday July 12, 2019 @04:45PM Monroe College Hit With Ransomware, $2 Million Demanded
Monday July 01, 2019 @05:51PM Florida City Fires IT Employee After Paying Ransom Demand Last Week
Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:07PM Second Florida City Pays Giant Ransom To Ransomware Gang In a Week
Friday May 24, 2019 @05:43PM Google Shut Out Baltimore Officials Using Gmail After Ransomware Attack
Monday January 21, 2019 @07:42PM New Phobos Ransomware Exploits Weak Security To Hit Targets Around the World
Wednesday December 12, 2018 @05:53PM Ships Infected With Ransomware, USB Malware, Worms
Wednesday November 28, 2018 @06:36PM Justice Department Indicts Two Iranians Over SamSam Ransomware Attacks
Friday September 21, 2018 @10:52PM Romanian Ransomware Suspect Pleads Guilty To Hacking CCTVs In Washington DC
Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:52AM SamSam Ransomware Crew Made Nearly $6 Million From Ransom Payments
Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:40PM Atlanta City Government Systems Down Due To Ransomware Attack
Monday October 23, 2017 @02:43PM Windows 10's 'Controlled Folder Access' Anti-Ransomware Feature Is Now Live
Friday September 22, 2017 @04:49PM Hackers Using iCloud's Find My iPhone Feature To Remotely Lock Macs, Demand Ransom Payments
Friday August 11, 2017 @07:03PM Russian Group That Hacked DNC Used NSA Attack Code In Attack On Hotels
Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:45PM NotPetya Ransomware Victims Preparing Lawsuit Against Ukrainian Software Firm
Tuesday July 18, 2017 @07:02PM Android Backdoor 'GhostCtrl' Can Silently Record Your Audio, Video and More
Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:52AM Petya Ransomware Authors Demand $250,000 In First Public Statement Since Attack
Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:52PM The Petya Ransomware Is Starting To Look Like a Cyberattack in Disguise
Wednesday June 28, 2017 @06:00PM London Metropolitan Police's 18,000 Windows XP PCs Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen
Wednesday June 28, 2017 @12:55AM Petya Ransomware Outbreak Originated In Ukraine Via Tainted Accounting Software
Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:40PM NSA Links WannaCry To North Korea
Tuesday June 13, 2017 @04:30PM Apple Mac Computers Are Being Targeted By Ransomware, Spyware
Tuesday June 06, 2017 @04:48PM WannaCry Exploit Could Infect Windows 10
Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:54PM Windows XP Computers Were Mostly Immune To WannaCry
Friday May 19, 2017 @03:16PM Almost All WannaCry Victims Were Running Windows 7
Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:47PM Windows XP PCs Infected By WannaCry Can Be Decrypted Without Paying Ransom
Monday May 15, 2017 @07:00PM Disney Chief Bob Iger Says Hackers Claim To Have Stolen Upcoming Movie
Monday May 15, 2017 @05:54PM WannaCry Ransomware Shares Code With North Korean Malware, Says Researchers
Sunday May 14, 2017 @09:37PM Microsoft Blasts Spy Agencies For Leaked Exploits Used By WanaDecrypt0r
Saturday May 13, 2017 @03:03AM Wana Decryptor Ransomware Using NSA Exploit Leaked By Shadow Brokers To Spread Ransomware Worldwide
Saturday May 13, 2017 @12:06AM 'Accidental Hero' Finds Kill Switch To Stop Spread of Ransomware Cyberattack
Friday April 07, 2017 @10:14PM Ransomware Asks For High Score Instead of Money
Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:27PM Gigabyte Firmware Bugs Allow the Installation of BIOS/UEFI Ransomware
Friday February 24, 2017 @04:50PM World's Largest Spam Botnet Adds DDoS Feature
Monday February 13, 2017 @04:19PM Ransomware Insurance Is Coming
Friday February 03, 2017 @04:42AM Ransomware Completely Shuts Down Ohio Town Government
Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:41PM Police Department Loses Years Worth of Evidence In Ransomware Incident
Friday January 27, 2017 @11:36PM Remote Attackers Can Force Samsung Galaxy Devices Into Never-Ending Reboot Loop
Monday January 23, 2017 @04:54PM Ransomware Infects All St Louis Public Library Computers
Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:13PM Over 1,800 MongoDB Databases Held For Ransom By Mysterious Attacker
Tuesday January 03, 2017 @05:12PM Koolova Ransomware Decrypts For Free If You Read Two Articles About Ransomware
Wednesday December 28, 2016 @04:53PM Destructive KillDisk Malware Turns Into Ransomware
Wednesday December 21, 2016 @07:11PM Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Region Where Russia Is Invading Ukraine
Wednesday December 14, 2016 @05:56PM Most Businesses Pay Ransomware Demands, IBM Finds
Tuesday November 29, 2016 @06:42PM Muni System Hacker Hit Others By Scanning For Year-Old Java Vulnerability
Friday November 25, 2016 @03:46PM Locky Ransomware Uses Decoy Image Files To Ambush Facebook, LinkedIn Accounts
Sunday August 28, 2016 @01:25AM New Ransomware Poses As A Windows Update
Saturday August 20, 2016 @08:50PM New Linux Trojan Is A DDoS Tool, a Bitcoin Miner, and Web Ransomware
Friday July 29, 2016 @10:51PM Cisco Finds $34 Million Ransomware Industry
Wednesday July 13, 2016 @09:05PM Windows Malware Poses As Ransomware, Just Deletes Victims' Files
Saturday July 09, 2016 @01:26AM Researchers Develop A Way To Stop Ransomware By Watching The Filesystem
Wednesday June 29, 2016 @11:40PM Congressman Wants Ransomware Attacks To Trigger Breach Notifications
Saturday June 25, 2016 @11:07AM Crypto Ransomware Attacks Have Jumped 500% In The Last Year
Saturday June 25, 2016 @01:34AM NASCAR Team Pays Ransomware Fee To Recover Files Worth $2 Million
Sunday June 19, 2016 @03:58PM New Ransomware Written Entirely In JavaScript
Sunday June 12, 2016 @04:02AM Ransomware Thieves Cost Canada University C$20,000 In Bitcoin
Tuesday June 07, 2016 @02:59AM 'Alarming' Rise In Ransomware Tracked
Monday June 06, 2016 @06:52PM Drive-By Exploits Pushing Ransomware Now Able To Bypass Microsoft EMET
Wednesday June 01, 2016 @05:31PM TeamViewer Servers Go Down, Users Believe They Are Hacked
Monday May 30, 2016 @06:54PM Microsoft Warns of ZCryptor Ransomware With Self-Propagation Features
Saturday May 21, 2016 @07:22PM Ransomware Adds DDoS Attacks To Annoy More People
Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:49PM TeslaCrypt Ransomware Maker Shuts Down, Releases Master Key
Wednesday April 13, 2016 @12:32AM Jigsaw Ransomware Deletes Your Files If You Don't Pay Or When You Reboot Your PC
Friday March 25, 2016 @04:34PM Petya Ransomware Uses DOS-Level Lock Screen, Prevents OS Boot Up
Friday March 25, 2016 @01:47AM Kentucky Hospital Calls State of Emergency In Hack Attack
Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:04PM 5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories From the Cybersecurity Frontlines
Wednesday March 16, 2016 @10:55AM Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NY Times, BBC, AOL
Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:40AM Security Firms Say Chinese Hackers Behind US Ransomware Attacks
Tuesday March 08, 2016 @08:45PM KeRanger Mac Ransomware Based On Linux Forebear, Not Windows
Monday March 07, 2016 @03:33PM Apple Has Shut Down the First Fully-Functional Mac OS X Ransomware
Sunday March 06, 2016 @05:28PM Transmission BitTorrent App Contained Malware
Saturday February 20, 2016 @12:14PM US School Agrees To Pay $8,500 To Get Rid Of Ransomware
Wednesday February 17, 2016 @10:53PM L.A. Hospital Pays Off Ransomware Thieves To Reclaim Its Network