Browsing: Ransomware

The BYOD ransomware group has allegedly breached the systems of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission(HHSC), claiming to have stolen sensitive personal and medical information belonging to approximately two million Texas residents. The cybercriminal group reportedly made the announcement through its official social media channels, raising concerns about the security of healthcare databases and…

Sophos’ sixth annual State of Ransomware in Retail report found that 62% of ransomware attacks against retail organizations resulted in data encryption in 2026, up from 48% the previous year and above the 56% average across all sectors surveyed.

Ransomware will be revolutionized in 2027 due to the influence of AI, with threat actors poised to become more innovative, according TrendAI’s director of cybercrime research, Bob McArdle.

Proofpoint finds nearly 45% of organizations lack confidence in ransomware defenses despite stronger security measures, highlighting ongoing risks for MSPs.

What’s at stake: Storm has listed five U.S. banks holding about $6.1 billion in assets, plus Insight Credit Union, and four of the banks have not publicly confirmed or denied an incident.

Sixth annual report, based on 217 IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries, finds known security gaps and exploited vulnerabilities weigh heavily on retail—and calls for defenses that respond as one.

Attackers stole files holding the names and Social Securitynumbers of 16,069 people from a New York community bank this summer, and the ransomware group that claimed the attack has named five other U.S. financial institutions as victims in a recent wave of attacks.

GhostFrame is a previously undocumented post-exploitation framework that gives threat actors extensive control over compromised VMware ESXi environments. Once an attacker gains root-level access to an ESXi host, GhostFrame provides a single interface to access virtual machines running on the hypervisor, harvest credentials, execute commands, and pivot deeper into victim networks. Insikt Group identified GhostFrame…

A ransomware attack discovered Monday at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee appears to have compromised vast amounts of student and employee personal data, prompting the university to take several digital services intermittently offline as it continues responding to the incident.

Add preferred source Vanderbilt University ordered students and employees to shut down school devices and disconnect from campus Wi-Fi on Monday while it investigated what appears to be a ransomware attack. A group calling itself BYOD claimed responsibility in a ransom note, saying it took Social Security numbers, names, emails, phone numbers and student and…