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City of St. Paul confirms ransomware attack
ST PAUL, Minn. — The City of St. Paul confirmed both that it was the victim of a ransomware attack and that it has refused to ...
78% of Companies Targeted With Ransomware; Manufacturing Hit Hardest
Along with IT and Telecoms, Manufacturing was one of the hardest hit industries, with companies paying large sums to ...
Akira ransomware abuses CPU tuning tool to disable Microsoft Defender
Akira ransomware is abusing a legitimate Intel CPU tuning driver to turn off Microsoft Defender in attacks from security ...
Royal and BlackSuit ransomware gangs hit over 450 US companies
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the cybercrime gang behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware operations ...
Thousands to report in for password change after St. Paul ransomware attack
As the process begins to “wake up” the city’s computers, the mayor’s office has confirmed that hackers demanded a ransom from ...
Digital assault that shut down St. Paul services was a ransomware attack, city officials say
St. Paul officials say the cyberattack that has wrought havoc on its online services for weeks was a ransomware attack, a ...
US government says BlackSuit and Royal ransomware gangs hit hundreds of major firms before shutdown
BlackSuit, a ransomware group and a successor to the Royal gang, managed to compromise 450 organizations in the United States ...