Pennsylvania pharma giant West Pharmaceutical Services is scrambling to restore systems impacted by a ransomware attack last week. The incident, the company says in an incident notice, occurred on May 4 and prompted the “proactive shutdown and isolation of affected… Read More "West Pharmaceutical Services Hit by Disruptive Ransomware Attack"
A ransomware group is attempting to extort the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, claiming that it stole 8 terabytes of data from the company, including schematics and project details from customers including Dell, Google, Apple, and Nvidia. Foxconn did not immediately… Read More "Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever"
The RansomHouse ransomware group has taken credit for the recent attack on the cybersecurity firm Trellix. The Trellix hack came to light this week when the company announced on its website that part of its source code repository had been… Read More "Ransomware Group Takes Credit for Trellix Hack"
Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of schools across the United States.… Read More "The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle"
The Iran-linked APT actor MuddyWater has been observed performing an intrusion masquerading as a ransomware attack, Rapid7 reports. As part of the intrusion observed in early 2026, the attackers relied on social engineering for initial access and performed operations typically… Read More "Iranian APT Intrusion Masquerades as Chaos Ransomware Attack"
A Latvian member of the Karakurt ransomware gang was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison in the US for his involvement in extorting victims. The individual, Deniss Zolotarjovs, 35, of Latvia, was arrested in Georgia in December 2023 and extradited… Read More "Karakurt Ransomware Negotiator Sentenced to Prison"
Two cybersecurity experts from the United States have been sentenced to prison over charges related to their role in ransomware attacks. Ryan Goldberg of Georgia and Kevin Martin of Texas were each given a 4-year prison sentence after they pleaded… Read More "Two US Security Experts Sentenced to Prison for Helping Ransomware Gang"
South Carolina-based healthcare provider Sandhills Medical Foundation has disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 170,000 individuals. Sandhills Medical said in a data security incident notice on its website that it discovered a ransomware attack on May 8, 2025. It has… Read More "Sandhills Medical Says Ransomware Breach Affects 170,000"
Cryptographic attacks are methods or techniques by which an intruder exploits the cryptographic system’s weakness to derive the plaintext from the ciphertext, recover the encryption keys, or violate the integrity of the data. Understanding cryptographic attacks is important in the… Read More "Overview of Cryptographic Attacks"
