Total on-chain ransomware payments fell 8% YoY to $820M in 2025, despite a record 50% rise in claimed victims; the median payment grew 368% YoY to nearly $60K
Total on-chain ransomware payments fell 8% YoY to $820M in 2025, despite a record 50% rise in claimed victims; the median payment grew 368% YoY to nearly $60K
TL;DR — Ransomware payments stagnated despite record attacks claimed. Total on-chain ransomware payments fell by approximately 8% …
Two ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks
group demanded up to $10 million from each victim Jonathan Greig / The Record : Ransomware responders plead guilty to using ALPHV in attacks on US organizations Deeba Ahmed / Hackread : 2 US Cybersecu...
Sources: UK companies tell the UK that a planned ban on paying ransoms to ransomware gangs is unlikely to stop attacks and could result in services collapsing
Kieran Smith / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Greg Palmer . Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social LinkedIn: Greg Palmer : Georgina Kon and I spoke with Kieran Smith from the Financial Times about the...
ABI: UK insurers paid out £197M+ in cyber claims in 2024, up from £60M in 2023; malware and ransomware-related claims were 51% of the total, up from 32% in 2023
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US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware
The alleged cybersecurity turncoats attacked at least five U.S. companies while working for their respective employers, officials said.
A look at the Crylock ransomware scheme, orchestrated by a Russian couple who targeted as many as 400,000 victims and earned €64M+ in bitcoin over eight years
a knife, bought with the same email address used to rent the suspicious servers discovered by investigators, and a pair of plane tickets he had bought for his parents — on.ft.com/4hhtmGd
Sources: a ransomware attack is disrupting US state and local borrowers' ability to post debt documents on the $4.3T municipal bond market's MuniOS platform
A ransomware attack is disrupting state and local borrowers' ability to post debt documents on the $4.3 trillion municipal-bond market's main distribution platform.
Russian-speaking ransomware gang Qilin claims responsibility for attacking Japan-based Asahi and stealing ~27GB of data, including financial docs and contracts
A cohort of Russian-speaking hackers known as Qilin has claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack that hobbled Asahi Group …
Oracle urges customers to patch an E-Business Suite vulnerability that cybercriminals are exploiting; Google's Mandiant says the Clop hacking group exploited it
AWAITING ANALYSIS — This CVE record has been marked for NVD enrichment efforts. CrowdStrike : CrowdStrike Identifies Campaign Targeting Oracle E-Business Suite via Zero-Day Vulnerability (now tracke...