It's also moving away from encryption to pure data-theft extortion tactics, in cyberattacks that have so far bagged at least 116 victims, researchers have found.

Data extortion ransomware schemes continue to explode in popularity, with new groups arising on a monthly basis and dozens of new victim organizations every week.

In early November, the notorious ALPHV ransomware gang, also known as BlackCat, attempted a first-of-its-kind extortion tactic: weaponizing the U.S. government’s new data breach disclosure rules ...

According to Cisco Talos’s incident response telemetry, incidents of data theft and extortion that did not involve any form of data encryption or deployment of a ransomware grew by 25% from 1 ...

As ransomware continues to grow as a threat, the continuing question is - should companies pay the ransom? One group has been actively trying to convince companies not to pay. Ransomware recovery ...

However, Hunters appears to be shifting its operations, dropping the encryption part of the equation and focusing purely on data exfiltration and extortion, according to researchers with threat ...

However, said the Australians, in 2023 BianLian started to shift to encryption-based extortion, in which systems are left intact and victims are warned of financial, business and legal ...

CORK, Ireland, August 20, 2024--Vaultree: Revolutionizing Data Encryption – Defining the Future of Encrypted ML, AI and FHE ...

WPA3 Encryption: Ensure your router is set to use WPA3 encryption, the latest standard for Wi-Fi network security. This can usually be selected in the router’s settings menu.