FBI Warns of Extortionists Stealing Plastic Surgery Data for Ransom

By Waqas Cybercriminals are using phishing emails and text messages to steal sensitive data from plastic surgery clinics and offices, such as patient records and financial information. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI Warns of Extortionists Stealing Plastic Surgery Dat...

Western Digital Confirms Customer Data Stolen by Hackers in March Breach

Digital storage giant Western Digital confirmed that an "unauthorized third party" gained access to its systems and stole personal information belonging to the company's online store customers. "This information included customer names, billing and shipping addresses, email addresses and telephon...

Ransom DDoS Enters its Fourth Wave

Extortionists target industries with most to lose from an outage Cybercriminals continue to target organizations threatening Denial of Service DDoS attacks in exchange for a ransom payment, traditionally demanded in bitcoin BTC. And it seems that no matter how many times these ransom threat cycle...

BlackMatter Strikes Iowa Farmers Cooperative, Demands $5.9M Ransom

A ransomware group believed to be the latest incarnation of the infamous DarkSide cybergang is being blamed for taking out a farmers’ cooperative online network, with extortionists demanding $5.9 million in ransom. The group BlackMatter is credited for the attack on an Iowa collective of farmers...

Major Global Ransom Denial of Service Campaign Continues Rising Trend in Global DDoS Attacks

Extortionists Claim Connection to Notorious Threat Actor Groups In recent weeks Imperva has become aware of a considerable increase in the number of serious Ransom Denial of Service RDoS threats, with extortion campaigns targeting thousands of large commercial organizations globally, not least th...

Ransomware Attack Takes Down Toll Group Systems, Again

Australian transportation and logistics giant Toll Group has been hit by a ransomware attack – for the second time in three months. The company said a relatively new form of ransomware known as Nefilim had targeted its systems. Toll Group, a subsidiary of Japan Post Holdings, is a freight and...

Bomb Threat Bitcoin Demands Cause Disruption, Evacuations

UPDATE What looks to be an alarming email scam is making the rounds, with extortionists asking for Bitcoin payment in return for not detonating a set of bombs. Multiple law-enforcement agencies in cities across the U.S. responded to calls from recipients on Thursday, concluding that the threats a...