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Danish Cloud Hosting Provider, CloudNordic, Loses All Client Data After Ransomware Attack

Aug 24, 2023

On Friday 8/18/23, Danish cloud hosting provider, CloudNordic, was exposed to a ransomware attack. Here's what they had to say about being hacked: For customers in CloudNordic Unfortunately, during the night of Friday 18-8-2023 at 04:00, CloudNordic was exposed to a ra...

Danish Cloud Hosting Provider, CloudNordic, Loses All Client Data After Ransomware Attack

Here Come the RackSpace Lawsuits

raindog308

Dec 17, 2022

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"That Rackspace offered opaque updates for days, then admitted to a ransomware event without further customer assistance is outrageous," according to one attorney. Class-action lawsuits against Rackspace are popping up around the country.

Internap Loses Customer Data, Shrugs, Doesn't Apologize

raindog308

Oct 04, 2022

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"We lost your data. It's your problem. OKTHXBYE - Internap."

Internap Loses Customer Data, Shrugs, Doesn't Apologize

This Week's Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

raindog308

Aug 29, 2022

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Check out this sentence: "For the author, this business model enables them to scale their earnings from their software with less risk." I slightly modified the original, but we're not talking about a...

This Week's Initial Ransomware Offering (IRO) Calendar

Why It May Be Illegal to Pay Ransomeware and Why a Ban on Payments Won't Work

raindog308

Jul 19, 2022

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If your organization's data is being held for ransom by hackers, should you pay up? The universal consensus is that you shouldn't because it encourages criminals. But an earlier question needs to be...

Why It May Be Illegal to Pay Ransomeware and Why a Ban on Payments Won't Work

log4Shell Vulnerability: "Worst Hack in History"

raindog308

Dec 14, 2021

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Vulnerabilities don't get much worse than cases where typing the right characters into a chat box gives you remote access to the world's Minecraft servers. Whoops. It's been termed the worst hack in...

Insurers Tire of Paying Ransom to Cyber Crooks

raindog308

Jul 20, 2021

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Loss ratios in the cyber insurance world have skyrocketed in recent years - surging 400% year over year. They have hit 70% of paid premiums, which some industry commentators are saying is unsustainab...