PYMNTS.com August 30, 2024
Contemporary businesses operate in an era marked by surging cyberthreats and data breaches.
That’s according to a Thursday (Aug. 29) joint cybersecurity advisory by the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other federal agencies that revealed ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group RansomHub breached over 200 victims in the United States alone over the past six months.
The volume of attacks represents nearly a data breach a day since February.
Per the advisory, RansomHub and its affiliates have “encrypted and exfiltrated data from at least 210 victims representing the water and wastewater, information technology, government services and facilities, healthcare and public health, emergency services, food and agriculture, financial services, commercial facilities, critical manufacturing, transportation, and communications critical infrastructure sectors.”
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