Law enforcement is suspected to be behind the recent outage of ALPHV ransomware gang’s websites. The negotiation and data leak sites, as well as the Tor negotiation URLs, have been down for over 30 hours.
The government council for Scotland’s Western Isles said it is dealing with an IT outage that forced it to provide temporary phone numbers for services. The Comhairle nan Eilean Siar — which governs the more than 470,000 people living on the chain of islands on Scotland’s western coast — said access to the IT system […]
The Associated Press news website experienced an outage that appeared to be consistent with a denial-of-service attack, a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and knock it offline. Attempting to visit the apnews.com site starting Tuesday afternoon would load the home page, although links to individual […]
Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident” and, while they had not provided an explanation as of Wednesday, experts say it has all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack. The disruption has left attorneys unable to search online records and […]