Verity Health Systems was targeted in an email phishing scam that resulted in the unauthorized release of employee information, including names and Social Security Numbers.
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued a Public Service Announcement regarding the growing number of individuals who have been filing reports with the center.
The computer network of the Pinal County Attorney's Office in Arizona has been hit with CryptoLocker, effectively shutting down part of the agency's system.
Trustwave has found a zero-day exploit which it said affects all versions of Microsoft's OS Windows, all the way from Windows 2000 up to a fully patched version of Windows 10.
As business executives fret over how easily companies continue to fall victim to ransomware, they may actually be missing the bigger picture: that the attackers behind the scourge could actually do a lot worse damage if they wanted.