More than two weeks after a cyberattack brought down Scripps Health's network, some local cities are taking preventative steps to help protect their businesses.
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Ransomware groups have always taken a more-is-more approach. If a victim pays a ransom and then goes back to business as usualâhit them again. Or don t just encrypt a target s systems; steal their data first, so you can threaten to leak it if they don t pay up. The latest escalation? Ransomware hackers who encrypt a victim s data twice at the same time.
Double-encryption attacks have happened before, usually stemming from two separate ransomware gangs compromising the same victim at the same time. But antivirus company Emsisoft says it is aware of dozens of incidents in which the same actor or group intentionally layers two types of ransomware on top of each other.
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Gas Shortages Continue Despite Colonial Pipeline Restart
On 5/14/21 at 4:50 AM EDT
Gas shortages are continuing to affect several states despite the resumption in supply to the ransomware attack-hit Colonial Pipeline, with a full return to service not expected until at least Sunday.
Although operations to all markets resumed Thursday on the pipeline, stations remained out of action in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
According to the monitoring platform GasBuddy, which tracks what stations have limited or no supply, multiple sites in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia have yet to resume full service.
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