Posts Tagged ‘rhysida’
September 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup
This September 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup covers a month in which ransomware kept disrupting public services and critical infrastructure, while flaws in widely used network appliances created serious exposures of their own. Attacks hit German government and utility networks, and a misconfigured database exposed 220 million Vietnam-linked travel records. Below are the month’s key cyberattacks and…
Read MoreTerminalFix ClickFix Attack Campaign Hits Germany
A TerminalFix ClickFix attack campaign has compromised a German state institution’s network, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) confirmed on September 4. TerminalFix is an evolution of the ClickFix social-engineering technique: a fake CAPTCHA tricks a user into pasting a command, but instead of the old single-machine Run-dialog trick, it opens Windows Terminal and…
Read MoreBerlin Ransomware Attack: State Refuses to Pay
A Berlin ransomware attack has put Germany’s capital in the position every public-sector CISO dreads: a confirmed data breach, a seven-figure ransom demand, and an election three weeks away. The ransomware group Rhysida claims it stole 5.79 terabytes from Berlin’s state administrative network and is demanding 30 Bitcoin, roughly €2.05 million, with a seven-day auction…
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