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More than $500,000 in losses has been reported by over 50% of power and energy, chemical manufacturing, and mining and materials industry organizations while ransoms exceeding $500,000 were most likely to be paid by healthcare entities, a Claroty survey showed.

Insurance firms have been urged by Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technologies Anne Neuberger to cease policies encouraging ransomware-hit organizations to provide extortion payments amid increasingly severe intrusions around the world.

More widespread of the addressed bugs was a logic issue, tracked as CVE-2024-44204, which could prompt Apple's new VoiceOver feature to read credentials saved within the recently unveiled Passwords app.

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Investigation into the attack, which no ransomware operation has claimed yet, is still underway, according to Highline, which noted that student and staff device re-imaging and network password resets will commence next week.

Attackers were able to exfiltrate individuals' names, Social Security numbers, and other personal details as a result of the incident but there has been no evidence suggesting the misuse of impacted data, said UMG in a filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General.

After shutting down its systems on September 20, MoneyGram issued an email update five days later stating that it has since restored most of its operations with the assistance of CrowdStrike and other third-party cybersecurity experts, as well as U.S. law enforcement.

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