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Bangkok Airways, which employees more than 3,000 people in 11 countries and has an annual revenue of over $685 million, has announced that they were the victim of a ransomware attack. The LockBit extortion gang is claiming responsibility.

Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana on August 29 as a Category 4 storm. Ida was strong enough to temporarily reverse the flow of the Mississippi River as it brought as much as 2 feet of rain in some areas, and a 7-foot storm surge.

Even as the famed Ragnarok ransomware gang shuts down operations, LockFile ransomware has emerged from the shadows, taking advantage of vulnerabilities like PetitPotam and ProxyShell.

In a first for the FBI, their Cyber Division has released a FLASH alert to warn about a ransomware affiliate. The cybercriminals in question are the OnePercent Group, which has operated since at least November 2020 and has ties to the REvil, Maze, and Egregor extortion gangs.

A new backdoor under active development by the FIN8 cybercrime group has been identified following a failed attack on an unnamed U.S. financial institution.

A bug in Internet Explorer is being exploited by InkySquid — an advanced persistent threat group with ties to North Korea — to launch watering hole attacks.

The Northeast United States has been inundated with rain from Tropical Storm Henri, causing mass flooding and power outages.