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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Wednesday offered up to $10 million for information on the "Blackcat" ransomware gang who hit the UnitedHealth Group's tech unit and snarled insurance payments across America.

By James Pearson, Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. and British officials on Monday filed charges, imposed sanctions, and called out Beijing over a sweeping cyberespionage campaign that allegedly hit millions of people – including lawmakers, academics, journalists and more. Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic accused the hacking group nicknamed “APT31”…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. and British officials on Monday filed charges, imposed sanctions, and accused Beijing of a sweeping cyberespionage campaign that allegedly hit millions of people including lawmakers, academics and journalists, and companies including defense contractors. Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic nicknamed the hacking group Advanced Persistent Threat 31 or "APT31", calling it an arm of China's Ministry of State Security. Officials reeled off a laundry lis...

Healthcare providers across the United States are struggling to get paid following the week-long ransomware outage at a key tech unit of UnitedHealth Group, with some smaller providers saying they... -February 29, 2024 at 06:09 am EST - MarketScreener

In a message posted to, and then quickly deleted from their darknet site, the hackers blamed for striking the UnitedHealth Group said on Wednesday they stole millions of sensitive records,...

(Reuters) - Credit Rating agency Moody's said Friday that the recently reported hack against UnitedHealth Group was "credit negative" for the company. The agency cited potential "financial and reputational impacts" of the hack, which reportedly occ...

Credit Rating agency Moodys said Friday that the recently reported hack against UnitedHealth Group was credit negative for the company....

U.S. cyber watchdog agency CISA says it is working with AT&T to understand the cause of outage that disrupted calls and text messages as well as emergency services in major cities on Thursday. ...

"More than simply replacing an existing algorithm with a new one, we rebuilt the iMessage cryptographic protocol from the ground up," an Apple blog post published on Wednesday reads. "It will fully replace the existing protocol within all supported conversations this year."

By Christopher Bing and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple is rolling out an upgrade to its iMessage texting platform to defend against future encryption-breaking technologies. The new protocol, known as PQ3, is another sign that U.S. tech...