No honor among ransomware criminals

The article reviews the BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware incident affecting Change Healthcare, where affiliates used BlackCat’s tooling, a reported ~$22M payment was involved, and disputes between affiliates and the operator—combined with the operator’s apparent shutdown—left the victim struggling to restore operations; the piece uses this event to argue for stronger risk management and adoption of frameworks like NIST CSF 2.0 to improve ransomware readiness.