The Week in Ransomware - February 2nd 2024 - No honor among thieves

This weekly intelligence roundup details continued ransomware activity affecting healthcare and other sectors, including operational impacts on hospitals, multiple ransomware groups (LockBit, ALPHV, Play, Akira, Cactus, Chaos, Phobos, etc.), new ransomware variants and extensions, data leak sites, law enforcement takedowns, and technical observations such as exploitation of CVE-2020-3259, abuse of MS-SQL BCP, intermittent encryption decryptors, and various IOCs (file extensions and ransom note filenames).