The Week in Ransomware - January 12th 2024 - Targeting homeowners' data

This weekly intelligence roundup reports an escalation in ransomware activity and related malware campaigns: major incidents include ransomware attacks and data exposures at U.S. mortgage firms (loanDepot, Mr. Cooper), title insurers (First American, Fidelity National Financial), hospital networks (Capital Health), and other organizations (Toronto Zoo, Tigo Business). The report also notes active ransomware families (LockBit, BlackCat, BlackBasta, Akira, Mimic, Phobos, STOP, etc.), newly observed file extensions and ransom-note indicators, threats of double-extortion, targeted MSSQL infection activity, researcher findings (PikaBot usage), and a law-enforcement-backed recovery of decryption keys for a Babuk-derived variant.