WashingtonSafePay ransomware hit 600 organisations since 2024, FBI says.
SafePay’s Conduent attack disrupted Medicaid, child support, food assistance and tolls across the US.
Intruders guess passwords, exploit known flaws and phish, then use legitimate tools such as AnyDesk to move and disable defences.
Its leak site lists dozens of German companies and government bodies across Latin America and the US.
How each outlet framed it
- The Record leans critical
- lists CVE-2020-3259 and CVE-2023-20269 among the exploited flaws and details password resets to lock out victims
Sources: The Record