Graham Cluley reports: It appears that Costa Rica isn’t the only country making headlines as it battles cyber attackers. For the past week and a half, Greenland’s health service has reportedly been struggling to recover from a cyber attack that has crippled its IT systems, causing long waiting times and forcing doctors to resort to using pen and...
Nader Issa and Lauren FitzPatrick report: A massive data breach has exposed four years’ worth of records of almost 500,000 Chicago Public Schools students and nearly 60,000 employees, district officials told principals Friday. The attack targeted a company that has a no-bid contract with the district for teacher evaluations and involved basic student and...
Lawrence Abrams reports: The notorious Conti ransomware gang has officially shut down their operation, with infrastructure taken offline and team leaders told that the brand is no more. This news comes from Advanced Intel’s Yelisey Boguslavskiy, who tweeted this afternoon that the gang’s internal infrastructure was turned off. While public-facing ‘Conti News’ data leak and the...
Attacks on small to medium-sized medical entities continue, as this week’s breach posts unfortunately attest. Today, Vice Society added Atlanta Perinatal Associates in Georgia to its leak site. As they have done in the past, Vice Society did not just add the medical practice with a warning or threat. When Vice Society adds an...
As seen on Twitter: #Conti Officially DisCONTInued Today the official website of Conti #Ransomware was shut down, marking the end of this notorious crime group; it is truly a historic day in the #intelligence community! Look forward to today’s @AdvIntel with extended [email protected]_Intel pic.twitter.com/gMSXhlHVSb — Yelisey Boguslavskiy (@y_advintel) May 19, 2022 NOTE:...
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Stavros Atlamazoglou reports: … Russian hackers went after a variety of Ukrainian targets in the private and public sectors, but one cyber weapon aimed at a specific military target spilled over and affected tens of thousands of devices outside Ukraine. A few hours before the Russian invasion began on February 24, Russian hackers launched...
WTVG reports Washington Local School District in Toledo, Ohio has been hit by a cyberattack that has disrupted much of its communication avenues including phones, internet, email, wifi networks, and Google classroom. Read more at WTVG, although they are only in beginning stages of investigating and responding to the incident.
Cybercrimeinfo.nl writes: Statistics Netherlands (CBS), in collaboration with the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), has conducted an exploratory study into ransomware attacks in Dutch government services and companies. The researchers looked at, among other things, the timeline and costs of attacks with ransomware. Due to the sensitivity of the collected data, the report has not been...
DisCONTInued: The End of Conti’s Brand Marks New Chapter For Cybercrime Landscape