This was published on September 10 by Yonkers Times: Yonkers Rising has learned that the City of Yonkers has been the victim of a ransomware attack and for the period of the past five days, City Hall and its employees have been without their computers. We have also been told by city officials with...
Natalie Weber reports: A 28-year-old Ukrainian man has been extradited to the United States and indicted after authorities say he listed the login credentials for more than 6,000 compromised computers for sale on the dark web — many of them from Tampa Bay — and gained more than $80,000 in illegal profits. According to...
In August, threat actors calling themselves AvosLocker announced that they had attacked Moorfields NHS UK & Dubai. DataBreaches.net’s investigation at that point indicated that the data they provided as proof came from the Dubai hospital and did not involve any UK personnel or patients. In a statement to this site, Moorfields confirmed that there...
Zack Whittaker reports: Olympus said in a brief statement Sunday that it is “currently investigating a potential cybersecurity incident” affecting its European, Middle East and Africa computer network. But according to a person with knowledge of the incident, Olympus is recovering from a ransomware attack that began in the early morning of September...
“Full ICU at Missouri Delta Medical Center, workers scramble to keep up with COVID-19 surge,” a headline informed us earlier this week. And if they weren’t struggling enough already, it appears that Missouri Delta Medical Center (MDMC) might also be dealing with a ransomware attack by Hive threat actors. So far, however, MDMC has...
In July, DataBreaches.net reported that threat actors calling themself “Grief” claimed to have attacked NY-based Rehabilitation Support Services (RSS), an agency that provides services to more than 3,000 individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders each year. Grief claimed to have exfiltrated 4 GB of data from RSS, and offered some small proof of claim....
On August 30, HHS added Queen Creek Medical Center d/b/a Desert Wells Family Medicine in Arizona to its public breach tool. The entity had reported that 35,000 patients were impacted by a breach involving a hack of the network. We now have more details on that incident available thanks to a public disclosure of...
Marco A. De Felice reports: An affiliate of the AvosLocker ransomware group extorts $ 85,000 in bitcoin from a company thanks to a known vulnerability in FortiGate VPN ( CVE-2018-13379 ). A vulnerability that the American multinational had corrected THANKS TO AN UPDATE released IN NOVEMBER 2019 . Those who have not updated their systems are a small company...
Wassayos Ngamkham has some interesting follow-up reporting on the recent attack on Phetchabun Hospital. That hospital and Bhumirajanagarindra Kidney Institute Hospital, both in Thailand, have been recently attacked, with the latter attack interfering with patient services. The Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB)’s preliminary investigation reportedly: showed that a group of Indian hackers was behind...
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