Machine Translation of a report on an attack on an Italian health system: Ulss 6 Euganea under hacker attack. During the night, a cyber attack occurred which resulted in the blocking of most of the servers, compromising their usability. «We are working very quickly with all our IT technicians in order to restore the services...
On November 23, DataBreaches.net reported that Avos Locker threat actors had added Beaverhead County High School in Montana to their leak site. At the time, this site reported: From their listing, Avos Locker is clearly aware that this is a tiny school district with only a few hundred students and less than two dozen...
Alek Lewis reports: The Riverhead Central School District was hit by a ransomware attack this morning, shutting down the district’s computer and technology infrastructure for what officials said could be several days. The district sent out a statement this morning at 8:48 a.m. on their social media alerting parents to what was then described...
In April, CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield posted a notice on its website concerning a ransomware attack in January. The health plan’s announcement reports that the preliminary assessments suggested that: the attack was limited to CHPDC. Early analysis also indicates that members of other CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield companies, the Federal Employees Program (FEP) and...
Jakob Emerson reports: Sangamon County Animal Control (SCAC) is embroiled in a community controversy once again. SCAC is responsible for the sharing of uncensored photos of Illinois driver’s licenses to the internet in the place of photos of animals available for adoption at the facility. Anyone in the world with an internet connection could see photos,...
ATLANTA – Durrell Tyler and DeShawn Johnson have been sentenced for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft related to their use of stolen identities to open accounts with credit card companies and various retailers. “Criminals using dark net markets to steal identities wreak havoc on the lives of individuals and compromise the financial...
On November 10-11, Kisters AG in Germany was hit by a ransomware attack. Because the firm is a critical infrastructure supplier for energy systems and with the potential for downstream compromise, this one has raised significant concerns. The following are some translated snippets from energie.blog, which has been providing updates on the attack: Update:...
Phil Muncaster reports: Researchers have recorded a 935% year-on-year increase in double extortion attacks, with data from over 2300 companies posted onto ransomware extortion sites. Group-IB’s Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2021/2022 report covers the period from the second half of 2020 to the first half of 2021. During that time, an “unholy alliance” of initial access brokers...
Josh Layton reports: Hundreds of patients’ confidential details were found dumped in an unlocked filing cabinet left outside an unused doctors’ surgery. The sensitive personal files were reference cards that included individuals’ names, dates of birth, addresses and NHS numbers. They were left for days in a doorway among piles of leaves outside the...
Catalin Cimpanu reports: An Oregon man and a former employee of Ubiquiti Networks was arrested and charged today with hacking the company’s servers, stealing gigabytes of information, and then attempting to extort his employer for $2 million when Ubiquiti began investigating the breach. The suspect, arraigned in a courtroom earlier today, was identified as Nickolas...
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