While Kaseya clients and their clients got some welcome help in the past few days when Kaseya announced that they had a universal decryptor go give clients — a decryptor that they claim they did not pay anyone in any way to obtain — there are are still other victims of REvil struggling. Kartikay Mehrotra…
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Florida Heart Associates ransomware attack in May still impacting services and care
A May, 2021 ransomware incident impacting Florida Heart Associates was added to HHS’s breach tool this month. But what the tool doesn’t show was the significant impact to the practice’s functioning and patient care. A story on Fox4 in Florida reports that the owners refused to pay an unreported ransom demand and did get control…
Unhacked: 121 Tools Against Ransomware On A Single Website
Europol has issued a press release about No More Ransom web site and its value in helping victims. You can read the statistics on Europol’s site, but here’s an image from the release: Read the full press release here. A new No More Ransom website has been launched to mark the project’s fifth year. Modern and…
First came the ransomware attacks, now come the lawsuits
Gerrit De Vynck reports: … In a world where everything runs on computers, these attacks can cause havoc. Hospitals have had to postpone surgeries. In Southern Maryland, Leonardtown was hit by the sprawling Kaseya IT software hack and lost 17 of its 19 computers, forcing it to stop billing residents for electricity and blocking paychecks…
WV: Prestera Mental Health Center reports an incident — but is it really a new one?
On July 20, Prestera Mental Health Center posted a notice about what they describe as a “recent” incident. Their notice, which has been picked up by other sites, states, in part: “What Happened? On or about April 1, 2021, Prestera Center discovered that information related to certain individuals was potentially accessible to an unknown actor…
Inside Forkbombo, the dreaded Kenyan cybercrime gang
Brian Wasuna reports: When financial institutions in Kenya started recording increased cyber-attacks in 2010, it was believed the country’s detectives would easily stamp out the crime. Back then, most cybercrime incidents involved hackers stealing small amounts of money that were near impossible to detect, before graduating to big money heists, in a what is known…