Gill Gifford reports: Most online services, the payment of child maintenance to beneficiaries and the electronic recording of court proceedings is virtually back to normal after last month’s ransomware attack on the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. The September attack led to a massive crisis, causing major disruptions to all divisions — including the…
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Ransomware Group FIN12 Aggressively Going After Healthcare Targets
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: An “aggressive” financially motivated threat actor has been identified as linked to a string of RYUK ransomware attacks since October 2018, while maintaining close partnerships with TrickBot-affiliated threat actors and using a publicly available arsenal of tools such as Cobalt Strike Beacon payloads to interact with victim networks. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant attributed…
Data Hack Hits Alumni of Harvard-Westlake Private School
Gary Baum reports: Students’ confidential academic files were hacked and exposed at Los Angeles private school Harvard-Westlake. Archived SAT scores, GPAs, transcripts and college recommendation letters were downloaded, then sent to a group of parents and the school newspaper, as well as The Hollywood Reporter. The materials encompass approximately 150 alumni who graduated over the past…
Oregon Eye Specialists, PC notifies patients after email breach
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Oregon Eye Specialists, PC announces a data incident that may have impacted a limited number of individuals’ information. On August 10, 2021, Oregon Eye Specialists, PC identified unusual activity in an email account. An investigation determined that an individual accessed certain accounts between June 29, 2021 and August 31, 2021. Therefore, Oregon Eye Specialists, PC is reviewing the contents of…
Singapore passes law to tackle ‘foreign interference,’ giving authorities the power to block internet content
On October 5, Reuters reported: Singapore’s Parliament has approved a law giving broad powers to the government to deal with foreign interference — sparking concern from the opposition and experts about its wide scope and limits on judicial review. The small and open city-state, which says it is vulnerable to foreign meddling, targeted fake news with a…
Hacker arrested in France for theft of COVID-19 tests for 1.4 million Parisians
An update to a previously reported data breach. Catalin Cimpanu reports: French police have detained a 22-year-old suspect on the accusation of breaching a Paris hospital, stealing, and then leaking the COVID-19 test results of more than 1.4 million patients. The suspect, whose name was not released by authorities, was arrested on Wednesday, October 6,…