Catalin Cimpanu reports: Liege, the third biggest city in Belgium, has suffered today a ransomware attack that has disrupted the municipality’s IT network and online services. Following the attack, most of the city’s civil status and population services are down, Liege officials said on a status page today. Read more on The Record.
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Former Cedar Rapids Hospital Employee Sentenced for Accessing Ex-Boyfriend’s Medical Records
A former Cedar Rapids hospital employee, who wrongfully accessed and distributed her ex-boyfriend’s medical records, was sentenced on June 14, 2021. Jennifer Lynne Bacor, age 41, from Las Vegas, Nevada, received probation after pleading guilty to one count of wrongfully obtaining individually identifiable health information under false pretenses. In a plea agreement, Bacor admitted she…
Baltimore County Police Officer charged with trying to stealing dead woman’s identity
Bryna Zumer reports: A Baltimore County police officer has been indicted on charges of trying to steal the identity of a dead woman whose house he was dispatched to. Police said Deandre Ross, who has been suspended with pay, allegedly was sent to the victim’s house on March 16, according to a press release. Read…
Dominican National Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft Charges
BOSTON – A Dominican national pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with using the identity of a U.S. citizen at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. Hector Antonio Cruz Ciprian, 33, a Dominican national previously residing in Lowell, pleaded guilty to one count of false representation of a Social Security number and one count of aggravated…
Brazil medical firm Fleury hit by cyberattack
Jake Spring reports: Brazilian medical lab company Fleury SA (FLRY3.SA) said in a securities filing that a cyberattack had resulted in a partial outage of its information technology systems on Tuesday. Read more on Reuters. Update of June 27: REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware operators have added Fleury to their leak site. The threat actors claim to have acquired…
LV Ransomware Group Repurposed REvil Binary, Researchers Find
Dennis Fisher reports: Researchers have discovered that the LV ransomware that has been in use since late 2020 is actually a modified version of the REvil ransomware binary that is being distributed by a separate threat group. An analysis of the LV ransomware binary by Secureworks Counter Threat Unit researchers shows that LV is a version of…