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 knowledge…
Author: Dissent
Man accused of hacking, selling login credentials of Tampa Bay residents, others
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 an…
Fitness Tracker Data Exposed 61 Million Records and User Data Online
Jeremiah Fowler writes: On June 30th, 2021 the WebsitePlanet research team in cooperation with Security Researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected database that contained over 61 million records belonging to users around the world. The massive amount of exposed records were related to IOT health and fitness tracking devices. Upon further investigation there were multiple references…
UAE: Moorfields Eye Hospital in Dubai sees more staff and patient data dumped
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 had…
Technology giant Olympus hit by BlackMatter ransomware
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 8….
SuspectFile intervista AvosLocker: nuovi dettagli sulla variante avos2
Marco A. DeFelice has a post about AvosLocker that is in both Italian and English, in different parts. The English part is a bit of an interview or chat Marco had with their spokesperson. They use the opportunity to explain how superior they believe their new variant, .avos2, is. You can read it all on…