Selena Ross reports: Quebec’s Bibliotheque Nationale is shutting down, and going partly offline, until next Tuesday because it uses the same technology company that served the daycare booking website that had its data stolen earlier this week. “Following the attack on the government site La Place 0-5 earlier this week, the Government Cyber Defense Center…
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Ie: Cyberattack on HSE: Scale of damage from Conti’s ransomware attack will not be known for days
Jack Horgan-Jones and Conor Lally report: It will be at least three days before the scale of the damage from “possibly the most significant cyber crime attack on the Irish State” is clear, a Government Minister has said. Green Party Minister of State for Communications Ossian Smyth said the attack, which led to HSE IT systems being…
A second Russian-language hacking forum bans ransomware-related ads, and the first claim is filed against DarkSide
Earlier today, this site reported that XSS forum had banned any ransomware-related ads and would be deleting threads and posts. Hours later, Exploit.in followed suit. Good day, We are glad to see pentesters, specialists, coders. But they are not happy with lockers, they attract a lot of attention. The very type of activity is not pleasant…
TX: Gastroenterology Consultants, P.A. hit by ransomware in January, but patients not notified yet?
Back in December, this site reported on a ransomware incident affecting Gastroenterology Consultants, LTD in Nevada. They had been the target of Conti threat actors, and they reported the incident to HHS in January as impacting 2,500 patients. Yesterday,, I saw another listing for Gastroenterology Consultants, but this is Gastroenterology Consultants, P.A. in Houston, Texas….
Ie: HSE shuts down IT system after ‘significant’ cyber attack
RTE reports: The Health Service Executive has temporarily shut down its IT system following what it described as a “significant ransomware attack”. The health body said it had taken the precaution of shutting down its systems to further protect them, and to allow it to assess the situation. The issue has led to Dublin’s Rotunda…
Russian-language hacking forum bans ransomware-related ads
XSS forum, one of the two most popular Russian-language forums with sites on clearnet and Tor, has announced that it is now banning ransomware-related ads. No more ransom! Friends, on our forum lockers (Ransomware) and everything connected with them are prohibited . Namely: Ransomware affiliate programs; Ransomware rental; sale of lockers (ransomware software); All topics matching this rule will be…