Updated May 3: Avos Locker subsequently added the university to its leak site with a message: “1.2 TB data from a college with cyber insurance policy that doesn’t care about protecting students. Management is a circus attempting to identify breach (good luck) and lying to students and media about the severity. We’ll continue attacking for…
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Merck entitled to $1.4B in cyberattack case after appeals court rejects insurers’ ‘warlike action’ claim
Angus Liu reports: Merck may finally be entitled to a hefty insurance payout from the high-profile NotPetya cyberattack—if an appeals court ruling stands. A New Jersey appellate court on Monday ruled that a group of insurers can’t use war as an argument to deny Merck coverage from the notorious cyberattack that afflicted the company and others…
288 dark web vendors arrested in major marketplace seizure
Fromm Europol’s press release: In an operation coordinated by Europol and involving nine countries, law enforcement have seized the illegal dark web marketplace “Monopoly Market” and arrested 288 suspects involved in buying or selling drugs on the dark web. More than EUR 50.8 million (USD 53.4 million) in cash and virtual currencies, 850 kg of…
Wichita State University restoring systems after cyber attack
Over the weekend, Wichita State University took proactive measures and disconnected several University systems to isolate an unauthorized attempt by a third party to access the University’s systems, according to a statement of the school’s website. Most of the University system access has been restored and there has been no indication that any of the…
PENNCREST School District dealing with ransomware attack
A May 1 announcement by PENNCREST School District in Pennsylvania begins: Over the weekend, the PENNCREST School District became aware of a situation, believed to be a ransomware event, which has disrupted certain aspects of our operations. We quickly took steps to implement our Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan. Following our plan, we shut down and…
Montana State University update on “cyberattack” doesn’t disclose it’s ransomware
Montana State University was hit with a cyberattack on April 20. They are still working to recover from it. Here is their latest update: Campus network update: NetID password changes, service status page Sent at 8:18 a.m. Friday, April 28, via email to students, faculty and staff. As work continues to return Montana State University’s…