Simon Sharwood reports: Ransomware actors aim to spend the shortest amount of time possible inside your systems, and that means the encryption they employ is shoddy and often corrupts your data. That in turn means restoration after paying ransoms is often a more expensive chore than just deciding not to pay and working from our…
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CrowdStrike finds new ransomware-as-a-service group targeting VMWare ESXi servers (5 tips to fight back)
Nancy Liu reports: CrowStrike discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group — MichaelKors (formerly Qilin) — targeting VMWare ESXi servers since last month. The VMWare ESXi is a hypervisor that runs and manages virtual machines (VMs) directly on a dedicated host’s hardware. The products associated with the ESXi platform include VMware vSphere Hypervisor, vCenter, ONE Access or Identity…
Philadelphia Inquirer hit by cyberattack causing newspaper’s largest disruption in decades
AP reports: The Philadelphia Inquirer experienced the most significant disruption to its operations in 27 years due to what the newspaper calls a cyberattack. The company was working to restore print operations after a cyber incursion that prevented the printing of the newspaper’s Sunday print edition, the Inquirer reported on its website. Read more at…
North Korean Crypto Thefts Surpass $2.5 Billion
Coingape reports: North Korean hackers have stolen $721 million from Japan since 2017, accounting for 30% of the crypto thefts worldwide. According to a study by a U.K.-based compliance specialist, North Korea employs hacking and ransomware to steal crypto assets, especially in Japan, Vietnam and Hong Kong, the leading Asian crypto hubs. Lazarus Group, a North Korean-based hacker group’s…
Warnings over NHS data privacy after ‘stalker’ doctor shares woman’s records
Today’s reminder that insider snooping can leave patients anxious, angry, and distrustful of ever sharing their protected health information again — even if they are not the patient who was victimized. Denis Campbell reports on an insider snooping case involving the UK’s NHS: The confidentiality of NHS medical records has been thrown into doubt after a “stalker”…
Ransomware attack on PharMerica affected 5.8 million patients
While the Fortra/GoAnywhere data breach by Clop is shaping up to be the biggest, or one of the biggest, breaches affecting HIPAA-covered entities and business associates in 2023, an attack by Money Message on PharMerica is currently the largest single breach reported so far this year, with almost 6 million affected. On April 8, DataBreaches…