Morgan Loew, Cody Lillich, Gilbert Zermeño and Gray News staff report: Debi Gotlieb knew something was wrong when she could not find her late father’s home on the county assessor’s webpage. The property was tied up in probate and should have been listed as owned by her father, Jerry Gotlieb, who died in March of…
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Food For Files: GoodWill Ransomware demands food for the poor to decrypt locked files
Waqas reports: GoodWill ransomware attackers share a three-page ransom note asking the victim to perform three tasks to get the decryption key- they want them to donate to the homeless, feed poor kids, and provide financial assistance to a patient in need. CloudSEK Threat Intelligence Research team has warned about new ransomware dubbed GoodWill Ransomware that can…
Iran nuclear files Mossad seized in 2018 included stolen IAEA records – WSJ
The Jerusalem Post reports: Iranian nuclear documents seized by the Mossad in 2018 included secret records from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran had accessed and used to create cover stories to hide parts of its nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Middle East intelligence officials told the WSJ that the IAEA documents, marked confidential,…
Ca: Data breach at Toronto health network possibly exposed patient information, OHIP numbers
CBC News reports: A Toronto health network says some of its servers containing a variety of personal patient details were recently breached. The Scarborough Health Network (SHN), which includes three hospitals and eight satellite sites, said in a statement Wednesday their IT department first noticed “unusual activity” on its servers Jan. 25. Its investigation with…
I.T. Specialist Charged in Cyber Intrusion of Suburban Chicago Health Care Company
CHICAGO — An information technology specialist has been indicted on a federal criminal charge for allegedly hacking into the server of a suburban Chicago health care company where he formerly worked as a contractor. AARON LOCKNER illegally accessed the server of the health care company, which operated a clinic in Oak Lawn, Ill., on April…
MO: Washington University School of Medicine notifying patients and research participants of data security incident
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has reported yet another data security incident — what appears to be the fourth one in five years. Washington University School of Medicine is notifying an as-yet revealed number of patients and research participants whose personal and protected health information was in employee email accounts that were…