The Jerusalem Post reports: The Iranian “AFTA” presidential strategic management center thwarted a widespread cyber attack on the country’s infrastructure in recent days, according to Iranian state TV IRIB. According to AFTA, the cyberattackers planned to exploit a security gap in one of the softwares most widely used by infrastructure organizations in Iran. The center…
Author: Dissent
Ransomware attacks are hitting universities hard, and they are feeling the pressure
Danny Palmer reports: Schools and universities are facing an unprecedented level of ransomware attacks as incidents continue to severely impact the education sector. The warning comes from Jisc, a not-for-profit organisation that provides network and IT services to higher education and research institutions. Jisc’s ‘Cyber Impact 2022’ report suggests there’s an increased threat of ransomware attacks against education. Read…
FBI: BlackCat ransomware scratched 60-plus orgs
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: IN BRIEF The BlackCat ransomware gang, said to be the first-known ransomware group to successfully break into networks with Rust-written malware, has attacked at least 60 organizations globally as of March, according to the FBI. BlackCat, also known as ALPHV, is a relatively new group of cybercriminals that operates a Windows ransomware-as-a-service….
Silent no more: Exposing a campaign that intimidated researchers and journalists
On April 20, DataBreaches.net reported that a threat actor contacted this site to say that a researcher, @ido_cohen2, had been scared off the internet after the threat actor’s colleague(s) used a fake Emergency Data Request (EDR) to obtain the researcher’s account information from Twitter. DataBreaches could see that @ido_cohen2’s Twitter account had been deleted and…
NH: Center for Life Management breach impacted mental health clients
From their notice: The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester (“MHCGM”) is providing notice of a recent data security event that occurred at a third-party community partner MHCGM had used for data storage, Center for Life Management (“CLM”), that may impact the privacy of certain information relating to MHCGM patients or those who were assessed…
Illinois Gastroenterology Group is providing notification of breach first discovered last October
From their notification: Illinois Gastroenterology Group, PLLC (“IGG”) is providing notice of a recent incident that may affect the security of certain individuals’ information. On October 22, 2021, IGG discovered unusual activity within its computer network. IGG immediately launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party cybersecurity specialists, to determine the nature and scope of the…