The following is an update to a case previously noted on DataBreaches.net when the defendant was first indicted. Joshua Maywalt (40, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to four counts of healthcare fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft, one count of filing a false federal income tax return, and two counts of failing to file federal…
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FBI says the Cuba ransomware gang made $43.9 million from ransom payments
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Federal Bureau of Investigations said today that the operators of the Cuba ransomware have earned at least $43.9 million from ransom payments following attacks carried out this year. In a flash alert sent out on Friday, the Bureau said the Cuba gang has “compromised at least 49 entities in five critical…
Z-CERT: “Small healthcare institutions are generally more vulnerable than large healthcare institutions, such as hospitals”
Interview with the director Wim Hafkamp and security specialist Jan Hanstede of Z-CERT by the DeCrisis manager Which type of healthcare institutions do you feel are the most vulnerable to such a threat? “Small healthcare facilities are generally more vulnerable than large healthcare facilities, such as hospitals. This is because they have less feeling for IT. They…
Suspected Chinese hackers breach more US defense and tech firms
Sean Lyngaas of CNN reports: A suspected Chinese hacking campaign has breached four more US defense and technology companies in the last month, and hundreds more US organizations are running the type of vulnerable software that the attackers have exploited, according to research shared with CNN. The apparent espionage activity, which the National Security Agency…
It: Hacker attack on the Ulss in the night, at risk of visits, interventions and urgent operations
Machine Translation of a report on an attack on an Italian health system: Ulss 6 Euganea under hacker attack. During the night, a cyber attack occurred which resulted in the blocking of most of the servers, compromising their usability. «We are working very quickly with all our IT technicians in order to restore the services as…
Welcome surprise: threat actors give victim school district a free decryptor.
On November 23, DataBreaches.net reported that Avos Locker threat actors had added Beaverhead County High School in Montana to their leak site. At the time, this site reported: From their listing, Avos Locker is clearly aware that this is a tiny school district with only a few hundred students and less than two dozen teachers….