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FBI says the Cuba ransomware gang made $43.9 million from ransom payments

Posted on December 4, 2021 by Dissent

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…

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Z-CERT: “Small healthcare institutions are generally more vulnerable than large healthcare institutions, such as hospitals”

Posted on December 4, 2021 by Dissent

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…

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Suspected Chinese hackers breach more US defense and tech firms

Posted on December 4, 2021 by Dissent

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…

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It: Hacker attack on the Ulss in the night, at risk of visits, interventions and urgent operations

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Dissent

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…

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Welcome surprise: threat actors give victim school district a free decryptor.

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Dissent

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….

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NY: Riverhead schools hit by ransomware attack, shutting down computer and tech infrastructure

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Dissent

Alek Lewis reports: The Riverhead Central School District was hit by a ransomware attack this morning, shutting down the district’s computer and technology infrastructure for what officials said could be several days. The district sent out a statement this morning at 8:48 a.m. on their social media alerting parents to what was then described as…

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