Barlow Respiratory Hospital has locations in California, and given how COVID has so many respiratory complications, you would imagine that they have been incredibly busy this year. On August 27, they experienced a ransomware attack, an attack claimed by threat actors who call themselves Vice Society. The hospital responsibly posted a notice on their web…
Category: Breach Incidents
“REvil” reappears on forum — but not “Unknown?”
As previously noted by this site and others, REvil threat actors appear to have re-emerged after disappearing in July.. Their dedicated leak site and blog are at the same Tor address as previously, but is it “Unknown” who is back, or not? A new account calling itself “REvil” registered on a popular Russian-language forum this…
HBP Financial Services Group notice of breach impacting Pathology Consultants of New London, PC
The following was found in the legal notices section of the Westerly Sun. Details for NOTICE OF DATA BREACH HBP NOTICE OF DATA BREACH HBP Financial Services Group, LTD (HBP), which serves as the practice administrator for Pathology Consultants of New London, PC (PCNL), was the victim of an IT incident that resulted in the unauthorized access…
Criminals in lab coats exploit the healthcare sector and government
We all complain about the exorbitant ransom demands ransomware teams make on medical practices and hospitals. But they are not the only criminals costing entities — and society — money. Every day, insiders are stealing money — from the government and from all of us. Here’s just a few recent headlines from the U.S. Department…
Ransomware gang threatens to leak data if victim contacts FBI, police
Ax Sharma reports: The Ragnar Locker ransomware group is warning that they will leak stolen data from victims that contact law enforcement authorities, like the FBI. Ragnar Locker has previously hit prominent companies with ransomware attacks, demanding millions of dollars in ransom payments. In an announcement published on Ragnar Locker’s darknet leak site this week,…
ALTDOS claims some of their servers were seized but they did not lose data
It would be great if the good guys had backups as good as the threat actors have. Threat actors who call themselves “ALTDOS” have re-emerged after a brief hiatus that had left this site wondering if something had happened to them following a joint advisory about them. ALTDOS has attacked a number of ASEAN firms,…