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Exclusive: Attack on HVAC vendor gave threat actor access to Boston Children’s Hospital

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Dissent

If you think about “supply chain attack” and “HVAC,” you will probably immediately think of the headline-making Target breach of 2013.  But that wasn’t the only breach via a third-party HVAC vendor. Just this month, several hospitals in Boston may have narrowly escaped potentially serious breaches when their HVAC vendor was hacked and the threat…

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Moorfields Eye Hospital investigating cyberattack on Dubai hospital, notifying patients

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Dissent

In one of the latest attacks on medical entities, AvosLocker has claimed that they exfiltrated 60 GB of data from “Moorfields NHS UK & Dubai.”  So far, however, there is no evidence that any UK servers were hit — only Dubai ones. Moorfields in a specialty eye hospital that is part of the UK’s National…

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k-12 school districts fall prey to Pysa ransomware

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Dissent

—– A DataBreaches.net report by Dissent and Chum1ng0 —– In Part 1 of this series, DataBreaches.net described a number of attacks by Pysa (mespinoza) threat actors on medical entities in the U.S. In Part 2, we look at eight k-12 public school districts in the U.S. who either appear on the threat actors’ dedicated leak…

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Greenway Health investigating claims by threat actors of a cyberattack (updated)

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Dissent

Update of August 10:  Following publication of our article with a statement from Greenway Health that the attack appeared to be on a former client and not them (but it was under investigation), DataBreaches.net checked the threat actor’s leak site today and found the entire listing is gone. This could mean a number of things,…

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Australian Cyber Security Centre reports multiple victims of LockBit 2.0 ransomware

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Dissent

David Simmons reports: A ransomware attack called LockBit 2.0 has hit multiple organisations across various industry sectors according to the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), with the government body publishing a ‘medium’ alert for the cybercrime. […] Operators of the platform have appeared on Russian-language cybercrime forums since January 2020 according to ACSC, but the…

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Attempted ransomware attack prompts Eskenazi Health to shut down systems and divert patients

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Dissent

WTHR reports:  Eskenazi Health said an attempted ransomware attack caused the hospital to go on diversion Wednesday morning. A hospital spokesperson said their monitoring systems functioned as they should have and proactively shut down their network. Read more on WTHR.  Their web site is not reachable at this time, and although they have updated their…

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