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FBI investigating after cyberattack targets Wayne County School District

Posted on October 6, 2020 by Dissent

By this point, I’m expecting to read that an attack on a school district is a ransomware attack or a DDoS attack. This is neither. Eddie Robertson reports: A cyberattack against Wayne County School District’s 16th Section Principal Fund Account has resulted in an investigation by the FBI after they were contacted by school officials…

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Clinical Trials Hit by Ransomware Attack on Health Tech Firm

Posted on October 4, 2020 by Dissent

Nicole Perlroth reports: A Philadelphia company that sells software used in hundreds of clinical trials, including the crash effort to develop tests, treatments and a vaccine for the coronavirus, was hit by a ransomware attack that has slowed some of those trials over the past two weeks. The attack on eResearchTechnology Inc., which has not…

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New Jersey hospital paid ransomware gang $670K to prevent data leak

Posted on October 3, 2020 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: University Hospital New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey, paid a $670,000 ransomware demand this month to prevent the publishing of 240 GB of stolen data, including patient info. The attack on the hospital occurred in early September by a ransomware operation known as SunCrypt, who infiltrates a network, steals unencrypted files, and then…

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NY: Former Information Technology Employee Of Hospital Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Computer Intrusion

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Dissent

From the SDNY, a press release involving an unnamed hospital in NYC. I’ll tell you more about this one after the press release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD LIRIANO was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to…

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Magnolia Pediatrics notifies patients of a security incident after OCR tells them it’s reportable

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Dissent

Almost one year after Magnolia Pediatrics notified 11,000 patients about a ransomware attack on an unnamed IT vendor, they are now notifying more than 12,000 patients of another attack. This time, they wound up firing their vendor. According to a notification on their web site, on March 26, the Magnolia Pediatrics discovered a security incident….

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Northern California casino shut down by external computer attack

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Dissent

Sam Stanton reports: Northern California’s Cache Creek Casino Resort, which has been shut down since Sept. 20 because of what it called a “systems infrastructure failure,” confirmed Wednesday that its computer systems were the target of an outside attack and that the incident is under investigation. “While our investigation is ongoing, we have confirmed the cause was an external…

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