NHK reports: The Shibuya Ward office in Tokyo has issued a formal apology after an apparent cyberattack disrupted public services on Wednesday. […] On Tuesday, an international hacker group calling themselves “Anonymous” posted on Twitter that “shibuya municipality closes homeless shelter so we close shibuya municipality website.” Read more at NHK.
Category: Hack
HC3: Analyst Note: Pro-Russian Hacktivist Group ‘KillNet’ Threat to HPH Sector
December 22, 2022 TLP:CLEAR Report: 202212221500 Executive Summary HC3 is closely tracking hacktivist groups which have previously affected a wide range of countries and industries, including the United States Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. One of these hacktivist groups—dubbed ‘KillNet’—recently targeted a U.S. organization in the healthcare industry. The group is known to launch…
Attack on the Azienda Ospedaliera di Alessandria hospital: additional details on the case
Marco A. De Felice prefaces his reporting on a Ragnar_Locker attack with this message: For ethical reasons we did not want to spread the news of the attack on the hospital’s IT infrastructure before the news became public knowledge. Indeed, on December 20, SuspectFile had already become aware of the ransom note written by the…
Updating the Lake Charles Memorial Health System data breach
On Oct. 25, the Hive ransomware team notified Lake Charles Memorial Health System that they had been in their system for 12 days and had exfiltrated 270 GB of the hospital, employee, and patient data. As Hive informed the health system and DataBreaches, Hive had exfiltrated data but not locked it. They demanded $900,000 to…
Developing: Moroccan court orders extradition of alleged member of ShinyHunters to U.S.
Since July of 2022, DataBreaches has been reporting on the case of Sébastien Raoult, a young French national detained in Morocco on an Interpol Red Notice requested by the U.S. for alleged involvement in ShinyHunters. Yesterday, Morocco’s Court of Cassation notified Raoult that they signed the order for his extradition to the U.S. According to…
Two Men Arrested For Conspiring With Russian Nationals To Hack The Taxi Dispatch System At JFK Airport
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John Gay, the Inspector General of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (the “Port Authority”), announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging DANIEL ABAYEV and PETER LEYMAN with two counts of conspiracy to commit computer intrusions. The Indictment…