Eric Wilson reports that the municipality was hit with a ransomware attack: The announcement was published on the office’s website and in social media. According to the information published by the office, one of the employees was accidental opened an infected link that launched the malware and encrypted the server. The administrator found out about the…
Category: Malware
Arrest in Romania of a ransomware affiliate scavenging for sensitive data
The following is a press release: Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) has supported the Romanian National Police (Poliția Română) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in arresting a ransomware affiliate targeting high-profile organisations and companies for their sensitive data. The suspect – a 41-year-old Romanian national – was arrested today at his home in Craiova, Romania, in the early hours…
Volvo had some R&D data stolen in security breach
Kirsten Korosec reports: Volvo Cars is investigating a cybersecurity breach and theft of a limited amount of the company’s research and development data. The data breach was reported Friday by the Swedish automaker. The company said one of its file repositories had been illegally accessed by a third party. Investigations have revealed that a “limited…
Brazilian Ministry of Health suffers cyberattack and COVID-19 vaccination data vanishes
Angelica Mari reports: Websites under Brazil’s Ministry of Health (MoH) have suffered a major ransomware attack that resulted in the unavailability of COVID-19 vaccination data of millions of citizens. Following that attack that took place at around 1 am today, all of MoH’s websites including ConecteSUS, which tracks the trajectory of citizens in the public…
Russian National Sentenced for Providing Crypting Service for Kelihos Botnet
A Russian national was sentenced today in Hartford federal court to 48 months in prison for operating a “crypting” service used to conceal the Kelihos malware from antivirus software, which enabled hackers to systematically infect approximately hundreds of thousands of victim computers around the world with malicious software, including ransomware. According to court documents, Oleg…
More news items involving ransomware….
It’s gotten impossible to keep up with all the attacks, but here are some in the news today: North American food importer Atalanta revealed that employee information was involved in a ransomware attack. Their statement. Media coverage. Hellmann Worldwide Logistics in Germany was also hit by an attack that has impaired operations. Their statement and…