Ax Sharma reports: University Hospital New Jersey (UHNJ) has suffered a massive data leak with over 48,000 documents floating on the dark web. An anonymous tip sent to BleepingComputer shows the different types of documents found in the leaked data dump. Read more on BleepingComputer, who provide a lot of redacted screenshots from a data dump…
Category: Malware
Magento online stores hacked in largest campaign to date
Catalin Cimpanu reports: More than 2,000 Magento online stores have been hacked over the weekend in what security researchers have described as the “largest campaign ever.” The attacks were a typical Magecart scheme where hackers breached sites and then planted malicious scripts inside the stores’ source code, code that logged payment card details that shoppers…
Hackers tried to slip Trojan viruses into St. Louis County’s website, but never got in, IT director says
Jeremy Kohler reports: St. Louis County government’s information technology staff took down the county website on Sept. 1 after discovering attacks on its server designed to take control of the site, the IT director said Monday. They were able to respond to the threat before the hackers could succeed, acting IT director Charles Henderson said…
Gelderland Security Region Hit in Ransomware Attack
Janene Pieters reports: Veiligheidsregio Noord- en Oost-Gelderland (VNOG) was infected by ransomware over the weekend. The attack left the internal systems damaged. Some functionality is limited or not working at all. But the notification systems like P2000 and C2000, with which the security services communicate, are unaffected. Read more on NLtimes.nl. h/t, @Chum1ng0
Central Bank of Seychelles reports ransomware attack on Development Bank of Seychelles
From a Central Bank of Seychelles(CBS) press release of September 11, as first reported by Bleeping Computer: The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) has been informed of a ransomware attack on the network of the Development Bank of Seychelles (DBS). The incident was communicated to CBS on Wednesday 9 September 2020. Since then, CBS has…
Maze attacking some of the country’s largest school districts
On August 27, Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada experienced a data security incident that they disclosed the next day. And on September 8, they issued an update. The update noted that the attack was a ransomware attack. Although the district stated it had seen no evidence of misuse, they were notifying everyone to…