CBC News reports: Students and digital security experts say York University must release more information about what the school calls an “extremely serious” cyber attack last week. York says the Friday evening attack corrupted a number of its servers and workstations, though it has not yet said if any sensitive information was stolen. Read more…
Category: Malware
Nashville plastic surgery center hit by ransomware
The plastic surgery center of Dr. Kristin Tarbet in Bellevue Washington was not the only plastic surgery hit by ransomware on May 1. On the same day, Maze Team also reportedly hit Nashville Plastic Surgery Institute, LLC, dba Maxwell Aesthetics. It was the very day that they were reopening after having been shut down totally…
So much for their moratorium on attacking healthcare entities: Maze Team attacks a plastic surgeon
We also stop all activity versus all kinds of medical organizations until the stabilization of the situation with virus — Maze Team, March 18, 2020 Despite having proclaimed that they would not be attacking medical entities during the pandemic, Maze Team has attacked another medical entity: a Bellevue, Washington-based plastic surgeon who specializes in surgery…
Taiwan’s Formosa Petrochemical gas stations hit by malware attack
Matthew Strong reports: A day after top oil refiner CPC Corp., Taiwan became the target of a malware attack, its privately held competitor, Formosa Petrochemical Corp., suffered a similar ordeal, reports said Tuesday (May 5). The company said it had shut down its computer system, but its refining and petrochemical activities had not been affected, CNA reported….
Nefilim/Nephilim Could Soon Fill the Gap Left by NEMTY’s Termination
Bill Toulas reports: Only about three weeks ago, we reported on the closure of the NEMTY project – at least as far as its RaaS (ransomware as a service) operations are concerned. The authors of the successful strain decided to go private and hunt bigger fish, while they shared the source code of NEMTY with a selection…
London accounting firm attacked by Sodinokibi operators
The London accountancy firm MJ Payne Ltd advertises that it is a Specialist accounting services for small and micro businesses. Stress free. They may need to redact the “Stress free” claim now that they have allegedly been attacked by REvil ransomware operators. On Friday, and as proof of their attack, the REvil operators posted screencaps…