From their press release: On March 13, 2017, LCS-WP LLC d/b/a Walnut Place (“Walnut Place”) leadership discovered that some of its systems had been infected with ransomware (a type of computer malware that encrypts files). Walnut Place’s investigation has revealed that the ransomware began affecting its systems on or around January 25, 2017 and was…
Category: Malware
Brooks Brothers payment card system compromised for almost one year; customers being alerted
Oh my. It seems that upscale Brooks Brothers had a payment card compromise that went on for almost one year at hundreds of their brick-and-mortar retail and outlet locations. Brooks Brothers recently became aware of a security incident that could affect the payment card information of some customers who made purchases at certain Brooks Brothers…
Developing: Multiple NHS trusts across England disrupted by ransomware attack
Digital Health is reporting: Multiple hospitals across England have been hit by a large-scale cyber attack on Friday afternoon, with trusts switching off systems. NHS Digital confirmed to Digital Health News that it is aware of a “cyber security incident”. Sources told Digital Health News that there was a major N3 cyber security issue on…
IL: Pekin high school hit by ransomware and $37,000 demand
Nick Vlahos reports: A cyberattack last weekend has been forcing students, teachers and administrators at Pekin Community High School to forgo its computer systems. That hasn’t been easy. “You really quickly realize how much you rely on technology when you don’t have access to it for a couple of days,” Danielle Owens, the District 303…
US ISP Goes Down as Two Malware Families Go to War Over Its Modems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two malware families battling for turf are most likely the cause of an outage suffered by Californian ISP Sierra Tel at the beginning of the month. This outage took place on April 10, 2017, when Sierra Tel customers started complaining about losing Internet and telephone connectivity. While initially there were unconfirmed rumors…
Hackers reportedly disable Newark computers and demand $30K ‘ransom’
Paul Milo reported this yesterday: Hackers have disabled some City of Newark computers and are now demanding about $30,000 worth of the online currency Bitcoin to render them operable once again, TAPInto reported Monday. The computers were infected over the weekend with an encryption that affects nearly all files that operate on a desktop, according to…