Vincera Institute in Philadelphi is notifying patients of a ransomware incident that occurred on April 29. From their press release, below, it sounds like they have not confirmed nor ruled out unauthorized access, exfiltration, or misuse of data. Vincera reported the incident to HHS on June 20 as four entities: Vincera Core Physicians reported that…
Category: Malware
Ransomware Gang Haunted US Firms Long Before MOVEit Hack
Jamie Tarabay reports: Shell Plc, IAG SA’s British Airways, the British Broadcasting Corp., the state of Minnesota’s Department of Education, multiple federal agencies — they’re among the victims of the latest data breach launched by Clop, a Russian-speaking hacking group that’s attacking targets around the world in both the public and private sectors. The Clop gang, also known as…
Ransomware affects emergency radiology workflows
June 20, 2023 — Ransomware attacks have a significant effect on emergency radiology workflows, as well as on acute care delivery and the personal well-being of healthcare providers, according to a study published June 15 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Researchers led by Liselotte van Boven, MD, from VieCuri Medical Center in Venlo, the Netherlands, found…
Suffering from ransomware is a reason to fire more than half of the workforce. The National Court endorses it
Adam Straker reports: One of the great fears of any company is that it will be affected by a cyber attack. The presence of malware on a company’s computer equipment can be fatal by producing stoppages in production, the impossibility of accessing their records and even the danger of the personal data of its clients. But now a new…
Iowa’s largest school district confirms ransomware attack, data theft
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Des Moines Public Schools, Iowa’s largest school district, confirmed today that a ransomware attack was behind an incident that forced it to take all networked systems offline on January 9, 2023. While the school district also received a ransom demand following the attack from an unnamed ransomware group, the ransom has not…
Russian National Arrested and Charged with Conspiring to Commit LockBit Ransomware Attacks Against U.S. and Foreign Businesses
The Justice Department today announced charges against a Russian national for his involvement in deploying numerous LockBit ransomware and other cyberattacks against victim computer systems in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov (АСТАМИРОВ, Руслан Магомедовичь), 20, of Chechen Republic, will make his initial appearance later today. “This Lockbit-related arrest, the second…