Some cybercrime reports out of Germany in the past 48 hours (translated): The city administration of Ebeleben was the victim of a massive hacker attack on Wednesday. All servers are out of order, it says from the town hall. For this reason, the city administration will remain closed until Tuesday, March 16, inclusive. Read more…
Category: Business Sector
Ransomware now attacks Microsoft Exchange servers with ProxyLogon exploits
Lawrence Abrams reports: Threat actors are now installing a new ransomware called ‘DEARCRY’ after hacking into Microsoft Exchange servers using the recently disclosed ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. Since Microsoft revealed earlier this month that threat actors were compromising Microsoft Exchange servers using new zero-day ProxyLogon vulnerabilities, a significant concern has been when threat actors would use it to…
Hackers Rushed in as Microsoft Raced to Avert Mass Cyber-Attack
Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius report that the timing of the attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange right before Microsoft could push patches out has Microsoft considering whether there was some leak that alerted the hackers: Microsoft is now investigating the possibility of a leak that may have triggered these mass Exchange compromises ahead of…
Overseas Service Corporation notification of a breach
Another report we may not see on HHS’s public breach tool but that involves health information. This reads like it is a notification to employees based on the types of data involved, but it doesn’t actually say who the breach impacted. Overseas Service Corporation (“OSC”) announced today a phishing email incident that involved a small…
Fastway Couriers Notifies Irish Data Protection Commission of a Hack
Ciara Plunkett reports: The Irish Data Protection Commission says it’s received a breach notification from Fastway Couriers. The customer data impacted includes: names, addresses, email accounts and phone numbers, but the company says nobody’s financial data was at risk. Read more on KFM. Updated March 13: NewsTalk has some more details: The company has confirmed…
Multi-state settlement in 2019 American Medical Collection Agency breach
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced an agreement between a bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general from around the nation and the Westchester County debt collection agency Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, d/b/a American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), that resolves a multistate investigation into the company’s 2019 data breach. The breach exposed the personal information —…