Mohamed Fahmy, Nathaniel Gregory Ragasa, Earle Maui Earnshaw, Bahaa Yamany, Jeffrey Francis Bonaobra, and Jay Yaneza write: We recently discovered a new piece of targeted ransomware that was created in the Go programming language and that explicitly targeted one of our customers. This was evidenced by the specific email addresses and credentials the ransomware used. Malware written in…
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Singapore faced more cybercrime, phishing and ransomware threats in 2021
Natasha Ganesan reports: Firms and individuals in Singapore faced an increased number of cybercrime, phishing and ransomware threats last year, according to a report released by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) on Monday (Aug 29). There were 137 ransomware cases in 2021, a 54 per cent jump from the 89 reported in 2020….
Massive cyberattack leads to class action suit against provider chain Avamere
John Hall reports: Attorneys representing a potentially large group of residents and employees of nursing home behemoth Avamere Holdings announced they have filed a class action suit accusing the long-term care provider of failing to protect its residents and staff from a massive cyberattack. The operator faces the class-action lawsuit over a data breach believed to have affected more…
A huge phishing campaign has targeted over 130 companies, affecting Twilio and Signal
Jess Weatherbed reports: Over 130 organizations, including Twilio, DoorDash, and Cloudflare, have been potentially compromised by hackers as part of a months-long phishing campaign nicknamed “0ktapus” by security researchers. Login credentials belonging to nearly 10,000 individuals were stolen by attackers who imitated the popular single sign-on service Okta, according to a report from cybersecurity outfit Group-IB. Read more…
‘Crisis’ for Utah prisoners as medical records glitch scrambles prescription info
We don’t see many breach reports involving lost devices these days, but records can also be lost due to other causes, such as cyberattacks that encrypt or corrupt files or attacks that delete records where there is no backup. In this case, records were lost during a move to a new facility and transition to…
NHS cyberattack causing ‘total chaos’ in hospitals could take a year to recover
Rebecca Thomas reports: It could take more than a year for hospitals to recover patient record systems following the recent NHS cyberattack, The Independent has learned. Hospitals impacted are likely to need two weeks to recover for every day the situation goes unresolved, according to NHS sources. While initial attention following the ransomware attack on Advantage software was its impact on…