News10 reports: The Albany County Sheriff’s Office says on Tuesday around 9:30 p.m. the Tri County Public Safety network which includes Albany, Saratoga, and Rensselaer Counties, was hit with a ransomware attack. Their office reportedly worked throughout the night with their vendors, as well as NYDHSES Office of Counter Terrorism Cyber Incident Response Team to…
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Ransomware attack on Pimpri Chinchwad Smart City servers managed by Tech Mahindra
The Economic Times reports: Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation Smart City said on Monday that it had not suffered any data loss due to a ransomware attack late last month and that it had also not paid ransom to the hackers. This is perhaps the first known instance of a cyberattack on a Smart City project, which…
The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona hit by ransomware
Juan Ranchal reports (translation): The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, AMB, has suspended its digital services after suffering a computer attack that is suspected of being a Ransomware like the recent one from SEPE. “For external reasons, the AMB systems have been affected and electronic processing, other digital services and updating the website are not available,” this administrative body…
UK: Ministry of Defence secrets exposed by people sending files to personal email accounts, documents show
Alexander Martin reports: Secret information belonging to the Ministry of Defence was exposed to hostile states when it was transferred from secure networks to personal email accounts, Sky News has learnt. Although documents obtained by Sky News were redacted to obscure the nature of the secret information, they reveal a record number of security breaches…
CRA locking 800K Canadian taxpayers out of accounts
Rachel Aiello reports: The Canada Revenue Agency is locking out 800,000 users from their online accounts on Saturday, out of fear that people’s usernames and passwords have been hacked. Citing the cybersecurity risk of having this information in the hands of potentially bad actors, obtained through email phishing schemes or third party data breaches, the…
Meanwhile, over in Germany…
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…