Dan Goodin reports: The US Justice Department has become the latest federal agency to say its network was breached in a long and wide-ranging hack campaign that’s believed to have been backed by the Russian government. In a terse statement issued Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said that the breach wasn’t discovered until December 24, which…
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Indian government sites leaking patient COVID-19 test results
Is there anyone who didn’t see this coming? Ax Sharma reports: Websites of multiple Indian government departments, including national health and welfare agencies, are leaking COVID-19 lab test results for thousands of patients online. These leaked lab reports which are being indexed by search engines expose patient data, and whether they tested positive for coronavirus. Read more on BleepingComputer.
ZA: Government to replace Sassa grant cards after security breach
BusinessTech staff report: Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu says that government is in talks with stakeholders to replace South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) cards after a security breach, first reported in 2019. Responding to a written parliamentary Q&A in December, Zulu said that Sassa cards are actually bank cards issued by the South…
Lithuania’s public health body comes under cyber attack; infected emails contain emotet trojan
Jūratė Damulytė and Ignas Jačauskas of BNS report a Trojan.Emotet virus is making the rounds in email attachments sent to Lithuanian government institutions, ministries, and individuals who were contacted by National Public Health Centre (NVSC) specialists whose accounts were first infected by the virus. Lithuania’s National Public Health Centre (NVSC) came under a cyber attack…
FR: Grand Annecy hit by malware attack
And here we go… yet another French city and agglomeration have been hit by malware Is any French news outlet going to find out and tell us what kind of malware and what the ransom demands are, if there are demands? Translation from Le Dauphiné follows: During the night of December 27 to 28, the…
Cornelia, Georgia hit by ransomware attack on the day after Christmas
Posted on: December 29, 2020 by the City of Cornelia: City of Cornelia Ransomware Incident The City of Cornelia is dealing with a ransomware incident that began on December 26. We have anticipated situations such as this and, out of an abundance of caution, we have taken down our network while we investigate and restore our…