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Patients concerned after local allergy clinic closes its doors because of alleged data breach

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Dissent

KOCO reports: A local asthma and allergy clinic has closed its doors because of an alleged security data breach. Patients are now concerned that their medical records may have been compromised. Several patients have told KOCO that they are in need of asthma medication from the Oklahoma Institute of Allergy Asthma and Immunology but have…

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Franklin County Public Schools hit by ransomware attack

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Dissent

Holly Kozelsky reports: Franklin County Public Schools were closed Monday following a ransomware attack that is still impacting the school division. According to a statement from Franklin County Public Schools Superintendent Bernice Cobbs, the decision was made to cancel classes Monday in the interest of on-campus security as the impact of the cyberattack was being…

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Ransomware Charges Unsealed Against Russian National in District of Columbia

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Dissent

WASHINGTON – An indictment was unsealed today in the District of Columbia charging a Russian national with participating in a global ransomware campaign which deployed ransomware variants against victims in the District of Columbia, the United States, and around the world. Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, alleged to use the online monikers Wazawaka, m1x, Broriscelcin, and Uhodiransomwar,…

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Russian National Charged with Ransomware Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Dissent

The Justice Department today unsealed two indictments charging a Russian national and resident with using three different ransomware variants to attack numerous victims throughout the United States, including law enforcement agencies in Washington, D.C. and New Jersey, as well as victims in healthcare and other sectors nationwide. According to the indictment obtained in the District…

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Ransomware corrupts data, so backups can be faster and cheaper than paying up

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Dissent

Simon Sharwood reports: Ransomware actors aim to spend the shortest amount of time possible inside your systems, and that means the encryption they employ is shoddy and often corrupts your data. That in turn means restoration after paying ransoms is often a more expensive chore than just deciding not to pay and working from our…

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CrowdStrike finds new ransomware-as-a-service group targeting VMWare ESXi servers (5 tips to fight back)

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Dissent

Nancy  Liu reports: CrowStrike discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group — MichaelKors (formerly Qilin) — targeting VMWare ESXi servers since last month. The VMWare ESXi is a hypervisor that runs and manages virtual machines (VMs) directly on a dedicated host’s hardware. The products associated with the ESXi platform include VMware vSphere Hypervisor, vCenter, ONE Access or Identity…

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