Lori Brown reports: The City of Dallas is dealing with a ransomware attack that has infected its servers, limiting the delivery of City service. The city says security monitoring tools first spotted the attack on Wednesday morning. Read more at Fox4. Update: It looks like the Royal Ransomware gang is responsible for this one.
Category: Malware
TN: Murfreesboro Medical Clinic remains closed due to cyberattack
Update of May 6: Although neither the clinic nor the attackers have confirmed it yet, this attack appears to be the work of BianLian, whose obfuscated description on their leak site matches Murfreesboro’s description. BianLian claims to have over 250 GB of files. Carmyn Gutierrez and Caleb Wethington report: The Murfreesboro Medical Clinic & SurgiCenter was…
MA: Lawrence Family Development Charter School allegedly attacked by Snatch Team
Threat actors known as Snatch Team added the Lawrence Family Development Charter School in Massachusetts to their leak site yesterday. No proof has been provided by the attackers at this point. Two attempts to contact LFCDS administrators through their website contact forms for messages to faculty and staff both failed with messages “{“statusText”:”*** Forbidden. You…
Merck entitled to $1.4B in cyberattack case after appeals court rejects insurers’ ‘warlike action’ claim
Angus Liu reports: Merck may finally be entitled to a hefty insurance payout from the high-profile NotPetya cyberattack—if an appeals court ruling stands. A New Jersey appellate court on Monday ruled that a group of insurers can’t use war as an argument to deny Merck coverage from the notorious cyberattack that afflicted the company and others…
PENNCREST School District dealing with ransomware attack
A May 1 announcement by PENNCREST School District in Pennsylvania begins: Over the weekend, the PENNCREST School District became aware of a situation, believed to be a ransomware event, which has disrupted certain aspects of our operations. We quickly took steps to implement our Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan. Following our plan, we shut down and…
Montana State University update on “cyberattack” doesn’t disclose it’s ransomware
Montana State University was hit with a cyberattack on April 20. They are still working to recover from it. Here is their latest update: Campus network update: NetID password changes, service status page Sent at 8:18 a.m. Friday, April 28, via email to students, faculty and staff. As work continues to return Montana State University’s…