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City of Dallas update on ransomware attack recovery efforts

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Dissent

4 p.m. update, Monday, May 8 As of Monday, May 8 DallasCityHall.com and DallasPolice.net are back online. 911 and 311 intake and dispatch continue via phone and radio dispatch while Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD) components including 1900 mobile devices (1600 for DPD and 300 for DFR) and the server routing calls are tested to ensure…

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Cyberattacks a Problem for Nearby Emergency Departments, Too

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Dissent

Michael DePeau-Wilson writes: A ransomware attack at one healthcare system had a significant impact on two neighboring emergency departments (EDs) that weren’t targeted in the attack, researchers found. Daily mean ED volume rose 15.1% at the two facilities, from 218.4 in the pre-attack period to 251.4 in the attack period (P<0.001), Christian Dameff, MD, MS, of…

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Murfreesboro Medical Clinic reopens some, but not all, services. Attack appears to be work of BianLian.

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Dissent

On April 22, the Murfreesboro Medical Clinic in Tennessee suffered a ransomware attack that resulted in them having to shut down all operations on May 1-3 to limit the spread of the attack. The clinic’s statement was previously reported on DataBreaches.net. A notice on their website today advises patients that MMC Pediatrics has resumed normal…

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A rough year: first a ransomware attack, then a credential stuffing attack affecting more than 1 million patients.

Posted on May 6, 2023 by Dissent

On April 28, NextGen submitted a breach notification to the Montana Attorney General’s Office. Thinking it would be a report linked to the ransomware attack by AlphV (BlackCat) in January, DataBreaches prepared to write an update. But it turned out that it was not that incident. It was a seemingly unrelated incident. NextGen, a business…

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Big Game Hunting is back despite decreasing Ransom Payment Amounts

Posted on May 6, 2023 by Dissent

Coveware’s Q1 report for 2023: Midway through Q1 the winds of progress shifted, and we observed a material increase in attacks on large enterprises that achieved levels of impact that we had not observed since before the Colonial Pipeline attack in May 2021. In 2019 and 2020 it was fairly common to see large enterprises…

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NC: ‘Ransomware cult’ claims to have hacked two local schools

Posted on May 6, 2023 by Dissent

Morgan Frances reports: Folders containing sensitive information were published on Twitter by a group claiming to have hacked into Socrates Academy in Matthews and Movement School. The hackers, which Queen City News has decided not to name, first posted proof of their hack, promising more to come if school officials didn’t cooperate. “I saw a…

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