John Beauge reports: Personal information including Social Security numbers may be at risk as the result of unauthorized access and acquisition of data stored on a Pennsylvania county’s computer network. “We determined that the cyber criminals took certain data from our network, which included personally identifiable information,” the Union County commissioners revealed Friday. “The affected…
Category: Malware
Mission, Texas expects ransomware impact to last months
Matt Wilson reports: The city of Mission expects the fallout from a debilitating ransomware attack last month to have an impact for months. The city said so in correspondence last Thursday seeking an attorney general’s opinion allowing it to withhold contracts with outside cybersecurity experts and legal council asked for by the Progress Times through…
Watsonville Community Hospital still hasn’t notified all those affected by a November data breach; employees are reporting tax refund fraud
Felix Cortez reports: Just months after Watsonville Community Hospital was hit by a cyber-attack, roughly 20 employees at the hospital now say they’re the victims of identity theft. “We heard from a few of our employees that they reported there were fraudulent tax filings in their name, so someone else had tried to file a…
Extortion Reboot: Ransomware Crew Threatens Leak to Snowden
There are those who might say that any media coverage is valuable or desirable, but when a ransomware group winds up drawing snickers, maybe not. Kristina Beek reports: A threat group known as Ox Thief recently tried to entice its victim to pay to protect its data by threatening to go to Edward Snowden — a…
Almost one month after Brain Cipher claimed to have attacked them, Pulmonary Physicians of South Florida has yet to publicly confirm or deny any breach
Pulmonary Physicians of South Florida (PPSF) describe themselves as a group of experienced and highly qualified pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine physicians. “We provide comprehensive, state of the art diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the lungs in every hospital in Miami-Dade County, as well as in select hospitals in Broward and Monroe counties,”…
What is WikiLeaksV2 doing with a ransomware gang? Spoiler alert: It’s not extortion.
As previously reported on this site, in September 2023, Cardiovascular Consultants Ltd. (CVC) in Arizona experienced a ransomware attack. In October 2023, the Qilin ransomware group added CVC to its leak site, claiming to have exfiltrated 520,961 files and 206 GB of data. And in December 2023, CVC announced the breach in a substitute notice…