Elias Groll and AJ Vicens report: Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, cybersecurity firm Fortra and the Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center announced legal action Thursday to seize domains related to criminal activity involving cracked copies of the security testing application Cobalt Strike, which has become a favorite tool for cybercriminals to carry out attacks around…
Category: Malware
Ransomware Attack at NJ County Police Department Locks Up Criminal Investigative Files
Jonathan Dienst reports: The Camden County Police Department experienced a ransomware attack that has been locking many criminal investigative files and day-to-day internal administration abilities, several law enforcement officials said. Investigators said the attack started in the middle of March and technicians continue working to try to get all systems back up and running. Read more at NBC.
Oakland remains behind an 8-ball in responding to ransomware attack
Sarah Ravani reports: Oakland’s police union filed a claim against the city after a ransomware attack released personal information for thousands of current and former city employees, union officials said Monday. The legal filing, which asks for monetary damages of up to $25,000 per affected employee, argues that the city failed to implement “reasonable, industry-standard…
Money Message ransomware gang claims MSI breach, demands $4 million
Bill Toulas reports: Taiwanese PC parts maker MSI (Micro-Star International) has been listed on the extortion portal of a new ransomware gang known as “Money Message,” which claims to have stolen source code from the company’s network. MSI is a global hardware giant that makes motherboards, graphics cards, desktops, laptops, servers, industrial systems, PC peripherals,…
Noteboom – The Law Firm hit by BlackCat
On March 24, BlackCat emailed Noteboom – The Law Firm, a Texas personal injury law firm. The email, shared with DataBreaches by BlackCat, appeared to be sent from the firm’s own systems administrator, Paul Khong. With some light editing by DataBreaches to correct some typos, it read: This is [ALPHV] aka BlackCat Ransomware Team. We…
Illinois’s Olympia CUSD 16 hit by LockBit3.0
LockBit3.0 claims to have hit the Olympia CUSD 16 in Illinois. So far, they have posted 4 files as proof, one of which appears to be a screencap of a directory of folders that might relate to Olympia North, Olympia South, and students, and another file with employee health-related information. There does not appear to…