That Pacific Union College (PUC) experienced a cyberattack is not a secret. The college even posted a notice on their website on April 7 stating that they were experiencing “Additional complications relating to the ongoing cybersecurity issue, which has recently affected some of our internal networks, phone systems, and web services. The remainder of the…
Category: Malware
Malicious Chrome extensions with 75M installs removed from Web Store
Bill Toulas reports: Google has removed from the Chrome Web Store 32 malicious extensions that could alter search results and push spam or unwanted ads. Collectively, they come with a download count of 75 million. The extensions featured legitimate functionality to keep users unaware of the malicious behavior that came in obfuscated code to deliver the…
South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources discloses ransomware attack
South Jersey Behavioral Health Resources has disclosed that they were hit with a ransomware attack on April 3. They do not indicate what group attacked them, or what any ransom demand may have been, and DataBreaches has not seen this incident on any leak site to date. According to their notification, “The investigation remains ongoing,…
Canopy Children’s Solutions continues to investigate ransomware attack in April
In early May, a new group of threat actors known as Nokoyawa added Canopy Children’s Solutions in Mississippi to their leak site. On June 2, Mississippi Children’s Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children’s Home Services, Inc., d.b.a. Canopy Children’s Solutions (“Canopy”) a press release acknowledging that on April 4, they experienced an attack that…
Rhysida ransomware group claims attack on Martinique
A ransomware group that first emerged in May has added the government of Martinique to its leak site. Although there is no current notice on Martinique’s Facebook page, on May 24, they posted a notice about the cyberattack: A machine translation of the notice reads: #Cyberattack Implementation of the continuity plan On May 16,…
Middlesex Co. Public Schools confirms ransomware attack
Jimmy LaRoue reports: The superintendent for Middlesex County Public Schools confirmed Thursday that the school division was the subject of a recent ransomware attack. “We can confirm that Middlesex County Public Schools recently suffered a ransomware attack,” said Superintendent Dr. Tracy Seitz in a statement to 10 On Your Side. “We took immediate action to…