Akeel reports an update to the Barbados hospital’s functioning following their announcement on December 13 of a cyberattack: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) reports progress in resolving its recent cyber attack. In a statement the QEH said ” Our IT team, working with private and international experts continues to work on containing the problem and…
Category: Malware
NJ: Cyberattack at CentraState prompts hospital to divert ambulances
Update of February 10, 2023: This incident reportedly affected 617,000 patients. It is not showing up on HHS’s breach tool yet. CentraState’s substitute notice can be found on their website. Original post: Ken Serrano reports: A cybersecurity problem at CentraState Medical Center has prompted the hospital to divert ambulances and most new patients to other…
Breaking: LockBit 3.0 gives Sick Kids free decryptor, claims to ban partner who attacked them
#LockBit has formally apologized for the attack on the Hospital for Sick Kids in Canada that took place on December 18. The hospital is still trying to recover from it. “We formally apologize for the attack on sikkids.ca and give back the decryptor for free, the partner who attacked this hospital violated our rules, is…
Retreat Behavioral Health addiction treatment centers hit by ransomware earlier this year
Retreat Behavioral Health (RBH) has addiction treatment facilities in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. On July 1, 2022, they reportedly detected a ransomware attack. Letters were sent out this week, but because Massachusetts actually prohibits entities from providing important details in notifications to consumers, there’s a lot we don’t know about this incident yet. Specifically, the…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
BR: Monte Cristalina claimed by LockBit3.0 On December 19, Monte Cristalina S.A. was added to LockBit3.0’s leak site. The group claims to have 135GB of information about the holding company, and has already uploaded some data as proof. Access to Monte Cristalina’s website has been blocked, and we have found no acknowledgement or confirmation by…
NC: Monarch notifies HHS of breach, but where are the details and notice?
On September 1, a listing on a dark web site by a group calling themselves Don#t_Leaks named MonarchNC as a victim. The listing did not appear for long. The only “proof” offered at the time was a filetree and a screencap of what might be an index of an inbox showing monarchnc.org domain in email…