Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On December 20, 2022, the English High Court has granted the victim of a cyber attack a permanent injunction against cyber attackers whilst the victim organization maintains its anonymity. Generally, a claimant’s identity is public in English court proceedings. Injunctions can be made against unknown and unidentifiable defendants enabling them to…
Category: Malware
SickKids reports ‘cybersecurity incident’ affecting some phone lines and web pages
The Canadian Press reports: Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children says it’s responding to a “cybersecurity incident” affecting some of its phone lines, web pages and clinical systems. The hospital says all patient care continues and there is currently no evidence that personal health information has been compromised. SickKids says it called the hospital code for…
Morley Companies data breach $4.3M class action settlement
Top Class Actions reports: Morley Companies Inc. has set aside $4.3 million to settle a class action lawsuit following a ransomware attack that compromised data from its clients and customers. The settlement class, which has been directly notified of the settlement, is defined as U.S. residents whose data was compromised during the data incident the…
Guardian newspaper hit by suspected ransomware attack, staff told not to come to office
Alexander Martin reports: Staff at The Guardian newspaper have been told not to come into the office and to work from home for the rest of the week due to a suspected ransomware attack which struck late on Tuesday. The attack has impacted a number of business services at the 200-year-old news organization, but not…
AG secures settlement with graduation company after data breach
James Wesser reports: Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced on Friday, Dec. 16 a settlement with a graduation memorabilia company after a data security event discovered in April 2021 exposed Pennsylvanians’ private information. “Protecting Pennsylvanians’ personal information and financial data is a key priority of my office,” said AG Shapiro. “Every corporation that does business in…
LockBit 3.0: usurpers multiply and go upmarket
Valéry Rieß-Marchive reports (machine translation): A new impersonator of the LockBit 3.0 ransomware franchise has just been spotted. Like the one who attacked the André-Mignot hospital in Chesnay-Rocquencourt at the beginning of December, he does not offer a Web interface accessible via Tor to discuss with his victims and, if necessary, negotiate the requested ransom: the…