WLOS reports from North Carolina: A local non-profit that works with thousands of seniors has had a security breach. The director of Buncombe County’s Council on Aging believes someone hit the non-profit’s computers with ransomware Monday and staff were concerned private information might have been stolen. News 13 has confirmed Asheville police are involved.
Category: Malware
United States and EU Foster Cooperation Against Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware has become a global problem that requires cooperation on a worldwide level. Judicial experts and practitioners from the United States and the European Union participated in a two-day workshop in The Hague organized by the U.S. Department of Justice and Eurojust. The event aimed to share best practices and enhance collaboration in confronting ransomware…
Baptist Medical Center and Resolute Health Hospital notifying patients after malware attack snagged patient data
Baptist Medical Center in San Antonio and Resolute Health Hospital in New Braunfels have disclosed a cyberattack involving unspecified malicious code that infected their system. According to statements made by IDX on their behalf, an unauthorized party accessed and exfiltrated data from their network between March 31, 2022 and April 24. The attack was first…
Tenafly Public Schools Canceled Finals After Ransomware Attack
Jackie Roman reported this on June 9: Tenafly Public Schools went back to the basics this week — using overhead projectors, paper, pencils and hands-on activities in classrooms — when a ransomware attack crippled the district’s computer system. Final exams were also canceled for all of the district’s high school students as the Bergen County…
SCOOP: Glenn County Office of Education paid $400k ransom after ransomware attack
On May 12, the Sacramento Valley Mirror (SVM) reported on a ransomware attack on the Glenn County Office of Education and school districts. According to GlennCOE, the attack began in the early morning of May 10, and as SVM reported: Put out of commission systemwide for GCOE, school districts, and schools were the Internet, the…
ALPHV threat actors claim to have attacked Plainedge Public Schools
ALPHV threat actors (also known as BlackCat) have added a Long Island school district to their leak site: Plainedge Public Schools. The ransomware group has not started leaking any databases, but warns the district that they will if they do not hear from them. The district consists of the Charles E. Schwarting Elementary School,…