In February 2022, NFL’s San Francisco 49ers confirmed a ransomware attack by BlackByte. This week they started mailing notification letters to more than 20,000 people. * * * In a bizarre incident, hackers broke into the ride-hailing service provider Yandex Taxi’s software and sent dozens of cars to the same location, resulting in a traffic…
Category: Malware
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Argentina: More than 14,000 Reports Last Year Between April 2020 and March 2021, the Specialized Cybercrime Prosecution Unit registered 14,583 reports of cases associated with cybercrime, a 465% increase over the previous year. The #DatosEnFuga project attempts to improve security and data protection. It is an initiative of the organizations Democracia en Red, Fundación Vía Libre…
CSIRT: Cyber Security Alert: Public Service Incident
NOTE: The following CSIRT alert relates to the SERNAC incident previously reported on DataBreaches. The alert is reproduced in machine translation of the original Spanish. The Computer Security Incident Response Team, Government CSIRT , reports on an incident in progress that affects a government service, during the day of Thursday, August 25, which has interrupted the…
Medical billing service in Florida one of the latest victims of ransomware attacks
Add NCG Medical to business associates who a ransomware attack has compromised. The medical billing service in Florida was added to the Hive ransomware group’s leak site on August 31, with Hive claiming that they encrypted NCG’s files on August 19. The 12-day gap between encryption and publicly revealing the attack is a relatively short…
Police ‘negotiating with hackers’ who hit Paris hospital computer system
Adam Sage reports: An elite French police unit is reportedly negotiating with hackers demanding a seven-figure ransom after paralysing the computer system of a Paris region hospital. Le Parisien newspaper said the Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN), the French military police unit that specialises in terrorism, hostage-taking and other such crimes, was involved in…
JP: Minamiboso City school affairs network hit by ransomware in July; still not fully recovered
It is not only schools in the US and the UK that have been affected by ransomware. A report from Minamiboso City in the Shiba Prefecture of Japan announced that the network used by the city’s primary and secondary schools had been attacked by ransomware. On July 19, the Minamiboso City Board of Education confirmed…