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…
Category: Malware
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,…
Ransomware gang creates site for employees to search for their stolen data
Lawrence Abrams reports: The ALPHV ransomware gang, aka BlackCat, has brought extortion to a new level by creating a dedicated website that allows the customers and employees of their victim to check if their data was stolen in an attack Read more at BleepingComputer.
Montrose Environmental Group Says Ransomware Attack Took Place Over Weekend
Denny Jacob reports: Montrose Environmental Group Inc. said Tuesday that it determined it was the target of a ransomware attack over the weekend. The environmental services company said it believes the attack primarily affected computers and servers within its Enthalpy Analytical laboratory network based on currently available information. Montrose said fact patterns of the attack…