Danny Palmer reports: Schools and universities are facing an unprecedented level of ransomware attacks as incidents continue to severely impact the education sector. The warning comes from Jisc, a not-for-profit organisation that provides network and IT services to higher education and research institutions. Jisc’s ‘Cyber Impact 2022’ report suggests there’s an increased threat of ransomware attacks against education. Read…
Category: Malware
FBI: BlackCat ransomware scratched 60-plus orgs
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: IN BRIEF The BlackCat ransomware gang, said to be the first-known ransomware group to successfully break into networks with Rust-written malware, has attacked at least 60 organizations globally as of March, according to the FBI. BlackCat, also known as ALPHV, is a relatively new group of cybercriminals that operates a Windows ransomware-as-a-service….
Cyber attack causes chaos in Costa Rica government systems
Javier Cordoba and Christopher Sherman report: Nearly a week into a ransomware attack that has crippled Costa Rican government computer systems, the country refused to pay a ransom as it struggled to implement workarounds and braced itself as hackers began publishing stolen information. The Russian-speaking Conti gang claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Costa…
Lewis and Clark Community College sends out notifications concerning ransomware incident
As reported previously, Lewis and Clark Community College was hit with a ransomware attack in November, 2021. They announced it immediately due to impact on the functioning of their systems, but it appears that they are just now issuing breach notification letters to individuals. Their notification letter says that information was encrypted but that there…
Wawa wants a refund, says Mastercard owes $32 million for data breach penalties
Joseph N. DiStefano reports: Wawa, the Delaware County-based convenience store and gas station chain, paid $10.7 million last year linked to a 2019 breach of its customer payment security systems. But now it wants that money back — and more. On Monday in federal court in New York, Wawa sued Mastercard, the giant payment-card network,…
REvil ransomware group’s infrastructure comes back online hinting at fresh campaign
Connor Jones reports: ….. Some researchers noted the return of REvil’s ‘happy blog’ – the place where it announced its hacks – on 19 April, returning an Nginx 404 error. Others said the signs of a return started as far back as December, one month after law enforcement made the original arrests of the gang members. Using the…