Damien Bancal reports (machine translation): At the end of May, the Canadian College MontMorency announced that it had suffered a cyber attack with a possible theft of personal data. ZATAZ confirms: pirates have copied everything, and they are starting to broadcast. Read more at Zataz. This was an Avos Locker attack.
Category: Malware
Rhode Island sewer-system operator hit by cyber attack
Paul Edward Parker reports: The Narragansett Bay Commission, which runs sewer systems in parts of the metropolitan Providence and Blackstone Valley areas, was hit by a ransomware attack on its computer systems. […] “Last week, the Narragansett Bay Commission identified a cybersecurity incident that involved the encryption of data on certain computers and systems in its…
Baton Rouge General Medical Center ransomware attack has caused patients to be diverted to other hospitals, lost records, and lab services down — source
By July 1, word was circulating that the Baton Rouge General Medical Center in Louisiana had been hit by ransomware. A copy of the ransom note shared with DataBreaches pointed clearly to the Hive group, but when asked about it, Hive’s spokesperson claimed that DataBreaches had “incorrect info.” Since then, the medical center has not…
Ransomware attacks on educational institutions shoot up sharply: Sophos’ report
K.V. Kurmanath reports: …In the absence of proper cyber security shields and defence mechanisms, the number of ransomware attacks in this sector has gone up significantly, said a report by Sophos, a British-based security software and hardware company. “The ‘State of Ransomware in Education 2022’ finds that about 60 per cent of the education institutions…
Oklahoma State University – Center for Health Services Pays $875,000 to Settle Hacking Breach
There’s an update to a breach previously reported on this site in 2018. From HHS: Oklahoma State University – Center for Health Sciences (OSU-CHS) has paid $875,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and agreed to implement a corrective action plan to settle potential…
Holy Ghost ransomware operation linked to North Korean hackers
Ionut Ilascu reports: For more than a year, North Korean hackers have been running a ransomware operation called HolyGhost, attacking small businesses in various countries. The group has been active for quite a while but it failed to gain the notoriety and financial success of other gangs even if the operation followed the same recipe:…