On May 12, 2022, Vicksburg-Warren School District in Mississippi issued a breach notification. Its explanation begins, “On or around May 28, 2021, VWSD detected unusual activity within its digital environment.” Investigation revealed that files with personal information “may have been accessed or acquired.” The “may have been” seems a bit vague given that threat actors calling…
Category: Malware
Conti abandons all pretense at professionalism, issues increasingly strident threats as Costa Rica struggles
Conti ransomware actors have created a national emergency in Costa Rica, where the government declared a state of emergency. Multiple government agencies have reportedly been impacted by an attack in April and the government’s refusal to pay the ransom demands. Kevin Collier of NBC reported: The official declaration, published on a government website Wednesday, said that the attack…
Most organizations hit by ransomware would pay up if hit again
Dan Robinson reports: Almost nine in 10 organizations that have suffered a ransomware attack would choose to pay the ransom if hit again, according to a new report, compared with two-thirds of those that have not experienced an attack. The findings come from a report titled “How business executives perceive ransomware threat” by security company…
Cybercriminal Sentenced To Federal Prison For Decrypting The Credentials Of Thousands Of Computers Across The World And Selling Them On A Dark Web Website
There is an update to the case against Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev, a Ukrainian who was extradited here in September, 2021 after being arrested in Poland in October, 2020: Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev (28, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) to four years in federal prison for conspiring to traffic…
Refuah Health Center “recently discovered” a breach that was listed on the dark web in June, 2021?
On April 29, 2022, Refuah Health Center in New York issued a statement on their website that begins: The privacy and security of the personal and protected health information we maintain is of the utmost importance to Refuah Health Center. We recently discovered unauthorized access to our network occurred between May 31, 2021 and June…
Za: Over 3.6m records exposed in Dis-Chem cyber attack
Admire Moyo reports: Pharmacy retail giant Dis-Chem has become the latest South African organisation to fall victim to a cyber attack. According to the company, the cyber incident emanating from its third-party service provider resulted in data of over 3.6 million South Africans being compromised. The news comes barely two months after TransUnion’s systems were compromised, leaving millions of…