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…
Category: Malware
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…
Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City Hit by Cybersecurity Attack Over Holiday Weekend
Seen at http://wycokck.org/: Published on April 19, 2022 UPDATE ON SERVICE IMPACTS: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2022 The Unified Government has been working through a comprehensive assessment of the impact of the recent cybersecurity attack on our systems and services. Work to restore services is underway. As of this afternoon, the following services are impacted: Appraiser’s…
Russian state hackers hit Ukraine with new malware variants
Bill Toulas reports: Threat analysts report that the Russian state-sponsored threat group known as Gamaredon (a.k.a. Armageddon/Shuckworm) is launching attacks against targets in Ukraine using new variants of the custom Pteredo backdoor. Gamaredon has been launching cyber-espionage campaigns targeting the Ukrainian government and other critical entities since at least 2014. Read more at BleepingComputer.