Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ukrainian authorities have detained five members part of a ransomware gang that carried out attacks against more than 50 companies across Europe and the Americas. The arrests, which took place earlier this week, targeted the group’s leader, a 36-year-old Kyiv resident, his wife, and three acquaintances. Officials said the group hacked into…
Category: Malware
OH: Memorial Health System notifies 216,478 patients of malware incident last July
In November, Marietta Area Health Care Inc. dba Memorial Health System notified HHS of a breach. The number affected was submitted as 501 — a number that this site often interprets as just a marker to show that the entity knows there was more than 500 patients to notify, but hasn’t yet figured out exactly…
Saved by the backups: Hospital Centro de Andalucia recovered quickly from ransomware attack
Some ransomware groups have pledged not to attack healthcare facilities. Vice Society is not one of them, as their recent attack on a Spanish hospital reminds us. Amaveca Salud provides a number of in-patient and outpatient services and therapies. Last year, they inaugurated a private hospital, Hospital Centro de Andalucia in Lucena, Spain. When…
PA: Butler County Community College data from November ransomware attack appears on dark web
When Vice Society threat actors added Butler Community College in Kansas to their leak site, DataBreaches.net began digging into the data dump, only to discover that it was not the Kansas community college that had been attacked at all, but rather, it was Butler County Community College (“BC3”) in Butler, Pennsylvania that they had attacked….
School’s out as cyberattack forces Albuquerque Public Schools to cancel classes
Olivier Uytterbrouck and Jessica Dyer report: A cyberattack against Albuquerque Public Schools prompted the state’s largest district to cancel all classes districtwide on Thursday and possibly Friday. APS Superintendent Scott Elder said the attack was discovered Wednesday morning “when teachers tried to log onto our student information system and were unable to gain access to…
Ransomware puts New Mexico prison in lockdown: Cameras, doors go offline
Thomas Claburn reports: Bernalillo County, New Mexico, has been unable to comply with the settlement terms of a 27-year-old lawsuit over prison conditions because of a ransomware attack last week that saw prisoners back under manual control. County officials on January 6, 2022, filed a notice [PDF] with the New Mexico District Court overseeing the…