Angelica Mari reports: Websites under Brazil’s Ministry of Health (MoH) have suffered a major ransomware attack that resulted in the unavailability of COVID-19 vaccination data of millions of citizens. Following that attack that took place at around 1 am today, all of MoH’s websites including ConecteSUS, which tracks the trajectory of citizens in the public…
Category: Malware
Russian National Sentenced for Providing Crypting Service for Kelihos Botnet
A Russian national was sentenced today in Hartford federal court to 48 months in prison for operating a “crypting” service used to conceal the Kelihos malware from antivirus software, which enabled hackers to systematically infect approximately hundreds of thousands of victim computers around the world with malicious software, including ransomware. According to court documents, Oleg…
More news items involving ransomware….
It’s gotten impossible to keep up with all the attacks, but here are some in the news today: North American food importer Atalanta revealed that employee information was involved in a ransomware attack. Their statement. Media coverage. Hellmann Worldwide Logistics in Germany was also hit by an attack that has impaired operations. Their statement and…
Ransomwared payroll provider leaks data on 38,000 Australian government workers
Simon Sharwood reports: Personal information describing names, addresses, bank account details, and taxation IDs of 38,000 Australian government employees has been leaked to the dark web after a ransomware attack. The treasurer of the Australian State of South Australia, Rob Lucas, today revealed the source of the leak: outsourced payroll provider Frontier Software. Read more at The…
Ie: Hackers accessed HSE system eight weeks before cyber attack
Dyane Connor reports: The cyber attackers who hacked the Health Service Executive’s IT system, had accessed the system eight weeks before it detonated the malicious software, which caused devastating disruption across healthcare services. A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has found there were several “missed opportunities” after a phishing email was opened allowing the attacker access…
Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”
Brian Krebs fleshes out more about Matthew Philbert, the Canadian man arrested in Canada and charged in both the U.S. and Canada with a number of cybercrimes. Once again, Krebs provides a great example of solid research. Read his report at KrebsOnSecurity. Interestingly, Krebs ends his article with a comment that tends to agree with…