Yaron Doron reports: The computer systems of Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera were targeted Wednesday morning by a ransomware cyberattack. Hillel Yaffe asked that Magen David Adom and the Health Ministry send them only patients requiring urgent care. Ongoing medical care was uninterrupted, although elective procedures were put on hold. Read more on Israel…
Category: Malware
Cyberattack shuts down Ecuador’s largest bank, Banco Pichincha
Lawrence Abrams reports: Ecuador’s largest private bank Banco Pichincha has suffered a cyberattack that disrupted operations and taken the ATM and online banking portal offline. The cyberattack occurred over the weekend, causing the bank to shut down portions of their network to prevent the attack’s spread to other systems. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Olympus US systems hit by cyberattack over the weekend
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Olympus, a leading medical technology company, was forced to take down IT systems in the Americas (U.S., Canada, and Latin America) following a cyberattack that hit its network Sunday, October 10, 2021. “Upon detection of suspicious activity, we immediately mobilized a specialized response team including forensics experts, and we are currently working…
ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics notifies approximately 350,000 patients after ransomware incident
Quest-owned ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics, Inc. has notified approximately 350,000 patients whose data may have been accessed in a ransomware attack on Aug 8. The attack by unnamed threat actors was discovered on August 10, and Reprosource quickly severed all network connection activity and contained the incident. Although they have no evidence that any protected health…
Za: Ransomware attack crisis over, says justice department
Gill Gifford reports: Most online services, the payment of child maintenance to beneficiaries and the electronic recording of court proceedings is virtually back to normal after last month’s ransomware attack on the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. The September attack led to a massive crisis, causing major disruptions to all divisions — including the…
Ransomware Group FIN12 Aggressively Going After Healthcare Targets
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: An “aggressive” financially motivated threat actor has been identified as linked to a string of RYUK ransomware attacks since October 2018, while maintaining close partnerships with TrickBot-affiliated threat actors and using a publicly available arsenal of tools such as Cobalt Strike Beacon payloads to interact with victim networks. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant attributed…