A new listing on Daixin Team’s leak site suggested serious problems for Acadian Ambulance. Acadian Ambulance offers several health-related services, including emergency medical transportation, non-emergency transportation, at-home health care, air services, and medical education. It has locations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Acadian has been in business since 1971, and at this point, employees…
Remember how Suffolk County in New York had decided cyberinsurance was too expensive and how they got hit with a ransomware attack by AlphV in 2022. The county not only had no insurance, but it had no cyberattack recovery plan. Mark Harrington reports another update on that incident: Suffolk County approved more than $25…
West Midlands Police in the UK have announced the arrest of a teenager allegedly involved in the attack on MGM Resorts. That attack has been widely attributed to Scattered Spider, although the announcement does not specifically name the group: Officers from our Regional Organised Crime Unit for the West Midlands (ROCUWM) joined officers from the…
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Russian authorities have allegedly arrested a member of the Trickbot cybercrime gang in Moscow this week. According to a report from Russian news channel Baza, authorities have detained a 37-year-old man named Fedor Andreev on the morning of July 15 in a house in South Moscow. Andreev was allegedly detained based on an Interpol…
The following is a press release issued yesterday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey: Two foreign nationals pleaded guilty today in Newark federal court to participating in the LockBit ransomware group – at various times the most prolific ransomware variant in the world – and to deploying LockBit attacks against victims in…
Angus Dalton reports: Almost 13 million Australians had personal and health-related data stolen in the MediSecure cyberattack earlier this year, making the mass hack one of the largest ever. The Melbourne-based online prescription service company announced it was the victim of a ransomware data breach in May. A week later, a hacker claiming to possess…