Chris Fisher reports: Officials in Pottawatomie County are assessing the extent of a cyber attack discovered last week. Pottawatomie Co. Public Information Officer Becky Ryan confirms that county IT staff discovered an active cyber attack on Friday, September, 17. Ryan says the breach encrypted multiple servers, which prevented the access of many systems used every day….
Category: Malware
U.S. Treasury Department: Publication of Updated Ransomware Advisory; Cyber-related Designation
Treasury Takes Robust Actions to Counter Ransomware WASHINGTON — As part of the whole-of-government effort to counter ransomware, the U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced a set of actions focused on disrupting criminal networks and virtual currency exchanges responsible for laundering ransoms, encouraging improved cyber security across the private sector, and increasing incident and…
Ransomware Resources for HIPAA Regulated Entities
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is sharing the following information to ensure that HIPAA regulated entities are aware of the resources available to assist in preventing, detecting, and mitigating breaches of unsecured protected health information caused by hacking and ransomware. HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center Threat Briefs: https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/asa/ocio/hc3/products/index.html#sector-alerts January 28, 2021 –…
Adventures in Notification, Ethical Dilemma Edition
Long-time readers know that this blogger has encountered some interesting situations over the years in response to trying to engage in responsible disclosure of leaks or incidents. As just a few examples (apart from all the lawsuit threats for exposing leaks or incidents), this blogger was: — threatened with being infected with HIV by angry…
Responding to a CBS story on Palos Community Consolidated School District 118
On August 10, DataBreaches.net reported on several school districts hit by ransomware attacks. One of the districts discussed in that report was Palos Community Consolidated School District 118 in Illinois. In that section of the report, DataBreaches.net summarized some of the personnel and student data we had found in the threat actors’ data dump: There…
Exabytes Falls Victim To Ransomware Attack: Causes Disruptions To Certain Services
Chief Chapree reports: Mainly known for its domain and web hosting services, Exabytes has revealed that it has experienced a ransomware attack. According to a notice that was posted in the Community Forums of its support website at 9:12 PM yesterday, the company first detected the incident at 5:00 AM. As you may expect, the…