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…
Category: Malware
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…
Tamil Nadu Public Department comes under ransomware attack
S. Vijay Kumar reports: A ransomware attack is said to have encrypted certain sensitive documents of the Tamil Nadu Public Department since Friday morning. Some of the files encrypted relate to VIP visits, their programmes and related arrangements made by State Protocol officials, official sources said. While the suspect has demanded payment of 1,950 USD…
BlackMatter Hits Grain Cooperative With Ransomware Attack
William Turton reports: Iowa-based grain cooperative New Cooperative Inc. was struck by ransomware in recent days and has shut down its computer systems as it tries to mitigate the attack. The attack occurred on or around Friday, according to Allan Liska, senior threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future Inc. The ransomware gang, which goes by the name…
Getting caught up: Conti domains seized by Irish Garda
A story by Stephen Breen inThe Irish Sun yesterday included reference to an update on the HSE attack by Conti: Earlier this month, cops seized several websites belonging to the Russian gang behind the attack in a major “disruption operation”. If anyone logs on to the sites they will see a screen warning the site…
PA: Horizon House notifying patients of ransomware attack in March
I do not recall ever seeing Horizon House in Philadelphia listed on any dedicated leak site used by ransomware groups, but according to a press release issued last week, Horizon House experienced a ransomware attack in March 2 and March 5 of this year that encrypted their files and allowed the unknown threat actor to…