In August, threat actors calling themselves AvosLocker announced that they had attacked Moorfields NHS UK & Dubai. DataBreaches.net’s investigation at that point indicated that the data they provided as proof came from the Dubai hospital and did not involve any UK personnel or patients. In a statement to this site, Moorfields confirmed that there had…
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Technology giant Olympus hit by BlackMatter ransomware
Zack Whittaker reports: Olympus said in a brief statement Sunday that it is “currently investigating a potential cybersecurity incident” affecting its European, Middle East and Africa computer network. […] But according to a person with knowledge of the incident, Olympus is recovering from a ransomware attack that began in the early morning of September 8….
SuspectFile intervista AvosLocker: nuovi dettagli sulla variante avos2
Marco A. DeFelice has a post about AvosLocker that is in both Italian and English, in different parts. The English part is a bit of an interview or chat Marco had with their spokesperson. They use the opportunity to explain how superior they believe their new variant, .avos2, is. You can read it all on…
Missouri Delta Medical Center silent about patient data dump and claimed ransomware attack
“Full ICU at Missouri Delta Medical Center, workers scramble to keep up with COVID-19 surge,” a headline informed us earlier this week. And if they weren’t struggling enough already, it appears that Missouri Delta Medical Center (MDMC) might also be dealing with a ransomware attack by Hive threat actors. So far, however, MDMC has been…
NY: Rehabilitation Support Services notifies clients and employees of data breach
In July, DataBreaches.net reported that threat actors calling themself “Grief” claimed to have attacked NY-based Rehabilitation Support Services (RSS), an agency that provides services to more than 3,000 individuals with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders each year. Grief claimed to have exfiltrated 4 GB of data from RSS, and offered some small proof of claim. For…
All of Desert Wells Family Medicine patients’ electronic health records were corrupted and unrecoverable from ransomware attack
On August 30, HHS added Queen Creek Medical Center d/b/a Desert Wells Family Medicine in Arizona to its public breach tool. The entity had reported that 35,000 patients were impacted by a breach involving a hack of the network. We now have more details on that incident available thanks to a public disclosure of their…