Update November 17, 2022: Forefront has reportedly settled a class action lawsuit for $3.75 million. Update: July 12, 2021: Post-publication, DataBreaches.net learned that external counsel for Forefront Management, LLC and Forefront Dermatology, S.C. reported the incident to the Maine Attorney General’s Office as impacting 4,431 patients. On July 14, however, this incident was added to…
Category: Malware
‘Shut down everything:’ Global Kaseya ransomware attack takes a small Maryland town offline
Chris Velazco and Rachel Lerman report: It was just after 12:30 p.m. on the Friday before the Fourth of July holiday when a warning popped up on Laschelle McKay’s computer screen. McKay, the town administrator for Leonardtown, Md., didn’t even have time to read the whole message before it disappeared and her computer froze. “Everything…
Cyberattacks continue to interfere with vaccination efforts and municipal governments
Cyberattacks continue elsewhere as the two reports below show. One attack impacted the COVID-19 vaccination portal in the country of Georgia. An unrelated attack affected a municipality in Romania. Georgia Like many countries, Georgia has been dealing with a significant increase in number of new COVID cases after previously lifting some restrictions. On July 2,…
India under attack by rapidly-evolving advanced persistent threat actor SideCopy, says Cisco Talos
Simon Sharwood reports: Cisco’s Talos security unit says it has detected an increased rate of attacks on targets on the Indian subcontinent and named an advanced persistent threat actor named SideCopy as the source. The outfit on Wednesday posted that it has tracked “an increase in SideCopy’s activities targeting government personnel in India using themes and tactics…
Ransomware-hit law firm gets court order asking crooks not to publish the data they stole
Gareth Corfield reports on what sounds like a legal Hail Mary play: A barristers’ chambers hit by a ransomware attack has responded by getting a court order demanding the criminals do not share stolen data. 4 New Square chambers, which counts IT dispute experts among its ranks, obtained a privacy injunction from the High Court…
Digging into Decoder.re in Kaseya ransom notes– threat intel by Resecurity
Interesting #threatintel thread on Twitter this morning from Resecurity (Full disclosure: I worked with one of their team a number of years ago.). Their research findings do not seem to be up on their web site at this time, so hopefully you can access it on Twitter. The thread begins here. In light of the…