On July 15, the Courcelles Public Center for Social Action (CPAS) issued a statement on its Facebook page: !!Alles CPAS Administrative Services have been forced to stop since Tuesday. We have been the subject of a large-scale cyber attack and our security systems unfortunately have not been able to counter it. The IT Department worked…
Category: Malware
CA: Threat actors dump tens of thousands of driver’s license images and several thousand credit reports for customers of Walter’s Automotive Group
Credit reports for a few thousand customers of Audi Ontario and Porsche Ontario dealerships were dumped by ransomware threat actors who claim they locked Walter’s Automotive Group and exfiltrated data, but Walter’s would not respond to them. More than 22,000 driver’s license images were also in the data dump. If you bought an Audi or…
Il: Ransomware attack on Israeli IT company impacts more than 100 customers, including hospitals
Note: this report is a summary based entirely on machine translation of articles on ynet by Tal Shahaf and Calcalist by Raphael Kahan. Shahaf reports that Pionet , which is owned by Malam Tim, suffered a ransomware attack that has paralyzed many of the company’s systems and the sites of more than a hundred of…
Ransomware incident at major cloud provider disrupts real estate, title industry
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A ransomware incident at Cloudstar, a cloud hosting service and managed service provider for several industry sectors, has disrupted the activities of hundreds of companies. Cloudstar, which operates several data centers across the US, is primarily known in the mortgage, title insurance, real estate, legal, finance, and local government sector, where it…
Kelihos botmaster Peter Levashov to be sentenced today (updated)
It’s been a long time coming — too long, some might say — but the Russian hacker involved in the Kelihos botnet will find out his sentence today. Peter Levashov pleaded guilty in September, 2018. Another Russian national, Oleg Koshkin, 41, formerly of Estonia, operated the websites “Crypt4U.com,” “fud.bz” and others. According to court records…
Geneva, Ohio discloses ransomware attack
Warren Dillaway reports that that the city is investigating a breach. In a statement the city issued, they wrote: “Early Friday morning, July 16, 2021, the City of Geneva discovered an online breach into the city’s website and online data systems. The City of Geneva’s executive management and information technology department immediately began accessing the…