On August 5, 2024, McLaren Healthcare became aware of suspicious activity affecting McLaren Health Care and Karmanos Cancer Institute computer systems. In an early statement about the incident, McLaren indicated that the attack affected IT systems across its 13 hospitals, cancer treatment centers, surgery centers, and clinics. In an August 12 update, McLaren reported that…
Category: Malware
CoinMarketCap Hacked, Scrambles to Remove Malicious Wallet Verification Popup
Amin Ayan reports: CoinMarketCap was hacked on Friday after a malicious popup appeared on its website, urging users to “verify” their wallets. The phishing-style notification asked users to connect their wallets and approve ERC-20 token access, raising immediate red flags across the crypto community. Wallet providers like MetaMask and Phantom quickly flagged the site as…
Qilin Offers “Call a lawyer” Button For Affiliates Attempting To Extort Ransoms From Victims Who Won’t Pay
Graham Cluley reports: Imagine for one moment that you are a cybercriminal. You have compromised an organisation’s network, you have stolen their data, you have encrypted their network, and you are now knee-deep in the ransomware negotiation. However, there’s a problem. Your target is stalling for time. Who can you, as the perpetrator of the…
Ryuk ransomware’s initial access expert extradited to the U.S. from Ukraine
Bill Toulas reports: A member of the notorious Ryuk ransomware operation who specialized in gaining initial access to corporate networks has been extradited to the United States. The suspect is a 33-year-old foreign man who was arrested in April 2025 in his home in Kyiv at the request of the FBI. He was extradited to…
Hospital cyberattack investigation complete, no formal review needed (1)
Paul Pedro reports a follow-up to the massive ransomware attack on Ontario hospitals via an attack on TransForm by the Daixin threat actors: The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) has completed a review into a massive cyberattack on five regional hospitals in 2023 and found hospital officials acted “adequately.” But in its decision,…
IMPACT: 170 patients harmed as a result of Qilin’s ransomware attack on NHS vendor Synnovis
PA News Agency reports that as a result of the attack, more than 10,000 appointments were cancelled at the two London NHS trusts that were worst affected, and a significant number of GP practices in London were unable to order blood tests for their patients. Now the Health Service Journal (HSJ) [paywalled] has reported that…