Here’s another breach that has not been in the headlines (or at least, not yet). On November 8, 2020, Nexelis Group discovered that their system had been encrypted by malware. According to the notification letter sent to patients in April, the information was contained on the server of a company that Nexelis recently acquired, Pacific Biomarkers….
Category: Malware
Malware group leaks millions of stolen authentication cookies
Catalin Cimpanu reports: To add insult to injury, after users were infected by a malware strain that stole their passwords and personal data, the malware operators forgot to secure their backend servers, which leaked sensitive user information for hundreds of thousands of victims for more than a month. For weeks, Bob Diachenko, Cyber Threat Intelligence Director at…
Ryuk ransomware finds foothold in bio research institute through student who wouldn’t pay for software
Charlie Osborne reports: Security researchers have provided insight into how a single student unwittingly became the conduit for a ransomware infection that cost a biomolecular institute a weeks’ worth of vital research. In a report due to be published on Thursday, Sophos described the case, in which the team was pulled in to neutralize an active cyberattack…
Fr: Ransomware attack on environmental center resulted in data loss
La Nouvelle Republique reports that the Permanent Center for Environmental Initiatives of Gâtine (CPIE) experienced a cyberattack on April 18 that resulted in irretrievable data loss. “We had a cryptographic virus that got into our computer server. When we opened the system, all our files had the same name. And if we wanted to decrypt…
CaptureRx – Notice of Data Incident (Update 3)
NOTE: This post is no longer being updated. Please see this article for updates on this incident. Update of May 17: Add Ascension Standish Hospital (1705} and Ascension St. Joseph Hospital (5807). Update of May 12: Add Walmart to your list of covered entities who had patients impacted by the CaptureRx breach. CaptureRx notified them…
AU: Avaddon threat attackers demand ransom from NSW Labor
NSW Labor is Australia’s Labor Party (New South Wales Branch). Now Avaddon threat actors claim that they have hacked them and stolen data. NSW Labor, the company does not want to cooperate with us, so we give them 240 hours to communicate and cooperate with us. If this does not happen before the time counter…