KOCO5 has a brief item involving Stillwater Medical Center: Stillwater Medical Center officials say they recently discovered an electronic security breach that affected some of their systems. A social media post said they “immediately took steps to ensure the security of our environment, launched an investigation with the assistance of a computer forensic firm and notified law…
Category: Malware
Kr: HMM email systems hit by cyber virus attack
Marcus Hand reports that the South Korean shipping line has disclosed a breach: HMM said that an unidentified security breach was detected to its email servers in the early hours of 12 June leading to limited access to email systems. Over the following two days it said most of the confirmed damage to the system…
WI: Menominee Casino Resort temporarily closes after cyberattack
Ben Bokun and Alice Reid report: The Menominee Casino Resort confirms it’s experiencing technical difficulties following a cyberattack. A statement from the casino said the issues were caused by an “attempted external attack on our computer systems.” Tribal Legislature Chairman Gunnar Peters told NBC 26 the security breach happened Friday. The hit to the casino was…
Br: Macaé municipality points to ransomware-type cyberattack
On June 9, Macaé issued a statement that it suffered a cyberattack. The following is a machine translation: Macaé City Hall was the target of a cyber attack on the 3rd of June, the Corpus Christi holiday. Malware (a type of program designed to infect a user’s computer and harm it in various ways) has hit…
Update on Union Community School District ransomware incident
On June 1, DataBreaches.net reported that DoppelPaymer threat actors had apparently attacked Union Community School District in Iowa and exfiltrated data about employees and students. Neither the district’s superintendent nor any board of education members had responded to this site’s inquiries about whether there had been any public disclosure of the breach that occurred in…
Avaddon ransomware shuts down and releases decryption keys
Lawrence Abrams reports: The Avaddon ransomware gang has shut down operation and released the decryption keys for their victims to BleepingComputer.com. This morning, BleepingComputer received an anonymous tip pretending to be from the FBI that contained a password and a link to a password-protected ZIP file. […] In total, the threat actors sent us 2,934 decryption…