Maggie Miller and Laura Kelly report: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield’s Community Health Plan District of Columbia (CHPDC) suffered a data breach carried out by what it described as a “foreign cybercriminal” group in January that potentially impacted sensitive data, the company told customers this week. The insurance provider notified customers in writing through a letter obtained…
Category: Malware
IT: Gino Group car dealership notifies customers of ransomware attack
Matteo Borgetto reports (translation): «Dear Customer, on 7 April 2021 we unfortunately discovered that our systems had been attacked by unknown hackers. We therefore immediately appointed a specialized company, in order to try to solve the problem and to limit the damage as much as possible ». The letter, via e-mail, was sent to thousands…
Attackers deliver legal threats, IcedID malware via contact form
Sergiu Gatlan reports: … IcedID is a modular banking trojan first spotted in 2017 and updated to also deploy second-stage malware payloads, including Trickbot, Qakbot, and Ryuk ransomware. Recently detected by the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, this phishing campaign seems to have found a way to bypass contact forms’ CAPTCHA protection to flood enterprises with a barrage…
Ransomware attacks: Ansal fears data loss
PTI reports: Realty firm Ansal Housing on Friday said that the company had faced multiple ransomware attacks on its IT system since February 26, which may have resulted in some data loss. The e-mail system had been significantly impacted resulting in non-receipt of any e-mail communication on the e-mail accounts, it said in a regulatory…
Fr: City of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue victim of ransomware; won’t pay €500,000 demand
Daniel Morin reports (translation): This is the first time that the city of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (Vaucluse) has been the victim of such a computer attack , undoubtedly from abroad. It was 4:42 am exactly this Friday morning when hackers broke into the community’s servers remotely. All files have been encrypted and have been unusable since. “…
CZ: Olomouc paralyzed by a cyberattack. All municipal services remain unavailable.
From translations of available sources, it appears that the municipality of was paralyzed by a cyber attack on April 7. The municipality estimated that it would take about 14 days to fully restore services. They do not indicate what kind of ransomware was involved or what demands were made. Read more on Olomouc.cz. Last April,…