Presstories.com reports: The city of Montmagne is battling a cyber-attack a week ago that led to a complete shutdown of its computer and telephone systems. The ransomware type attack took place from 16 to 17 January. Until yesterday, most of the activities to access the computer system were still blocked, but the Town Hall phone…
Category: Malware
Rady Children’s Hospital sued over Blackbaud breach
Law360 is reporting that Rady Children’s Hospital has been sued over the Blackbaud ransomware breach. The complaint alleges violations of California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act . The hospital had reported in October that they were notifying 19,788 about the breach. Access to the Law360 article is restricted to subscribers, but DataBreaches.net’s tracking file on…
Already in receivership, Nygard hit with ransomware that permanently compromised their IT system
Here’s a ransomware incident that left me wondering whether the attackers — who have not been identified — had researched their victim before attacking and establishing their ransom demands. Read the breach notice, below, published this month, and then a media report on the attack that appears after that. ———————– WINNIPEG, MB, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – …
UK govt gives malware infected laptops to vulnerable students
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Some of the laptops distributed by the UK Department for Education (DfE) to vulnerable students have been found to be infected with malware as reported by the BBC. The devices are given out for free by the government to support disadvantaged students unable to access remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic, including children and young people who have…
Colliers International Group gets slammed by cyberattack
Lyle Adriano reports: Colliers International Group, a Toronto-based commercial real estate services firm, has acknowledged that it suffered a cyberattack last November. However, the company would not confirm whether the cyber incident involved ransomware. A spokesperson for Colliers verified that it had been targeted by a cyberattack after IT World Canada confronted the company about a…
Vendor ransomware attack by Ryuk impacted 21 healthcare entities in 2019
A recent report headlining that 560 healthcare facilities were impacted by ransomware attacks in 2020 may have seemed shocking until you realize any one ransomware attack can impact multiple hospitals or clinics in a network (just think of the Universal Health Services incident where the Pennsylvania-based system took 400 facilities offline when they were attacked). …