Ragini Saxena reports: IndiGo, India’s biggest airline, said some segments of its data servers were breached in a hacking incident in December, which may compromise some data. “There is a possibility that some internal documents may get uploaded by the hackers on public websites and platforms,” IndiGo said in a statement Thursday. “We realise the…
Category: Malware
Lithuania’s public health body comes under cyber attack; infected emails contain emotet trojan
Jūratė Damulytė and Ignas Jačauskas of BNS report a Trojan.Emotet virus is making the rounds in email attachments sent to Lithuanian government institutions, ministries, and individuals who were contacted by National Public Health Centre (NVSC) specialists whose accounts were first infected by the virus. Lithuania’s National Public Health Centre (NVSC) came under a cyber attack…
FR: Grand Annecy hit by malware attack
And here we go… yet another French city and agglomeration have been hit by malware Is any French news outlet going to find out and tell us what kind of malware and what the ransom demands are, if there are demands? Translation from Le Dauphiné follows: During the night of December 27 to 28, the…
Cornelia, Georgia hit by ransomware attack on the day after Christmas
Posted on: December 29, 2020 by the City of Cornelia: City of Cornelia Ransomware Incident The City of Cornelia is dealing with a ransomware incident that began on December 26. We have anticipated situations such as this and, out of an abundance of caution, we have taken down our network while we investigate and restore our…
EXCLUSIVE: Conti describes how they attacked Leon Medical Centers; shows DataBreaches.net almost 2 million patient-related files
I’ve always resisted any urge to write a “worst breaches of the year” piece at the beginning of December because I just know that if I do, there’s going to be something that would be on my “worst” list if only I had waited a few weeks. The Conti ransomware attack on Leon Medical Centers…
Antwerp laboratory becomes latest victim of cyber-attack
Alan Hope reports a ransomware attack on a laboratory that “handles about 3,000 Covid-19 tests a day, or about 5% of he national total. As such, it is the largest private lab in the country dealing with the Covid-19 crisis.” The attack took place on the General Medical Laboratory (AML) in the Antwerp district of…