Hallie Miller reports: One month after a crippling ransomware incident, Greater Baltimore Medical Center is beginning to restore the Towson hospital’s electronic medical records, officials said this week. GBMC previously disclosed little about the Dec. 6 cyberattack, which disrupted the health care system’s communication and data-keeping infrastructure and forced it to take systems offline and reschedule…
Category: Malware
Personal data of ANWB customers may have been stolen after a cyber attack
ANP reports that ANWB (the Royal Dutch Touring Club) has sent an email to former and current members to warn them that their data may have been compromised in cyber attack. The attack was not on ANWB’s own system, it seems, but a collection agency that they use for delinquent accounts — Trust Krediet Beheer…
Belgian consultancy Finalyse emerges unscathed from ransomware attack
Pieterjan Van Leemputten reports that one of Avaddon’s victims successfully aborted a ransomware attack and was able to restore from backup. And worse for the attackers, Finalyse reportedly isn’t concerned about the 98 GB Avaddon claims to have exfiltrated. The attackers posted a screencap of the directory to pressure Finalyse, but it seems to have…
“Without Undue Delay, Part 1:” Update on earlier ransomware cases
In November, DataBreaches.net published a commentary arguing that patients need to be notified sooner of ransomware dumps even if HIPAA would seem to allow up to 60 days. As a companion to that piece, this site looked at 30 claimed ransomware attacks on U.S. healthcare entities that had been revealed on dedicated leak sites by…
Attacks targeting healthcare organizations spike globally as COVID-19 cases rise again– Researchers
Check Point writes: At the end of October 2020, we reported that hospitals and healthcare organizations had been targeted by a rising wave of ransomware attacks, with the majority of attacks using the infamous Ryuk ransomware. This followed a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory issued by the CISA, FBI and HHS, which warned of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to US hospitals…
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit provides an update on its breach
On October 15, Gemini Advisory reported that the Joker’s Stash dark web marketplace had uploaded its then-latest breach, titled “BLAZINGSUN.” Gemini Advisory determined that the compromised point of purchase (CPP) was Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, a US-based restaurant franchise. Gemini reported on their findings here, and in their annual write-up, they reported that while Joker’s Stash…