Plastic surgery groups continue to be an attractive target for threat actors, and this week we learned that Transform Hospital Group in the U.K. has been attacked by REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware threat actors. As proof, the REvil posted some screen shots of directories (a portion of one appears below). In a post on their dark…
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Leon Medical Center confirms ransomware attack, credits employees and staff with providing quality care despite attack
One of the medical entities recently identified as a victim of a ransomware attack is Leon Medical Centers (LMC) in Florida. Founded in 1996, LMC expanded over the years into a comprehensive outpatient healthcare system that includes seven medical centers among other healthcare services. LMC offers a range of services to Medicare patients as well…
Ca: DuBreton Meats Victim of Cyber Attack
Fabienne Tercaefs reports (translation): A major outage has affected the company [Viandes Dubreton] and IT teams have been working to restore the situation since last night. The servers were affected and it is mainly the administrative services that are affected. Production is running normally. No confidential data appears to have been compromised. Several companies have…
FR: Albertville hospital victim of ransomware attack
Justine Leblond reports (translation): Since 4 am, this Monday, December 21, the Center Hospitalier Albertville-Moûtiers (CHAM) has been the victim of a cyber attack. Several sites are affected: the two branches in Albertville and Moûtiers, as well as the EHPAD and the Claude Léger and Les Cordeliers long-term care units. Several equipment, servers, software and part of the…
Roanoke College delays spring semester after cyberattack
Lawrence Abrams reports that Roanoke College in Virginia is delaying the start of spring semester while they continue to try to recover from what sounds like a ransomware attack. “On Saturday, Dec. 12, Roanoke College experienced a cyber event which impacts our ability to access files. The College’s IT staff disconnected the College’s network and…
One year later, Saskatchewan government still isn’t sure what data were exfiltrated in cyberattack
Back in June, Canadian news outlets provided an update on a ransomware attack on Saskatchewan’s eHealth system that had occurred on December 20, 2019. Now as the year draws to a close, the government still doesn’t know whether personal information was compromised in the attack. And no, this is not uncommon. It is often very…