Lawrence Abrams reports: US-based ski and golf resort operator Boyne Resorts has suffered a cyberattack by the WastedLocker operation that has impacted company-wide reservation systems. Of special note, Abrams points out that WastedLocker has been linked to threat actors known as Evil Corp (aka the Dridex gang)– a group that has been sanctioned by the…
Category: Malware
Threat actors dump some student data from Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
On October 12, WXYZ reported that Walled Lake Consolidated Schools in Michigan had suffered an attack that impacted their systems: The superintendent sent an email out Sunday night saying email cannot be sent or received, and internet access, along with access to network drives, is down. Skyward Family Access, where parents can see their child’s…
Chenango County hit with cyberattack
Josh Rosenblatt reports: Unable to access any of their computer network, Chenango County employees have had to come up with other solutions. The county Director of Information and Technology Herman Ericksen told 12 News the county system was attacked over the weekend. Hackers locked out employees and demanded $450 for each computer in exchange for…
Japanese drug firm Shionogi hit by cyberattack and data breach
Kyodo News reports: Japanese pharmaceutical firm Shionogi & Co. said Thursday that its Taiwanese subsidiary was hit by a cyberattack earlier this month leading to a data breach, although no information regarding the novel coronavirus vaccine it is currently developing was leaked. Read more on Japan Times. The attack was announced this week by the…
Sonoma Valley Hospital computer systems shut down by ‘security incident’
Anne Ward Ernst reports: Sonoma Valley Hospital reported on Thursday, Oct. 22 that a security incident on Oct. 11 knocked out its computer systems, and is not fully restored. The incident “triggered a significant downtime event,” an official said. Read more on Sonoma News. The hospital’s most recent update, posted on its site, reads: On…
TX: Parker County Impacted by Computer Security Incident
October 19 – On Friday night Oct. 16, 2020, Parker County discovered they were impacted by a computer security incident. Following the discovery, County IT staff quickly isolated the compromised systems to limit the spread of the attack. County elections systems were not impacted. The Parker County Elections systems reside on an isolated network which…