Ionut Ilascu reports: Canon has finally confirmed publicly that the cyberattack suffered in early August was caused by ransomware and that the hackers stole data from company servers. BleepingComputer was the first to report the attack after tracking a suspicious outage on the cloud photo and video storage service (image.canon) that caused users to lose files. Read…
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Service provider to fertility clinics discloses malware attack
A press release from US Fertility (“USF”) follows. The Center for Fertility and Gynecology in California is not listed among USF entities in the press release. I mention that because the Center for Fertility and Gynecology still has not posted anything on their site or issued any press release about a ransomware attack that NetWalker…
PA: Part of Delaware County Computer System Down After Attacked By Hackers
Chad Pradelli and Cheryl Mettendorf report: Cybercriminals have attacked the Delaware County, Pennsylvania government network and taken it hostage. The criminals are demanding $500,000 to free it up. Sources told Action News, the cybercriminals gained control of the network on Saturday encrypting files, including police reports, payroll, purchasing, and other databases. Prosecution evidence, however, has…
Danish news agency Ritzau rejects ransom demand after hacker attack
And yet another news agency gets hit with ransomware — this time, though, it’s a Danish one. Associated Press reports that Ritzau “rejected” the ransom demand, but it’s more than that — they wouldn’t even read it, it seems, taking the advice of their advisors. Ritzau CEO Lars Vesterloekke couldn’t say how big the ransom…
Ransomware attack hits Baltimore County Public Schools
Ethan McLeod reports: Baltimore County schools are out one day early during the holiday week after the system’s networks were struck by ransomware. The school system had initially characterized the disruption as “issues with our network” Wednesday morning, but said in a follow-up post on social media that it was attributable to a ransomware attack…
Illinois Valley Community College sends letter warning of data breach
Michael Urbanec reports: Illinois Valley Community College has sent out more than 160,000 letters to current and former students, faculty and applicants warning them that their data may have been compromised in connection with a data breach back in April. This attack was originally noted on this site in April, but this site had followed…