Ted Kobus, a partner at BakerHostetler was interviewed this week in a podcast on ransomware. Ted had this to say, among other things: Ted Kobus: So approximately 25% of the incidents we worked on in 2019 involved ransomware. We love to talk about how 2020 is the year that you fill in the blank. But…
Category: Malware
De: Ransomware attack at the GWG housing association
PresseBox reports (translated): As it became known yesterday, the Munich GWG housing association has been the victim of a ransomware attack. Much of the company’s IT systems and data is affected; even backup servers and other data backups were encrypted in the course of the attack. As always with such attacks, the hackers stated that they would…
Mount Locker ransomware now targets your TurboTax tax returns
Lawrence Abrams reports: The Mount Locker ransomware operation is gearing up for the tax season by specifically targeting TurboTax returns for encryption. Mount Locker is a relatively new ransomware operation that began infecting victims in July 2020. Like other human-operated ransomware gangs, the Mount Locker gang will compromise networks, harvest unencrypted files to be used for…
Ca: The former Coop fédérée is the target of cyber hackers
Victoria Smith reports: Quebec’s largest agricultural company, Sollio Groupe coopératif, suffered a ransomware attack on November 7. The cyber hackers are threatening to publish the mass of data they have stolen in [now less than two days]. Sollio, formerly La Coop fédérée, thus becomes the largest business victim of a cyberattack in Quebec in 2020….
Under the radar: more attacks on healthcare entities
The attacks on the medical sector continue, although not all get a lot of media coverage. This week, DataBreaches.net noted the Alamance Skin Center ransomware breach which had left the medical entity with unrecoverable data on 100,000 patients. I get a knot in my stomach just thinking about breaches like that one. Today, DataBreaches.net notes…
Ransomware attack forces web hosting provider Managed.com to take servers offline
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Managed.com, one of the biggest providers of managed web hosting solutions, has taken down all its servers in order to deal with a ransomware attack, ZDNet has learned today. The attack took place on Monday, November 16, and the ransomware impacted the company’s public-facing web hosting systems, resulting in some customer sites having their…