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GA: Ransomware attack cripples Oglethorpe County school system

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Dissent

Lee Shearer reported this on Friday, but I haven’t found any updates and there is nothing currently on the school district’s web site: Oglethorpe County students stayed home Thursday and Friday — not because of COVID-19, the main reason for school closings these days, but because the rural school system was hit with a ransomware…

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Ransomware Surges: What Law Firms Need to Know

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Dissent

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…

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De: Ransomware attack at the GWG housing association

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Dissent

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…

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Mount Locker ransomware now targets your TurboTax tax returns

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Dissent

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…

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Ca: The former Coop fédérée is the target of cyber hackers

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Dissent

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….

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Under the radar: more attacks on healthcare entities

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Dissent

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…

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