Jeremy Kohler reports: St. Louis County government’s information technology staff took down the county website on Sept. 1 after discovering attacks on its server designed to take control of the site, the IT director said Monday. They were able to respond to the threat before the hackers could succeed, acting IT director Charles Henderson said…
Category: Malware
Gelderland Security Region Hit in Ransomware Attack
Janene Pieters reports: Veiligheidsregio Noord- en Oost-Gelderland (VNOG) was infected by ransomware over the weekend. The attack left the internal systems damaged. Some functionality is limited or not working at all. But the notification systems like P2000 and C2000, with which the security services communicate, are unaffected. Read more on NLtimes.nl. h/t, @Chum1ng0
Central Bank of Seychelles reports ransomware attack on Development Bank of Seychelles
From a Central Bank of Seychelles(CBS) press release of September 11, as first reported by Bleeping Computer: The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) has been informed of a ransomware attack on the network of the Development Bank of Seychelles (DBS). The incident was communicated to CBS on Wednesday 9 September 2020. Since then, CBS has…
Maze attacking some of the country’s largest school districts
On August 27, Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada experienced a data security incident that they disclosed the next day. And on September 8, they issued an update. The update noted that the attack was a ransomware attack. Although the district stated it had seen no evidence of misuse, they were notifying everyone to…
SC: In September, Roper St. Francis was busy sending notifications on two separate breaches
On September 3, ABC reported that Roper St. Francis was notifying 6,000 patients about a breach involving their protected health information. This week, you may have read that Roper St. Francis is notifying almost 93,000 patients. There are two unrelated incidents. The first involved the compromise of an employee’s email account in June that the…
US staffing firm Artech discloses ransomware attack, data breach
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Artech Information Systems, one of the largest US IT staffing companies, has disclosed a data breach caused by a ransomware attack that affected some of its systems during early January 2020. Artech is a privately-held firm with an estimated $810 million annual revenue run rate for 2019 and more than 10,500 employees and consultants…