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…
Category: Malware
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…
UK: Hackney’s mayor is ticked off — and understandably so
There’s an update to a ransomware attack previously noted on this site: Hackney Mayor Philip Glanville has voiced his anger at the “morally repugnant” cyber attack that has disrupted many council services over the past fortnight, which he says could not have come at a worse time for the borough. Council officers were praised last…
Sopra Steria falls victim to ransomware attack
FinExtra reports: European IT services group Sopra Steria is battling a suspected ransomware attack on its network. The firm, whose biggest customers in the financial sector include include Société Générale, BNP Paribas, La Banque Postale, HSBC, Crédit Agricole, RBS, Huyndai Capital and the Bank of China, issued a terse statement confirming a cyberattack on its…
Another REvil attack creates havoc for the Caribbean’s biggest conglomerate
Carla Bridglal reports: The Caribbean’s biggest conglomerate, Ansa McAl, is the victim of ransomware hackers holding some of the company’s IT systems hostage. Newsday understands that work at Tatil, the country’s biggest insurer, has been effectively stalled for about two weeks as the IT department works to find and expel the ransomware from the company’s…