WTV in Belgium reports: The municipal services in Kuurne have been hit by a cyber attack. There is a computer virus in the municipal computer network and the service is disrupted. “The municipality discovered a virus in its network on Tuesday, November 17. It concerns a ‘wannamine’, an attack in which the intention is not to…
Category: Malware
GA: Ransomware attack cripples Oglethorpe County school system
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…
Ransomware Surges: What Law Firms Need to Know
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…
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….