Valley Health Systems (VHS) has joined the unfortunate ranks of health systems that have fallen prey to a ransomware attack. VHS provides primary and preventative care to approximately 75,000 patients each year in southern West Virginia, southeastern Ohio and eastern Kentucky, operating more than 40 healthcare facilities. Their 2019 annual report noted that their sliding…
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AR: Gosnell schools hit with ransomware attack
Aaron Castleberry reports: The Gosnell School District is recovering from a ransomware attack on Sunday. Superintendent Bornad Mace said ransomware software infiltrated the school’s system Sunday morning. Mace said the district’s tech team, the Arkansas Division of Information Services, and the P12 Cyber Threat Response Team worked to clear and recover data on Tuesday. Read…
Ca: North Okanagan pediatric clinic hacked
Jennifer Smith reports: Patients of a North Okanagan facility are being alerted of a privacy breach. The North Okanagan Pediatric Clinic was subject to a remote hacking attempt in late May 2020. “While patient medical charts and records, which are maintained in paper form only, were unaffected, historical patient profile information could theoretically have been…
Ventura Orthopedics hit by ransomware weeks ago; some patient data dumped
Updated August 28: DataBreaches.net was contacted today by Chris Roberts of HillBilly Hit Squad on behalf of Ventura Orthopedics. They had gotten this site’s inquiries and asked him to help explain the incident and their current status. Chris is still in the process of doing forensics, and rather than provide information piecemeal, I’m going to hold…
New SunCrypt Ransomware sheds light on Maze’s ransomware cartel
Lawrence Abrams reports: A new ransomware named SunCrypt has joined the ‘Maze cartel,’ and with their membership, we get insight into how these groups are working together. In June, we broke the story that the Maze threat actors created a cartel of ransomware operations to share information and techniques to help each other extort their victims. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Unsophisticated Iranian hackers armed with ransomware are targeting companies worldwide
Brooke Crothers reports: Unsophisticated Iranian hackers are attacking company networks with ransomware, a cybersecurity firm said. The attackers have been using Dharma ransomware “and a mix of publicly available tools” to target companies in Russia, Japan, China and India, cybersecurity firm Group-IB said earlier this week. Read more on Fox News.