Bob Clark reports: Another virus has crippled city operations — this one of the digital kind. On Friday morning, city officials announced that the management information department detected and stopped a computer virus attack on the city’s computers before the opening of business. “All I can tell you is it was ransomware discovered early in…
Category: Malware
Czechs Warn Hackers Are Preparing Cyber Attacks on Hospitals
Lenka Ponikelska reports: A campaign of serious hacker attacks on Czech hospitals is highly probable in the coming days, the country’s National Cyber and Information Security Agency said. The warning follows an attack last month at the Faculty Hospital in the second-largest Czech city of Brno, where officials were forced to evacuate patients. The threat…
PA: Meadville Medical Center still not fully recovered from malware attack in March
On January 30, the Meadville Tribune reported that Meadville Medical Center was investigating what appeared to be an attack on the employee payroll system. No patient data was believed to have been impacted. On March 26, however, and only days after furloughing hundreds of employees due to the decreased volume of patients coming to the…
Nemty ransomware operation shuts down
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The operators of the Nemty ransomware have announced this week they were shutting down their service after ten months in operation, ZDNet has learned from a source in the infosec community. […] But in an update posted on a dedicated topic on the Exploit hacking forum, the Nemty operator announced yesterday they…
RagnarLocker ransomware hits EDP energy giant, asks for €10M
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Attackers using the Ragnar Locker ransomware have encrypted the systems of Portuguese multinational energy giant Energias de Portugal (EDP) and are now asking for a 1580 BTC ransom ($10.9M or €9.9M). EDP Group is one of the largest European operators in the energy sector (gas and electricity) and the world’s 4th largest producer of wind…
Ransomware attacks lock 2 Manitoba law firms out of computer systems
Sean Kavanagh reports: Work at two Manitoba law firms is at a virtual standstill after cyber attacks left staff without access to their computer systems, locking out digital files, emails and data backups. Read more on CBC.ca.