Catalin Cimpanu reports: Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), a 40-year-old electronics company and a well-known US government contractor, has suffered a ransomware infection, ZDNet has learned. The infection hit the company last week. Among the systems that had data encrypted during the incident were the company’s web servers. Read more on ZDNet.
Category: Malware
Privacy, ransomware breach hits Lower Mainland social support group
Jeremy Hainsworth reports: …The Lookout Housing + Health Society, which works in 14 Lower Mainland municipalities, serving 2,500 people a day and housing 1,400 per night, was hit with a ransomware attack. Lookout provides a medical and dental clinic, food bank, needle distribution and community clean-up, HIV and Hep C supports, peer and employment programs and youth counselling programs….
Ransomware Bitcoin Wallet Frozen by UK Court to Recover Ransom
Lawrence Abrams reports: A victim’s insurance company convinced the UK courts to freeze a bitcoin wallet containing over $800K worth of a ransomware payment. […] After making the ransom payment, the insurance carrier did something very smart. Read more on BleepingComputer.
IL: District 155 system access ‘limited’ after ransomware attack, no data breach, officials say
Cassie Buchman reports: Access to Crystal Lake Community High School District 155’s information systems currently is limited after its computers were infected with ransomware sometime Friday. Read more on Northwest Herald (subscription required)
Regis University paid ransom after cyberattack last fall
Noel Brennan reports: Six months after Regis University computers were targeted in a cyberattack, the university hosted a conference to help government agencies, businesses and schools better defend and recover from similar attacks. […] “Regis did pay the ransom to get the systems back up as quickly as we could,” said Jennifer Forker, a spokesperson…
Maze Team updates its site, dumps more victims’ data
The Maze Team attackers continue to announce more of their ransomware victims that have not complied with their ransom demands, and they continue to dump data from those who do not pay them. When I checked their site again today, I noticed that they had announced that they have dumped all their files on the…