Late last night, word started circulating that Cognizant had been attacked by Maze Team. Today, the attack was reported by BleepingComputer and confirmed by Cognizant. In a statement on their website, the New Jersey-headquartered multinational corporation writes: Cognizant can confirm that a security incident involving our internal systems, and causing service disruptions for some of…
Category: Malware
Ca: Leading accounting firm MNP hit with cyberattack
Lawrence Abrams reports: A leading accounting firm in Canada forced a company-wide shutdown of their systems after getting hit with a cyberattack last weekend, BleepingComputer has learned. Canadian accounting firm MNP’s systems were impacted last weekend in what BleepingComputer was told was a ransomware attack. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Ransomware attack temporarily knocks out Olean city systems
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…
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…