Andrew James reports on a ransomware attack on a South Carolina system that has yet to show up on HHS’s public breach tool: The impacts of the December 12 cyberattack on the Tidelands Health Hospital System are unclear, but what is clear is that patients feel they were victimized as a result of negligence. A…
Category: Malware
Magecart gang arrested in Indonesia
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Interpol and Indonesian police have arrested three men on suspicion of being part of a cybercrime group engaged in Magecart attacks. […] The suspects were only identified by their initials: ANF (27 years), K (35 years), and N (23 years), from he regions of Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Read more on ZDNet.
We’re dung for! Hackers hit firms with ransomware by exploiting Shitrix flaw
Graham Cluley writes: About two weeks ago alarm bells rang over a newly-discovered (and unpatched) flaw in Citrix servers. The vulnerability, technically dubbed CVE-2019-19781 but also known as “Shitrix”, was found to be present on Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway servers (formerly known as Netscaler ADC and Netscaler Gateway respectively) commonly used on corporate networks. Then we…
If states would only require — and then engage in — more transparency on breaches
Years ago, I had hoped more states would require breach notifications to central offices and that states would then share those reports with the public, much as New Hampshire had done. But things haven’t really become more transparent. Maryland and California remain positive examples of transparency, but New Hampshire’s site, while still available, has lost…
BitPyLock Ransomware Now Joins the Ranks of Those Threatening to Publish Stolen Data
As I anticipated, it is only getting worse. Now Lawrence Abrams reports: A new ransomware called BitPyLock has quickly gone from targeting individual workstations to trying to compromise networks and stealing files before encrypting devices. BitPyLock was first discovered by MalwareHunterTeam on January 9th, 2020 and has since seen a trickle of new victims daily. What is…
CT: Watertown computer system almost repaired after Nov. 1 ransomware attack
Hanna Snyder Gambini reports: The school district’s computer system is almost back up to full speed, Superintendent Rydell Harrison reported, with technicians installing new preventative software as they repair the effects of a ransomware attack. Teachers have their computers back, and “we’re very close to being back to normal,” Harrison said. “For what needs to happens…