Ionut Ilascu reports: In a statement at midday today (local time), Spanish multinational security company Prosegur announced that it was the victim of a cybersecurity incident disrupting its telecommunication platform. The company restricted communications with its customers to avoid malware propagation. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Category: Malware
Sale of 4 Million Stolen Cards Tied to Breaches at 4 Restaurant Chains; Two Other Chains Also Notifying Customers
Brian Krebs reports: Two financial industry sources who track payment card fraud and asked to remain anonymous for this story said the four million cards were taken in breaches recently disclosed by restaurant chains Krystal, Moe’s, McAlister’s Deli and Schlotzsky’s. Krystal announced a card breach last month. The other three restaurants are all part of the same parent company and…
Pemex Communications Still Spotty After Crippling Cyberattack
Amy Stillman reports: Some of Petroleos Mexicanos’s communication systems are still affected two weeks after a cyberattack hit Mexico’s beleaguered state oil firm. For some employees, internet access is limited, some computer files aren’t accessible and they are having difficulty receiving external emails to corporate accounts, according to people in Pemex’s finance, legal and refining…
NYPD Pulls Fingerprint Database Offline Due to Ransomware Scare
Dark Reading reports: The New York Police Department (NYPD) pulled its LiveScan fingerprint tracking system offline after a ransomware virus spread to 23 machines connected to the database over the weekend. The incident began on October 5, when a contractor installing a digital display at a Queens police academy plugged in an infected NUC mini-PC,…
NE: Great Plains Health hit by ransomware
NBC reports: According to Great Plains Health officials, around 7 p.m. Monday, ransomware was detected in the Great Plains Health computer network. The hospital’s information systems team immediately identified the issue and worked through the night to minimize the impact to local health services. Read more on NBC.
Ca: Ransomware’s latest victim: a child welfare authority
The Canadian Press reports: An Indigenous child welfare authority in Manitoba has called in the RCMP after being hit by a cyberattack that’s corrupted its computer files and potentially compromised the privacy of its clients. Southern First Nations Network of Care spokesman Jim Compton said the organization’s IT department has been trying to restore service…