East Kootenay News Online Weekly has a report on a malware incident involving a Canadian school district: School District No. 5 (SD5) Southeast Kootenay encountered a cyber incident on January 23 in which computers at the School Board Office and the Fernie Learning Centre were infected with the Emotet Virus. […] According to Secretary-Treasurer Alan…
Category: Malware
Ransomware gang hacks MSPs to deploy ransomware on customer systems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A ransomware gang has breached the infrastructure of at least three managed service providers (MSPs) and has used the remote management tools at their dispossal, namely the Webroot SecureAnywhere console, to deploy ransomware on the MSPs’ customers systems. The ransomware infections were first reported today in a Reddit section dedicated to MSPs…
Riviera Beach agrees to $600,000 ransom payment to regain data access
Tony Doris reports: The Riviera Beach City Council has authorized the city’s insurer to pay nearly $600,000 worth of ransom to regain access to data walled off through an attack on the city’s computer systems. In a meeting Monday night announced only days before, the board voted 5-0 to authorize the city insurer to pay…
MA: ResiDex Software discloses ransomware incident affecting clients’ patients’ protected health information
And yet another ransomware incident. They do not disclose the number of patients who were notified about this. Of note, sounds like their recovery was pretty smooth because they were prepared. BOSTON, June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Tenx Systems, LLC d/b/a ResiDex Software (“ResiDex”) specializes in providing software for assisted living homes, group homes, and organizations…
CO: Hit by ransomware, Estes Park Health decides to pay the ransom to get decryption keys
Zach Clemens reports that Estes Park Health suffered a ransomware attack on June 2. No data was exfiltrated, but it was locked up, and after consulting with their cyberinsurer and IT people, they decided that they had to pay the ransom. “At that point in time we are looking at the patients we have internally,…
OH: N.E.O. Urology pays attackers $75,000 after ransomware attack
Corey Vallas reports N.E.O. Urology in Boardman, Ohio paid attackers $75,000 after their computer systems were encrypted by ransomware. Police say the fax listed “Pay4Day.io” as the contact for further information. Read more on WFMJ. There is no notice on the medical practice’s web site as of the time of this posting, but it’s interesting…