Press Release: The wait for the victims of GandCrab is over: a new decryption tool has been released today for free on the No More Ransom depository for the latest strand of GandCrab, one of the world’s most prolific ransomware to date. This tool was developed by the Romanian Police in close collaboration with the…
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MN: Data breach hits Dunn Brothers, Chino Latino, several metro businesses
KARE reports: Customers at Dunn Brothers, Chino Latino, Sebastian Joe’s and several other metro businesses may have had their credit cards compromised last month. North Country Business Products, Inc., announced the security breach on Monday. They said a “recent data security incident may have resulted in unauthorized access” to debit and credit card information. Read…
MalwareTech’s Judge Seems More Sympathetic to Hutchins about the Intent of Prosecution than the Law
emptywheel writes: JP Stadtmueller, the judge who will preside over MalwareTech (Marcus Hutchins’) case, last week denied his pretrial motions to get his post-arrest interview and all the charges of his indictment thrown out. So right, that’s not great news for Marcus, or even good news. But to get a better understanding of how the case is…
NE: CHI Health officials say virus introduced to health system’s network by third-party vendor’s infected device
So let’s be honest: how often do you monitor your third-party vendors or business associates to ensure that the devices they may connect to your network are free from malware? Julie Anderson reports: CHI Health has caught a virus, but it’s not the kind the health system is used to battling. Dr. Cliff Robertson, CHI…
IL: School District computer system; most data recovered, superintendent says
Kennedy Nolen reports: Foreign hackers targeted the Mount Zion schools computer system in an attack that resulted in 19 days’ worth of grades being wiped out across the district. Data was not removed from the system, but the hackers encrypted several servers, making them unusable, Superintendent Travis Roundcount said in an emailed response to questions from the…
GandCrab ransomware gang infects customers of remote IT support firms
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have used a two-year-old vulnerability in a software package used by remote IT support firms to gain a foothold on vulnerable networks and deploy the GandCrab ransomware on those companies’ customer workstations. At least one company has been hit already, according to a report on Reddit, confirmed by cyber-security firm Huntress…