Greenville officials have determined the City’s network has become infected with a ransomware virus. Read more on WNCT
Category: Malware
Pick-Six: Intercepting a FIN6 Intrusion, an Actor Recently Tied to Ryuk and LockerGoga Ransomware
From a recent report by Brendan McKeague, Van Ta, Ben Fedore, Geoff Ackerman, Alex Pennino, Andrew Thompson, Douglas Bienstock of FireEye: Recently, FireEye Managed Defense detected and responded to a FIN6 intrusion at a customer within the engineering industry, which seemed out of character due to FIN6’s historical targeting of payment card data. The intent…
Still not fixed: Ransomware attack in Genesee County will hamper some county business again Monday
ABC12 reports that Genesee County has not fully restored functionality following a ransomware attack. The county is now saying business will not return to normal by Monday like they had hoped. The county has made progress since discovering the attack Tuesday. At least now e-mail services have been restored, but now the county says because…
UK: Law Firm Launches $6.5 Million Action Against Ticketmaster Over Data Breach
Richard Smirke reports: A British law firm has launched a £5 million ($6.5 million) legal action against Ticketmaster following last year’s security breach, which is believed to have affected up to 40,000 U.K. customers. […] The U.K. arm of Ticketmaster detected a major security breach on June 23, 2018 when it identified malicious software on…
AeroGarden maker says hackers stole months of credit card data
Zack Whittaker reports: Bad news for home gardeners: criminals might have your credit card data. AeroGrow, the maker of the at-home garden kit AeroGarden, said in a letter to customers that its website had credit card scraping malware for more than four months. The company said anyone who bought something through its website between October…
Health data breaches due to external actors continue to predominate recently.
Because I’m at a conference, it’s been hard to update a lot, but here are a few of the health data breaches I’ve spotted this week: Main Line Endoscopy Centers in Pennsylvania announced that it recently mailed notifications to patients whose personal information was in an employee’s email account a t the time that the…