Lawrence Abrams reports: The STOP ransomware has seen very heavy distribution over the last month using adware installers disguised as cracks. This campaign continues with a new variant released over the past few days that appends the .rumba extension to the names of encrypted files. Using adware bundles and software cracks as a new distribution method, STOP…
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Graeter’s: Website breach could compromise 12,000 customers’ credit card data
WLWT reports: Cincinnati-based Graeter’s ice cream has issued notices to thousands of customers: Your credit card information may be compromised. The ice cream chain sent out 12,000 notices to customers who made purchases on Graeter’s website last year, saying that an “unauthorized code” was added to the website’s checkout page. As a result, thousands of…
South Africans’ airtime and data stolen through malicious smartphone app
Jamie McKane reports: Mobile technology company Upstream announced earlier this month that it had detected a suspicious weather forecast application which was pre-installed on Alcatel smartphones. The company’s security platform, Secure-D, detected suspicious activity initiated by this application across multiple countries – most notably in Brazil and Malaysia, although South Africa was also affected. The…
Virus affecting IT system at Health Sciences North impacting health care across the region
Update: The hospital later issued a statement indicating that some elective surgeries and appointments were being rescheduled. As reported on Sudbury.com: Certain elective procedures and surgeries in the next 24-48 hours may be rescheduled. Patients are in the process of being rescheduled for treatement later this week and into the weekend. Those patients impacted will be…
TX: Del Rio City Hall Forced to Use Paper After Ransomware Attack
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The City Hall of Del Rio, Texas was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, which led to multiple computers on the network being turned off and disconnected from the Internet to contain and analyze the malware. Victoria Vargas Public Relations Manager for Del Rio’s City Hall told BleepingComputer that around 30 to 45 computers were turned…
Fake Movie File Infects PC to Steal Cryptocurrency, Poison Google Results
Ionut Ilascu reports: A malicious Windows shortcut file posing as a movie via The Pirate Bay torrent tracker can trigger a chain of mischievous activities on your computer, like injecting content from the attacker into high-profile web sites such as Wikipedia, Google and Yandex Search or by stealing cryptocurrency. Malware on TPB is not a…