From their public notice of August 30, below, it appears that the attack was disovered on June 30. The incident was reported to HHS as impacting 40,800 patients. While the notification below meets all the regulatory requirements, I wish entities would routinely just disclose how malware was injected and what kind of malware it was….
Category: Malware
Canadian Town Pays Hackers Ransom in Bitcoin (BTC)
Kalina Tekelieva reports: The ransom that the Canadian town of Midland has paid to cyber criminals to have its servers unblocked was in the form of Bitcoin (BTC), media source Global News reported last week, quoting a local spokesperson. How much Midland has paid in cryptocurrency, however, was not specified. On September 1, the town in the…
If an extension goes rogue, everything you do in your browser is compromised
Graham Cluley writes: One popular service which has its own Chrome browser extension is Mega.nz – the cloud-based file-sharing service founded by the shadowy larger-than-life figure of Kim Dotcom (he severed all ties with Mega three years ago.) This week, as ZDNet reports, the official Chrome browser extension for Mega.nz was compromised with a malicious…
Ca: Midland servers hacked, attackers demanding ransom
Andrew Mendler reports: The Town of Midland’s computer systems were hacked over the long weekend. In the early morning hours of Sept. 1, the town became the victim of a cyber-attack in which the town’s network was illegally accessed and infected with ransomware. [..] In late April, Wasaga Beach had their computer systems hacked and…
Coweta County, Ga., Largely Restores Servers Following Ransomware Attack
Raisa Habersham of AJC reports: Coweta County, Ga., has restored most of its computer servers, nearly two weeks after hackers demanded $341,000 in bitcoins in the latest ransomware attack to impact metro Atlanta government. The county’s information technology servers were compromised about 6:30 a.m. Aug. 19, limiting access to tags, courts and other services, officials…
Ca: Hackers hit West Vancouver’s server
Brent Richter reports: West Vancouver is warning thousands of its residents after discovering hackers installed malicious software on the district server used to store personal information collected through its website. District staff first noticed something suspicious on July 31. A forensic search found malware installed on its server used for collecting information from online “webforms.”…