On November 2, Altus Baytown Hospital System posted this notice of breach: We are posting this statement on our website as a precautionary measure and as part of our commitment to patient privacy. Altus Baytown Hospital and its affiliates and related entities (collectively, “ABH”) take our patients’ privacy seriously, and it is important to…
Category: Malware
Sugar City recall petition delayed by county malware attack
Lisa Dayley Smith reports: The Old Farm Estates controversy took another turn after the petition organizer to recall the mayor and a councilman complained the city was slow in forwarding the petition to county workers. City officials countered that a malware attack at the county blocked or slowed down email concerning the recall. Read more…
IoT botnet infects 100,000 routers to send Hotmail, Outlook, and Yahoo spam
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A new botnet made up of roughly 100,000 home routers has silently grown over the past two months. According to current evidence, the botnet’s operators appear to use the infected routers to connect to webmail services and are most likely sending out massive email spam campaigns. First spotted this September by the…
Supply-chain attack on cryptocurrency exchange gate.io
ESET malware researcher Matthieu Faou writes: On November 3, attackers successfully breached StatCounter, a leading web analytics platform. This service is used by many webmasters to gather statistics on their visitors – a service very similar to Google Analytics. To do so, webmasters usually add an external JavaScript tag incorporating a piece of code from…
Records lacking for ransomware attack on sheriff’s office
Molly Smith reports: Records of a ransomware attack on the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office are nonexistent, leaving little details available with the exception of an investigator’s testimony during a recent trial. HCSO investigator Marco Antonio Mandujano lost data obtained from an early 2017 dump of a sexual assault victim’s cellphone because the computer on which…
GandCrab ransomware crew loses $1Mil after Bitdefender releases free decrypter
Score one for the good guys. Catalin Cimpanu reports: Bitdefender believes the criminal group behind the GandCrab ransomware has lost an estimated $1 million in ransom payments after the company released a free decryption utility for GandCrab victims last week. The Romanian antivirus maker says that at least 1,700 GandCrab victims were able to successfully…