Naseem S. Miller reports: A malicious software that recently affected several Florida Hospital websites may have compromised some patient information, the health system said on Wednesday afternoon. […] The compromised websites include FloridaBariatric.com, FHOrthoInstitute.com and FHExecutiveHealth.com. They were taken offline for repair. Read more on Orlando Sentinel. As of the time I’m posting this, I…
Category: Malware
MA: Leominster pays $10K in bitcoin ransom to undo cyberattack on schools
Paula J. Owen reports: The city paid $10,000 in bitcoin last week to cyber extortionists who infiltrated the school district’s computer systems over the April school break, according to city officials, affecting every school in the district. Mayor Dean J. Mazzarella called those who carried out the cyberattack “smart” and said they knew what they…
Center for Orthopaedic Specialists notifies 85,000 patients of ransomware attack
The Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS) in California has three locations in West Hills, Simi Valley and Westlake Village. COS has been notifying 85,000 current and former patients of a ransomware attack on their unnamed IT vendor in February. From their April 18 notice on their web site: The Center for Orthopaedic Specialists (COS) recently learned…
Atlanta spent at least $2.6 million on ransomware recovery
Zack Whittaker reports: Atlanta spent more than $2.6 million on recovery efforts stemming from a ransomware attack, which crippled a sizable part of the city’s online services. The city was hit by the notorious SamSam ransomware, which exploits a deserialization vulnerability in Java-based servers. The ransom was set at around $55,000 worth of bitcoin, a…
Prince Edward Island government website hit by ransomware attack
Ryan Ross reports: The P.E.I. government’s website appears to have been the victim of a ransomware attack. Visitors to some pages on the website this morning were met with a screen that said “Oops, your website have been encrypted!” The page warned that files on the website were encrypted and no longer accessible. Read more…
New Orangeworm attack group targets the healthcare sector in the U.S., Europe, and Asia – Symantec
There’s a new report out from Symantec that is somewhat worrying. Symantec has identified a previously unknown group called Orangeworm that has been observed installing a custom backdoor called Trojan.Kwampirs within large international corporations that operate within the healthcare sector in the United States, Europe, and Asia. First identified in January 2015, Orangeworm has also…