Mohamed Thaver reports: A day after a Navi Mumbai hospital and hotel became targets of a ransomware attack, cyber fraudsters encrypted data belonging to a Dadar-based chartered accountant and demanded money to remove the block on the data on Monday. While the incident took place on Monday, the complainant, realised that his data has been blocked…
Category: Malware
Dutch Court Sentences Bitcoin Ransomware Creators to Community Service
Anna Baydakova reports: The developers behind the CoinVault and BitCryptor ransomware were sentenced to 240 hours of community service in a Dutch court on Thursday. Melvin and Dennis van de B., aged 25 and 21, were convicted of accusing (sic) 1,259 computers in the Netherlands and other Western European countries with the ransomware and demanding…
MO: Blue Springs Family Care notifies 44,979 patients after ransomware attack
I read an article recently that cited a study by Cryptonite claiming that according to HHS’s breach tool, it appears that ransomware attacks are down in the healthcare sector this year. My mental response was just to shrug because I’ve already declared time of death on using HHS’s breach tool as any kind of serious…
OR: City of Medford notifies 1,842 after malware attack
Kimberly Kolliner reports: It’s estimated 1,842 Medford residents may have been impacted by a City of Medford data breach. The city’s online utility billing service that was infected with malware. The security breaches happened between February 18th through March 14th and March 29th through April 16th. June 5th is when forensic investigators determined the breach…
Samsam infected thousands of LabCorp systems via brute force RDP
Steve Ragan reports: LabCorp, one of the largest clinical labs in the U.S., said the Samsam ransomware attack that forced their systems offline was contained quickly and didn’t result in a data breach. However, in the brief time between detection and mitigation, the ransomware was able to encrypt thousands of systems and several hundred production…
Update: BP data breach affected 60,000 after malware attack on PageUp job portal
Julie Iles reports that estimates of the PageUp breach impact on BP applicants has increased significantly: BP says a hack of its online recruitment portal has compromised the data of more job applicants than initially suspected. BP has emailed about 60,000 people who applied for jobs in its retail stores since 2008 to notify them they could have…