Charlie Osborne reports: The citizens of Mexico are being served with a rather unpalatable form of tequila — a dark version — and the name given to a threat group which has been covertly stealing valuable data from its victims for years. On Tuesday, researchers from Kaspersky Lab revealed the existence of Dark Tequila, a…
Category: Malware
How K–12 School Districts Can Best Prepare for Ransomware Recovery
Karen Scarfone reports: No matter how many layers of security school districts put in place to stop ransomware, it’s inevitable that, at some point, an endpoint will be infected. Since January 2016, there have been 355 cybersecurity-related incidents against K–12 schools, including ransomware attacks, according to the K–12 Cybersecurity Resource Center. In 2016, 60 percent…
ME: Possible computer data breach at EMCC could affect thousands of students, staff
WAGM reports: Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor is dealing with a possible data security breach that could impact thousands of students and staff up to 20 years ago. School officials are notifying 42,000 current and former students, as well as employees, that certain computers on campus were recently infected with malware and may have…
“Stevenkings” charged with creating “Medusa IRC Botnet DDoS” malware used against Bay Area company’s website
SAN JOSE – A federal grand jury in San Jose indicted Travis Cole Malone, Jr., on July 12, 2018, for conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse and for causing the transmission of code to damage protected computers, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John…
Ransomware Strikes Computer Servers of Golfers’ Association
David Bisson reports: Digital attackers targeted the computer servers of a golfers’ association with ransomware and encrypted files stored on those assets. Staff at the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) discovered the attack on 7 August. When they attempted to access certain work files that morning, those documents generated a ransom note informing them…
After Singapore medical data hack, Hong Kong’s Department of Health becomes latest cyberattack victim
Clifford Lo reports that the HK Department of Health might have caught a break on a recent ransomware attack: Hong Kong’s Department of Health has become the latest victim of a cyberattack after three of its computers were hit by ransomware which left data inaccessible, prompting police to open a criminal investigation. The targeted computers…