ABC23 reports: Fast Health in Tehachapi is reporting a security breach that could affect over 700 of their patients. The business says a third-party altered a code on their server, stealing the credit card information of close to 700 customers who paid bills online from January 14, 2016 to December 20, 2016. Medical information was…
Category: Malware
How ECMC got hacked by cyber extortionists
Henry L. Davis provides some greater depth to the coverage of the ransomware attack on Erie County Medical Center: It was 2 a.m. Palm Sunday. Computer screens across Erie County Medical Center flashed white with bright red words: “What happened to your files?” The ransom demands began with hot pink text. “Step1: You must send us…
Hackers exploit stolen U.S. spy agency tool to launch global cyberattack
Costas Pitas and Carlos Ruano report: A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails…
Keylogging Spyware Found On Dozens Of HP Laptop Models
Kate Cox reports: Owners and users of nearly 30 different Hewlett-Packard laptop models, beware: It turns out an unknown number of computers shipped with a keylogger embedded in them, tracing and recording your every keystroke. A security research firm based in Switzerland announced its discovery of the keylogger this week. The problem software is part…
Walnut Place notifies patients of ransomware attack
From their press release: On March 13, 2017, LCS-WP LLC d/b/a Walnut Place (“Walnut Place”) leadership discovered that some of its systems had been infected with ransomware (a type of computer malware that encrypts files). Walnut Place’s investigation has revealed that the ransomware began affecting its systems on or around January 25, 2017 and was…
Brooks Brothers payment card system compromised for almost one year; customers being alerted
Oh my. It seems that upscale Brooks Brothers had a payment card compromise that went on for almost one year at hundreds of their brick-and-mortar retail and outlet locations. Brooks Brothers recently became aware of a security incident that could affect the payment card information of some customers who made purchases at certain Brooks Brothers…