Digital Health is reporting: Multiple hospitals across England have been hit by a large-scale cyber attack on Friday afternoon, with trusts switching off systems. NHS Digital confirmed to Digital Health News that it is aware of a “cyber security incident”. Sources told Digital Health News that there was a major N3 cyber security issue on…
Category: Malware
IL: Pekin high school hit by ransomware and $37,000 demand
Nick Vlahos reports: A cyberattack last weekend has been forcing students, teachers and administrators at Pekin Community High School to forgo its computer systems. That hasn’t been easy. “You really quickly realize how much you rely on technology when you don’t have access to it for a couple of days,” Danielle Owens, the District 303…
US ISP Goes Down as Two Malware Families Go to War Over Its Modems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Two malware families battling for turf are most likely the cause of an outage suffered by Californian ISP Sierra Tel at the beginning of the month. This outage took place on April 10, 2017, when Sierra Tel customers started complaining about losing Internet and telephone connectivity. While initially there were unconfirmed rumors…
Hackers reportedly disable Newark computers and demand $30K ‘ransom’
Paul Milo reported this yesterday: Hackers have disabled some City of Newark computers and are now demanding about $30,000 worth of the online currency Bitcoin to render them operable once again, TAPInto reported Monday. The computers were infected over the weekend with an encryption that affects nearly all files that operate on a desktop, according to…
The godfather of ransomware returns: Locky is back and sneakier than ever
Danny Palmer reports: The ransomware that drove last year’s boom in file-encrypting malware is back, and this time it’s even harder to detect. Ransomware cost its victims some $1bn during 2016, with Locky one of the most widespread variants, infecting organisations across the globe. However, the start of 2017 saw a sudden decline in the…
Russian Accused of Running Spam Ring is Indicted in US
Maria Dinzeo reports: A federal grand jury in Connecticut indicted Russian national Peter Yuryevich Levashov on eight counts of fraud, conspiracy and identity theft Friday, over his role in the Kelihos botnet that prosecutors say Levashov helped infect with malicious software. Levashov, 36, was arrested by Spanish authorities in Barcelona on April 7. Prosecutors believe…