Catalin Cimpanu reports: An unidentified hacker group appears to have accidentally exposed two fully-working zero-days when they’ve uploaded a weaponized PDF file to a public malware scanning engine. The zero-days where spotted by security researchers from Slovak antivirus vendor ESET, who reported the issues to Adobe and Microsoft, which in turn, had them patched within…
Category: Malware
Ransomware attack on Family Planning NSW
Naven Goud reports: Family Planning NSW(FPNSW), an organization looking into the reproductive and Sexual health of Australian populace is said to have become a victim of a ransomware on Anzac Day. Officials at the New South Wales based healthcare agency has confirmed that their database was hit by ransomware and information related to the customer’s…
Police Dept Loses 10 Months of Work to Ransomware. Gets Infected a Second Time!
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ransomware has infected the servers of the Riverside Fire and Police department for the second time in a month. The first ransomware infection took place on April 23, last month and encrypted ten months worth of work data related to active investigations. Officials said they didn’t pay the ransom and were able…
Notice of Unauthorized Access to Chili’s® Grill & Bar Guest Data
On May 11th, 2018, we learned that payment card information of some of our Guests who visited certain Chili’s® Grill & Bar corporate-owned restaurants have been compromised in a data incident. Currently, we believe the data incident was limited to between March – April 2018; however, we continue to assess the scope of the incident. Upon…
Ca: Wasaga Pays Ransom for Town Data
Mariane McLeod reports: Wasaga Beach has paid part of the ransom to hackers who took over the town’s computer system earlier this month. The computer ransomware attack started Sunday, April 29th. Staff discovered they couldn’t access town data when the arrived on Monday. Read more on Bayshore Broadcasting.
Superintendent sheds more light on system breach
The Leominster schools superintendent revealed more details about the recent ransomware attack that resulted in them paying a $10,000 ransom to get a decryption key from the attackers. Peter Jasinski reports: …. According to Deacon, the attack, which took place on the night of April 14, had affected 25 computer systems, 13 servers, and 11…