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…
Category: Malware
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…
Developing: Multiple NHS trusts across England disrupted by ransomware attack
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…