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Category: Malware
Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty for Role in Infamous Linux Ebury Malware
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US Department of Justice announced yesterday that Maxim Senakh, 41, of Velikii Novgorod, Russia, pleaded guilty for his role in the creation of the Ebury malware and for maintaining its infamous botnet. US authorities indicted Senakh in January 2015, and the law enforcement detained the hacker in Finland in August of…
MT: Hackers hit Forsyth schools server, cause disruptions
Ed Kemmick reports: Forsyth Public Schools were hit with computer malware over the weekend, causing problems for teachers, students, parents and district administrators. The good news, Superintendent Dinny Bennett said, is that whoever did the damage “did not hack our system to take information, just to corrupt it.” The software program that ran the student…
Ca: Carleton staff, students urged to change passwords after potential security breach
Michelle McQuigge reports: Carleton University is urging caution among staff and students after discovering potential hacking tools on a handful of classroom computers. The university says it discovered USB key-logging devices on six classroom computers across three university buildings. Carleton says staff discovered the devices last week during what it called a routine classroom inspection,…
KY: Estill County Chiropractic notifies 5,335 patients of ransomware attack
March 17 – On January 17, 2017, Estill County Chiropractic (“ECC”) discovered that an unauthorized user installed malicious software on its computer system that encrypted patient files. ECC immediately shut down the system. Although ECC was already taking security precautions, ECC replaced the system and included additional security measures. ECC worked diligently to restore files…
Urology Austin notifies patients of ransomware attack
A ransomware attack was reported by Urology Austin as affecting 279,663 patients. From their notification letter: On January 22, 2017, Urology Austin was the victim of a ransomware attack that encrypted the data stored on our servers. Within minutes, we were alerted to the attack, our computer network was shut down, and we began an investigation….