Sam Parris reports: Calallen Independent School District officials have confirmed that their networks were recently affected by a so-called ransomware cyberattack. Information Technology (IT) staff at the district first noticed the issue Sunday morning, reporting problems with the district’s email system. They then discovered that malware (malicious software similar to a virus, trojan or worm),…
Category: Malware
Bad news: NotPetya may be something far worse than ransomware
Jack Morse reports: Is ransomware still ransomware if its goal is purely to destroy? This is less if-a-tree-falls hypothetical and more sobering reality for the untold number of people across the globe whose computer systems have been infected with the NotPetya ransomware. That’s because the latest digital scourge to cripple computer networks in 65 countries…
Major cyber attack disrupts businesses around world
Eric Auchard, Jack Stubbs and Alessandra Prentice report on the newest worldwide threat. Expect there to be a lot more coverage on this as more information becomes available: A cyber attack wreaked havoc around the globe on Wednesday, crippling thousands of computers, disrupting operations at ports from Mumbai to Los Angeles and halting production at…
Airway Oxygen notifies 500,000 patients after ransomware attack
Earlier this month, Purity Cylinder/Airway Oxygen in Michigan reported a breach to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. According to their notification, on April 18, they discovered that ransomware had been installed on their network. There was no evidence, they say, that any protected health information was actually accessed or acquired, but they notified those who…
Cleveland Medical Associates tells patients of ransomware incident
Cleveland Medical Associates, PLLC, a four-physician primary care clinic in Cleveland, Tennessee, is providing notice to its patients that on April 21, 2017, it discovered that, the evening before, its computer network had been impacted by ransomware, a type of computer virus that locks up, or encrypts, information and demands that a payment be made…
Waverly Health Center hit by ransomware; patient records not compromised
Kayla Thraikill reports: On June 14, 2017 an unknown ransomware variant infected the Waverly Health Center, a hospital located in Waverly, Iowa. Fortunately, the facility encrypts all of their patient data. Therefore, the hackers were unable to obtain any of the patient’s personal information. Although, the hackers were able to infect the systems, causing the…