Steven Adair writes: In the wake of the 2016 United States Presidential Election, not even six hours after Donald Trump became the nation’s President-Elect, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group launched a series of coordinated and well-planned spear phishing campaigns. Volexity observed five different attack waves with a heavy focus on U.S.-based think tanks and…
Category: Malware
IN: Madison County pays ransom on advice of insurer
Well, this is interesting: a media report says that a county’s insurer advised them to pay a ransomware demand. Ken de la Bastide reports: On the advice of their insurance company Madison County officials are moving forward to pay the ransom demands by a unknown group that attacked the county’s computer system. Madison County was…
Ringleader Of Tampa Credit Card Fraud And Identity Theft Ring Sentenced To More Than 16 Years In Prison
Tampa, FL – U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Michel Lermos-Hernandez (40, Tampa) to 16 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered him to pay $714,383.51 in restitution to his victims. Lermos-Hernandez pleaded guilty on March 2, 2016….
OR: Sentinel Hotel Notifies Guests of Payment Card Incident
Sentinel Hotel announced today that it has taken action to investigate and address an incident affecting payment card data at the hotel’s front desk. After receiving reports of unauthorized charges occurring on the payment cards of some of its guests after they had used their card at the Sentinel Hotel, Sentinel immediately launched an investigation…
Mapco Data Breach Class-Action: How To Get Your Settlement
There’s a follow-up to a 2013 payment card breach involving MAPCO that was followed by litigation. Now the litigation has resulted in a settlement offer, it seems. J.R. Lind reports: To qualify, you must reside in the United States and your personal or financial data was stolen from Mapco’s data systems and if you were damaged…
NHS Trust cancels EVERY operation at three hospitals after its electronic system was hit by a computer virus attack
Abe Hawken reports on what sounds like it might be a ransomware situation (update: nope, it is not): All operations have been cancelled at three hospitals run by the same NHS Trust after a virus attack compromised their computer system. The system, which is run by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust, had to be shut…