Diane Lee reports that Horry County Schools, the third largest school district in South Carolina, was hit with ransomware in February, and paid up: A photo was sent to Horry County Schools in February. It said if you don’t pay 22 bitcoin within “7 days” “it’s impossible to recover your files.” Horry paid the $10,000…
Category: Malware
Ca: Appalaches school board & cancer support group hit with Zepto ransomware
CBC reported this earlier this week: The Sûreté du Québec’s major crimes unit is investigating two cases of ransomware attacks. The Appalaches school board in Thetford-Mines and La Rose des Vents, a support group for cancer patients in Sherbrooke, reported the cyberattacks to authorities after they could no longer access their online documents. Both organizations reported that thousands of their files have…
Incident response shouldn’t include threatening the media, Saturday edition
As I commented to someone recently, a security incident involving Appalachian Regional Hospital facilities in Beckley and Summers County struck me as a really serious one because it was impacting patient care. While ARH responded promptly and initiated its emergency operations plan after detecting that its system was infected, it seemed clear that shifting to an…
Montreal police search for suspects tied to Concordia U. data theft
CBC reports: Montreal police are asking for the public’s help in finding two suspects in connection with a security breach and data theft at Concordia University. University officials filed a police report in March after library and technical staff found hardware devices called keyloggers on some of its workstations. Read more on CBC.
UK businesses bullish about ransomware, but majority pay up when attacked
An interesting press release from Trend Micro suggests that more UK entities are paying ransom than we might hear about in the media. The survey was conducted in August: London, September 7th, 2016 – The majority (74%) of UK organisations who haven’t experienced a ransomware attack remain bullish about the threat, claiming they would never…
Noodles & Company sued by financial institutions over breach
The Denver Channel reports that Noodles & Company has been sued by financial institutions who allege that they suffered injury as a result of a databreach first reported in May – a breach they claim could have been avoided had Noodles & Company learned from all the hacks of other major retailers and deployed adequate security….