Iain Thomson reports: Carleton University in Ontario, Canada, has confirmed it has been hit by a ransomware infection that crippled some of the Windows machines on its main campus. Systems at the university started to go down on Tuesday, and its IT department reported that email, network drives and the central university student portal had…
Category: Malware
MT: Bigfork school computers breached
Hilary Matheson reports: Bigfork School District will not submit to ransom demands after the district’s computer network was compromised over the weekend by ransomware. Information technology staff have been working to recover computer files and remove the malicious software, which encrypted and locked files from being opened. It’s often the case that ransomware is not…
Report holds Hitachi responsible for debit card data theft
It looks like I missed a breach report in October involving Hitachi Payment Systems, who initially denied any breach of their system. But now Nupur Anand reports that an interim forensics report has found that there was, in fact, a compromise involving malware: …. The breach is said to have occurred because there was malware…
So, just how were those MailChimp accounts hacked?
Graham Cluley writes: As I described yesterday in an article on the We Live Security blog, some MailChimp customers had their accounts hijacked, with the end result that their newsletter subscribers received a malicious email. […]A security researcher, who chooses to remain anonymous, contacted me telling me that he had a database of over 2,000 MailChimp usernames…
Hospital-targeting Locky ransomware ups attack methods
Jessica Davis reports: In February, Locky was found in the wild, wreaking havoc on networks. And despite the drop in the frequency of ransomware attacks in recent months and increase of decryption tools for strains like Crysis, Locky is upping the ante on its attack method. The latest ransomware downloader uses the AESIR-file extension. It…
Madison Square Garden Company Alerts Customers of Payment Card Data Breach
A major breach was just discovered last month, it seems. Here’s MSG’s full notice from their web site, today: The Madison Square Garden Company Notifies Customers of Payment Card Incident November 22, 2016 California residents please click here The Madison Square Garden Company (“MSG”) understands the importance of protecting payment card data. After MSG was notified…