On March 15, Jessica Gavin reported: A cyber security breach, striking Methodist Hospital in Henderson. We’re learning the FBI is investigating this right now, but there’s some good news. [….] David Park, COO of Methodist, tells 14 NEWS the hackers have copied patients records and locked those copies. They’ve deleted the originals. “We’ve notified the FBI,…
Category: Malware
Ransomware Propagation Tied to TeamViewer Account
As if you needed another reason to distrust remote access viewers, David Bisson reports: Researchers have tied the propagation of a new type of ransomware to a TeamViewer user. TeamViewer is a cross-platform service that enables remote computer access for tech support calls, meetings, and other purposes. It has been installed on more than a billion devices,…
Malicious scripts spammed out to infect computers with ransomware
Graham Cluley writes: Although over 100,000 new malware variants may be discovered every day by security researchers, that doesn’t mean that the criminals behind the attacks need to be equally inventive in their methods to infect users. In fact, truth be told, the methods used to compromise users’ computers are often close to the same…
Cloquet schools suffer ‘ransomware’ attack
Jana Hollingsworth reports: The Cloquet school district was the victim of a malicious computer software attack last week that resulted in the equivalent of a lock on much of its information, and a $6,000 ransom demand to have it released. School was canceled Thursday so technology employees could work on the problem. The district, which…
Hackers spear phish dozens of Russian banks, posing as FinCert
TASS reports: Hackers attacked dozens of Russian banks by sending letters on behalf of FinCert on Tuesday, March 15, Kaspersky Lab said in a report on Wednesday. FinCert is a structure of the Central Bank, which warns financial institutions of cyber threats. “On March 15, dozens of Russian banks became targets of cyberattacks by means…
Ottawa Hospital hit with ransomware, information on four computers locked down
Vito Pilieci reports: The Ottawa Hospital has confirmed that four computers in its network of 9,800 were hit with ransomware last week which encrypted the information on those machines making it unaccessible to hospital administrators. “No patient information was affected. The malware locked down the files and the hospital responded by wiping the drives,” said…