Decatur Independent School District in Texas was added to Inc Ransomware’s leak site on Wednesday. There is no summary or description of what the threat actors claim to have done or acquired. There is no countdown clock or timer, and there is no indication of how much money is being demanded. There is a proofpack….
Category: Malware
NoEscape gang adds two more medical entities to their leak site
The NoEscape ransomware gang claims to have attacked two more medical entities. The first one is Southeastern Orthopaedic Specialists, P.A. in North Carolina. According to the threat actors, the network was locked on October 25, and 3 GB of files were exfiltrated. From the expanded listing (not shown here), it also appears that Southeastern…
LockBit ransomware group assemble strike team to breach banks, law firms and governments.
Kevin Beaumont writes: Recently, I’ve been tracking LockBit ransomware group as they’ve been breaching large enterprises: I thought it would be good to break down what is happening and how they’re doing it, since LockBit are breaching some of the world’s largest organisations — many of whom have incredibly large security budgets. Read more at…
Property management firm Homeland, Inc. allegedly hacked, hackers claim to have hundreds of thousands of SSN of tenants
Hunters International has added a property management firm in Kentucky to their leak site. They provide a description of what they claim to have acquired from Homeland, Inc.: Over 200Gb of data – tenants info (ssn, income, family members, phone numbers, etc) – service management info (move-in/move-out files, agreements, expenses, etc) – financial data (payments,…
Was a recent OCR settlement fair? Maybe, but maybe not.
Sometimes you think you did a good job — and sometimes you actually did do a good job compared to everyone else — but someone comes along and says what you did wasn’t satisfactory at all. And when that “someone” is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (HHS OCR),…
Michael Garron Hospital confirms some employee and clinician data stolen in cyberattack; Akira claims it stole 882,000 files
As the Toronto Star and CBC first reported last month, Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto has been investigating a cyberattack it discovered on October 23. In its update on October 26, the hospital reported that it was actively investigating what they labeled a “data security incident.” “At this time, there are no known impacts to…