It appears that Pain Care Specialists in Oregon became the victim of an attack by AlphV. The threat actors added the medical entity to their leak site earlier today with some files with personal information on employees and patients. AlphV’s listing noted that the breach occurred on September 13, and, “As a result of our…
Category: Malware
Ohio Community College Data Theft Breach Affects Nearly 300K
Marianne Kobalsuk McGee reports: An Ohio community college is notifying 290,000 people of a data theft breach this spring that may have compromised their personal, financial and health information. In a breach notification Wednesday, Lakeland Community College did not provide any details on the attack, which occurred between March 7 and March 31, but the…
Cyberattack on Kansas town affects email, phone, payment systems
Jonathan Greig reports: A cyberattack on a small city in Kansas has disrupted the government’s email, phone and online payment systems. Pittsburg — home to about 20,000 people along the state’s border with Missouri and Oklahoma — said it discovered the incident over the weekend. The attack caused an IT outage that limited government systems…
Israeli mental health center in Jerusalem hit with cyberattack
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center in Israel’s capital of Jerusalem was hit with a suspected cyberattack, the Health Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry’s cyber security department, as well as Israel’s Cyber Authority, are looking into the incident. The Times of Israel also reports a cyberattack, but says the suspected cyberattack…
Visiting Physician’s Network in Texas silent about ransomware attack and incident response
One of the newer ransomware groups to open a leak site is “ThreeAM.” Bleeping Computer recently reported that the ThreeAM malware is written in Rust, and on at least one occasion, researchers discovered that when LockBit failed, ThreeAM (aka 3AM) was successfully deployed. Symantec has more details on the malware and the group’s methods. ThreeAM…
Cyberattack on a Breton municipality: private data released
The following is a Google translation of a post originally published in French by Europe1 with AVP: The town of Betton (Ille-et-Vilaine), close to Rennes, was the victim of a cyberattack by hackers who disseminated personal data due to the municipality’s refusal to pay a “ransom”, according to corroborating sources. The “ransomware” attack was committed…