The following is an automatic machine translation of an article by Le Figaro with AFP: A Russian, suspected of having recovered in cryptocurrencies the money taken from French victims of the powerful Hive ransomware , dismantled in January, was arrested last week, AFP learned on Tuesday December 12 from the judicial police. The suspect, ”…
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Ransomware Group Publishes Stolen Medical Data
Paul Sisson reports: Though Tri-City Medical Center got its operations back up and running 17 days ago, ransomware extortion efforts appear to be ongoing against the Oceanside hospital. Earlier this week, a cybersecurity expert noted in a message on X, formerly called Twitter, that “INC RANSOM”, a well known group of cyber extortionists, announced its possession of records stolen…
Did Akumin experience two cyber attacks in October and November? It has only acknowledged one. (1)
On October 25, DataBreaches reported that Akumin’s ability to provide diagnostic services at some locations remained disrupted two weeks after they detected suspicious activity on their network. What they subsequently identified as a ransomware attack occurred during a time when Akumin was also dealing with bankruptcy. While there was some resolution of financial issues, things…
Hinsdale schools struck by ransomware attack (1)
The Brattleboro Reformer reports: The Hinsdale school district is attempting to recover from a ransomware attack that occurred on Thursday morning. “School district officials are working with Primex, its cyber insurance provider, and a professional cybersecurity response team to assess the situation,” states information release by SAU 29 Superintendent David Ryan. Read more. Update December…
What it means — CitrixBleed ransomware group woes grow as over 60 credit unions, hospitals, financial services and more breached in US.
Kevin Beaumont writes: How CitrixBleed vulnerablity in Netscale has become the cybersecurity challenge of 2023. Credit union technology firm Trellance owns Ongoing Operations LLC, and provides a platform called Fedcomp — used by double digit number of other credit unions across the United States. This Fedcomp platform was not patched for CitrixBleed, as no Netscaler…
On September 2nd, the U.S. branch of Great Star Industrial Co. disbursed a ransom of 1 million dollars to a ransomware group
Over at SuspectFile, Marco A. De Felice writes: We are in the early days of last September when the American division of the Chinese multinational Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd (Great Star), in order to avoid the publication of administrative and company secrets documents, decided to negotiate with the Akira ransomware group and pay…