In early May, a new group of threat actors known as Nokoyawa added Canopy Children’s Solutions in Mississippi to their leak site. On June 2, Mississippi Children’s Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children’s Home Services, Inc., d.b.a. Canopy Children’s Solutions (“Canopy”) a press release acknowledging that on April 4, they experienced an attack that…
Category: Malware
Rhysida ransomware group claims attack on Martinique
A ransomware group that first emerged in May has added the government of Martinique to its leak site. Although there is no current notice on Martinique’s Facebook page, on May 24, they posted a notice about the cyberattack: A machine translation of the notice reads: #Cyberattack Implementation of the continuity plan On May 16,…
Middlesex Co. Public Schools confirms ransomware attack
Jimmy LaRoue reports: The superintendent for Middlesex County Public Schools confirmed Thursday that the school division was the subject of a recent ransomware attack. “We can confirm that Middlesex County Public Schools recently suffered a ransomware attack,” said Superintendent Dr. Tracy Seitz in a statement to 10 On Your Side. “We took immediate action to…
Russia says US hacked thousands of Apple phones in spy plot
Guy Faulconbridge reports: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its employees’ devices were compromised in the operation. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said in a statement that…
BlackByte attacks City of Augusta, GA and demands a ransom of $2 million
Marco A. De Felice aka @amvinfe writes: In this article we will not only address the part relating to the attack carried out by BlackByte on the IT systems of the City of Augusta, the theft of tens of GB of data or the real amount of the ransom requested by the ransomware group. Above…
Barracuda zero-day abused since 2022 to drop new malware, steal data
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Network and email security firm Barracuda today revealed that a recently patched zero-day vulnerability had been exploited for at least seven months to backdoor customers’ Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances with custom malware and steal data. The company says an ongoing investigation found that the bug (tracked as CVE-2023-2868) was first exploited…