AFP reports: Iran has arrested the deputy chief editor of Fars news agency, state media said, more than a week after the agency was reportedly hit by a cyberattack. “The deputy head of Fars news agency, Abbas Darvish Tavanger, has been arrested for falsifying news,” state broadcaster IRIB said late Monday. Read more at Barron’s….
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Fr: Versailles hospital targeted by cyberattack
California 18 reports: The Versailles hospital center, located in Chesnay-Rocquencourt (Yvelines), has been targeted since Saturday evening by a cyberattack which is disrupting its activity, the establishment’s management said on Sunday. confirming information from franceinfo. The reception of patients is therefore ” limit “explained the hospital, adding that the computer system had been cut and a crisis…
In: Safdarjung Hospital reports cyberattack but not ransomware
ANI reports: Safdarjung Hospital officials on Saturday said the hospital was under a cyber-attack, but the damage was not as severe as it had been for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital. A hospital spokesperson indicated that this was not a ransomware attack. Read more at Times of India.
Nl: Forum voor Democratie data leak leaves 93,000 members and former members exposed
Dutch News reports: An IT failure in the app launched last weekend by far right party Forum voor Democratie has placed the names, addresses and bank account numbers of all 93,000 current and past party members in the public domain, broadcaster RTL has reported, following a tip-off. Read more at DutchNews.nl. As Professor Frederik Zuiderveen…
In: Hackers Selling Personal Data Of 150,000 Patients From a Tamil Nadu Hospital in Supply-Chain Attack
Bharat Sharma reports: After a cyberattack on AIIMS knocked out its servers, a threat actor is selling medical records of patients of a Tamil Nadu-based multispecialty hospital. A report released by CloudSEK claims that patient data of Sree Saran Medical Centre is on sale by a threat actor. On November 22, 2022, CloudSEK discovered a post…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
UY: Ministry of Transport and Public Works victim of ransomware attack Uruguay’s Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP) was hit by a ransomware attack on October 17. On November 9, MTOP reported that it was back to normal after the ransomware attack, adding that it had recovered critical information and restored the affected services….