A relatively new ransomware group calling themself “Gunra” has shown it has no compunction about attacking hospitals. They have reportedly locked — and have started leaking information from — the American Hospital in Dubai (AHD). In its first listing concerning this attack, Gunra claimed to have exfiltrated the entire Cerner Millenium database (now known as…
Category: Non-U.S.
Fraudsters, murderers, students: who the GRU assembled a team of hacker provocateurs from and why it failed
The Insider reports: In September 2024, the FBI published an indictment against a group of hackers working for GRU Unit 29155, the same military unit that became famous for poisoning Skripal in Salisbury. It has long been known that the GRU has hacker units, The Insider was the first to prove this back in 2017, and then it was…
Order of Psychologists of Lombardy fined 30,000 € for inadequate data security protection and detection following ransomware attack
The Privacy Guarantor has fined the Order of Psychologists of the Lombardy Region [Ordine degli psicologi della Lombardia] for 30 thousand euros for not having adopted adequate technical and organizational measures to guarantee data security. The Guarantor intervened following some complaints and the notification of data breach made by the Order, which declared to have…
Australian ransomware victims now must tell the government if they pay up
Alexander Martin reports: Australia became on Friday the first country in the world to require victims of ransomware attacks to declare to the government any extortion payments made on their behalf to cybercriminals. The law, initially proposed last year, only applies to organizations with an annual turnover greater than AUS $3 million ($1.93 million) alongside a smaller…
UK: Two NHS trusts hit by cyberattack that exploited Ivanti flaw
It’s been an all-too-common headline over the past decade. Now, two more National Health Service trusts in the U.K. have been impacted by cyberattacks, although there is no indication yet that patient data was accessed or patient services were affected. Emma Woollacott reports: Two NHS trusts have suffered cyber attacks which exposed staff data, prompting…
Russian-linked hackers target UK Defense Ministry while posing as journalists
Martin Fornusek reports: Russian-linked hackers targeted U.K. Defense Ministry staff in an espionage operation while posing as journalists, Sky News reported on May 29, citing the British government. The cyber attack was detected and thwarted, the government said. Speaking to reporters at a government facility where a team had disrupted the Russian-backed operation, U.K. Defense Minister John Healey revealed the…