BR24 reports that a municipality in Bavaria has been hit by a trojan with a ransom demand (translation): When Ernst Walter turns on his computer, he can hardly believe his eyes. The executive director of the Kammeltal municipality in the Günzburg district can no longer open anything: “Instead of normal files, there was only a…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Aneurin Bevan health board: Theft impacting patient enquiries
Jonathon Hill reports: The Aneurin Bevan University Health Board says it is struggling to respond to patient enquiries after theft of important equipment from one of its sites. In a statement the health board has said: “Due to a break in at one of our premises last night, our Trauma and Orthopaedic Outpatients team is…
AU: Service NSW kept victims in dark after hackers stole personal data
Jess Malcolm reports: The NSW government has deliberately failed to inform tens of thousands of people that their personal information was stolen in a cyber security attack on Service NSW employee emails, as the agency says it has no obligation to notify affected customers. Documents obtained by The Australian show Service NSW decided not to…
Social-Media Data Leaks Draw Scrutiny From European Regulators
Catherine Stupp reports: Facebook Inc., Clubhouse and Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn have stressed that recently reported data leaks involved information from public user profiles, not from security breaches. In the European Union, where privacy laws require businesses to protect even publicly available personal data, that distinction may not relieve them of responsibility. Read more on WSJ.
Brit authorities could legally do an FBI and scrub malware from compromised boxen without your knowledge
Gareth Corfield comments: UK authorities could lawfully copy the FBI and forcibly remove web shells from compromised Microsoft Exchange server deployments – but some members of the British infosec industry are remarkably quiet about whether this would be a good thing. In the middle of last week the American authorities made waves after deleting web shells…
SK: State institution in Slovakia target of ransomware attacks
Irena Jenčová reports: The National Security Authority (NBÚ) registered a series of significant ransomware attacks on targets in Slovakia on Friday, that saw hackers request hundreds of thousands of euros for reopening the systems and restoring their full functionality. “At the moment, the National Security can confirm that these cyber-attacks have affected the information technology…