On April 25, UnitingCare Queensland (UCQ) was the victim of a ransomware attack that impacted multiple Queensland hospitals and aged care centres. The next day, they posted a notice on their web site informing people as to what was happening and its impact. And on May 5, they posted a second update where they revealed…
Russian National Convicted of Charges Relating to Kelihos Botnet
A federal jury in Connecticut convicted a Russian national on Tuesday for operating a “crypting” service used to conceal “Kelihos” malware from antivirus software, enabling hackers to systematically infect victim computers around the world with malicious software, including ransomware. According to court documents and evidence introduced at trial, Oleg Koshkin, 41, formerly of Estonia, operated…
Cl0p affiliated hackers exposed in Ukraine, $500 million in damages estimated
Vilius Petkauskas reports: Ukrainian police reported uncovering a group of hackers who used ransomware software to extort money from foreign businesses, mainly in the United States and South Korea. Authorities claim that hackers used Cl0p encryption software to decipher stolen data and demanded ransom for the access key. According to the police, suspects used double-extorsion,…
Alibaba Falls Victim to Chinese Web Crawler in Large Data Leak
Yang Jie and Liza Lin report: A Chinese software developer trawled Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ’s popular Taobao shopping website for eight months, clandestinely collecting more than 1.1 billion pieces of user information before Alibaba noticed the scraping, a Chinese court verdict said. The software developer began using web-crawling software he designed on Taobao’s site starting in November…
Thai government apologises for data leak, blames “temporary glitch
Jack Arthur reports: The Thai government has released a statement apologising for the data leak on Monday which saw people who registered for a Covid vaccine have their personal information revealed. The government says there was a “temporary glitch” on the thailandintervac.com vaccination booking website and the error was because of “urgent system maintenance”. Read…
Ca: Humber River Hospital hit by ransomware variant, prompt response prevented encryption and exfiltration
Humber River Hospital in Toronto was hit with a ransomware attack in the early hours of the morning of June 14. Their response was organized, immediate, and reportedly very effective. The following is a statement prominently displayed on their web site today: Code Grey- Update On June 14, 2021, at about 0200 hrs we experienced…