Lawrence Abrams reports: A new ransomware called ‘Hog’ encrypts users’ devices and only decrypts them if they join the developer’s Discord server. This week, security researcher MalwareHunterTeam found an in-development decryptor for the Hog Ransomware that requires victims to join their Discord server to decrypt their files. Read more on BleepingComputer.
US indicts John McAfee for cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering
Sergiu Gatlan reports: U.S. federal prosecutors have charged John McAfee, founder of cybersecurity firm McAfee, and his executive advisor Jimmy Gale Watson Jr for cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering. In total, McAfee, Watson, and other members of the McAfee Team were able to collect over $13 million from two cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes, according to court documents….
SC: Sandhills Medical Foundation notifies patients of vendor breach
Updated 3/6/2021: Sandhills reported this incident to Maine as impacting 39,602 patients, total. Original Post: Sandhills Medical Foundation has posted a notice of a data security incident on their web site, reproduced below. Based on the dates and description, it appears that this is the Netgain Technology LLC data breach that has previously been noted…
Idaho man charged with hacking into the computers of the City of Newnan and metro-Atlanta medical clinics
It appears that law enforcement has caught up with “Lifelock.” DataBreaches.net had reported exclusively on “Lifelock” back in April of 2018, and then again in June and July of 2018. At the time, I pointed out some of the striking similarities between “Lifelock” and “thedarkoverlord” (or the one I refer to as the first spokesperson…
CA: St. Agnes Medical Center patient data compromised in email breach at St. Alphonsus
Donald A. Promnitz reports: Saint Agnes Medical Center has experienced a cybersecurity incident that originated with a sister hospital in the Pacific Northwest. According to a media release from Saint Agnes, an employee of Oregon/Idaho-based Saint Alphonsus Health System had their email compromised by an unauthorized user. This individual used the employee’s account to send…
Spirit Airlines hit by Nefilim ransomware – Report
Marco De Felice reports: In these hours, the ransomware group Nefilim has published on the dark web a first part of data stolen from the American “ultra low cost” company Spirit Airlines. The first block contains over 40GB of data with over 33,000 files. Financial data, personal information of customers who purchased tickets to fly with…