Oisin Sweeney reports a follow-up to a previously noted Ho Mobile breach: On Monday (January 4th) the Vodafone owned company confirmed a massive data breach and is now taking the unprecedented step of offering to replace the SIM cards of all 2.5 million affected customers. Read more on EuroWeekly.
Belgian consultancy Finalyse emerges unscathed from ransomware attack
Pieterjan Van Leemputten reports that one of Avaddon’s victims successfully aborted a ransomware attack and was able to restore from backup. And worse for the attackers, Finalyse reportedly isn’t concerned about the 98 GB Avaddon claims to have exfiltrated. The attackers posted a screencap of the directory to pressure Finalyse, but it seems to have…
“Without Undue Delay, Part 1:” Update on earlier ransomware cases
In November, DataBreaches.net published a commentary arguing that patients need to be notified sooner of ransomware dumps even if HIPAA would seem to allow up to 60 days. As a companion to that piece, this site looked at 30 claimed ransomware attacks on U.S. healthcare entities that had been revealed on dedicated leak sites by…
Lizard Squad says it has nothing to do with Trump lawyer’s pedophilia claims
From the department of wackadoodle-news, we bring you this report from Mikael Thalen, who is not himself wackadoodle: A former member of the Lizard Squad hacking group is pushing back against claims made by L. Lin Wood, the attorney attempting to overturn the 2020 election on behalf of President Donald Trump. In a series…
Attacks targeting healthcare organizations spike globally as COVID-19 cases rise again– Researchers
Check Point writes: At the end of October 2020, we reported that hospitals and healthcare organizations had been targeted by a rising wave of ransomware attacks, with the majority of attacks using the infamous Ryuk ransomware. This followed a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory issued by the CISA, FBI and HHS, which warned of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to US hospitals…
Indian government sites leaking patient COVID-19 test results
Is there anyone who didn’t see this coming? Ax Sharma reports: Websites of multiple Indian government departments, including national health and welfare agencies, are leaking COVID-19 lab test results for thousands of patients online. These leaked lab reports which are being indexed by search engines expose patient data, and whether they tested positive for coronavirus. Read more on BleepingComputer.