Tanmayee Tyagi reports: Merely a month after Haldiram Snacks Private Limited corporate office in Noida suffered a ransomware attack, the servers of another Noida-based sweets manufacturing company were hacked and their data was encrypted in a different format that that which the company uses. According to the company, the incident took place on the afternoon…
Update: Has Guilford Technical Community College notified more than 43,000 students of data breach?
On September 19, DataBreaches.net reported that Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC) in North Carolina had apparently become a ransomware victim of DoppelPaymer on September 13. But on October 6, GTCC was no longer listed on the threat actors’ dedicated leak site. The removal of a victim’s name often indicates that the victim had a change…
Press Trust of India services disrupted by LockBit ransomware attack
Business Line reports: The Press Trust of India’s computer servers suffered a massive ransomware attack, disrupting operations and the delivery of news to hundreds of subscribers across India for several hours, before they were restored after an all-night effort by engineers, a company spokesperson said on Sunday. The attack by the ransomware, which identified itself…
A nightmare breach involving psychotherapy records just got worse
There’s an update to previous post about a ransom situation in Finland impacting 40,000 psychotherapy patients at Vastaamo. As initially reported by Vastaamo, a psychotherapy practice with multiple offices and locations, they had been hacked and the hacker had acquired records of patients who had registered before the end of November 2018. Other sources reported…
FL: Cybersecurity incident causes Indian River County network to shutdown
FOX29 reports: Indian River County officials are investigating a cybersecurity system that has shut down employee emails, VoIP phones, and the county’s website. The network interruption was discovered Thursday night around 9 p.m. and has since impacted network capabilities in various county offices. Read more on FOX29.
Hackers behind life-threatening attack on chemical maker are sanctioned
Dan Goodin reports: Russian state nationals accused of wielding life-threatening malware specifically designed to tamper with critical safety mechanisms at a petrochemical plant are now under sanction by the US Treasury Department. The attack drew considerable concern because it’s the first known time hackers have used malware designed to cause death or injury, a prospect that…