From a statement on Guilford Technical Community College‘s web site that seems to have been removed: On Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, GTCC had an unauthorized access to the college network. Campuses were shut down for Monday, Sept. 14, 2020 to limit the extent of the unauthorized access and determine its impact. As of today’s update…
TX: School district reaches out to FBI following cyberattack
KRIS-TV reports: Administrators with the Skidmore-Tynan Independent School District reported they have reached out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation following a cyberattack. School administrators said they were victims of a cyberattack Tuesday afternoon. “(We have) given the FBI everything they need to investigate the incident,” school officials said. Read more on KRIS-TV. h/t, @Chum1ng0
UPDATE: City of Carmel website remains down after hacking incident
Kurt Christian reports: Carmel’s official city website remained out of service Friday afternoon while officials investigated a hacking incident. The city said its information technology department discovered shortly after 8 a.m. Friday that carmel.in.gov had been been hit by hackers. City spokesman Dan McFeely said the city immediately took down the website and is now working to…
Ontario nurses’ regulatory body investigating ‘cyber security incident’
Kate Dubinski reports: The College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) has been dealing with a “cyber security incident” that may have compromised the personal information of its almost 200,000 members, CBC News has learned. The name of the college and some of the information hackers say they have access to appears on a website associated with…
Partners in crime: North Koreans and elite Russian-speaking cybercriminals
New post by Mark Arena of Intel471 begins: This blog post takes a look at the credibility of claims in public reports of North Korean (referred to as DPRK for the rest of this post) links to Russian-speaking cybercriminals. The post is based as much as possible on public and open sources from credible parties…
Did ransomware threat actors hit a German medical clinic by mistake? Either way, someone died as a result.
It was our nightmare realized: a medical center was completely paralyzed by a ransomware attack and someone died as a result (SEE UPDATE2 below for correction on that). As of last week, the University Clinic in Düsseldorf reported that it was in a state of emergency. Operations had been canceled, and ambulances had to be…