MONTREAL, July 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — D-BOX Technologies Inc. (“D-BOX” or the “Corporation”) (TSX: DBO), a world leader in haptic and immersive entertainment, announces that the Corporation is gradually resuming its activities following a ransomware cyberattack against its internal IT systems announced on July 14, 2021. All major IT systems have been restored and the…
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BlackMatter ransomware targets companies with revenue of $100 million and more
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A new ransomware gang launched into operation this week, claiming to combine the best features of the now-defunct Darkside and REvil ransomware groups, Recorded Future analysts have discovered. Named BlackMatter, the group is currently recruiting affiliates (collaborators) through ads posted on two cybercrime forums named Exploit and XSS. Read more on The Record.
PA: Allegheny Intermediate Unit notifying employees, dependents, and vendors about ransomware incident
Update and possible correction: this may be a different breach than the one first reported in February 2020. The post below has been edited to reflect that while I attempt to verify if this was a second incident or not. Yesterday, AIU issued a press release about an incident they say they discovered in January…
Judson ISD’s ransomware nightmare won’t be cheap
Brandon Lingle really laces into Judson ISD over their incident response and transparency in the wake of a June ransomware incident. It appears that the district paid an undisclosed amount of ransom to unidentified threat actors, but it’s not clear what they got for that ransom payment. It was a month before phone and email…
When Ransomware Group REvil Vanished, Its Victims Were Stranded
While Kaseya clients and their clients got some welcome help in the past few days when Kaseya announced that they had a universal decryptor go give clients — a decryptor that they claim they did not pay anyone in any way to obtain — there are are still other victims of REvil struggling. Kartikay Mehrotra…
Florida Heart Associates ransomware attack in May still impacting services and care
A May, 2021 ransomware incident impacting Florida Heart Associates was added to HHS’s breach tool this month. But what the tool doesn’t show was the significant impact to the practice’s functioning and patient care. A story on Fox4 in Florida reports that the owners refused to pay an unreported ransom demand and did get control…