Brian Krebs reports: Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations. On Sept….
FL: Students and employees notified of Gulf Coast State College data breach
Gretchen Kernbach reports: Some Gulf Coast State College students and employees received a letter from school officials, dated Sept. 28, about a data breach that took place back between March 31, 2020 and June 3, 2020. The letter said officials learned a hacker accessed several employees’ email accounts. It also states the school launched its…
Two North American hospitality merchants hacked in May and June
Catalin CImpanu reports: In a security alert published on Thursday, US payments processor Visa revealed that two North American hospitality merchants were hacked and had their system infected with point-of-sale (POS) malware earlier this year. […] Visa published on Thursday a security alert [PDF] with a description of the two security breaches and the malware…
New Jersey hospital paid ransomware gang $670K to prevent data leak
Lawrence Abrams reports: University Hospital New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey, paid a $670,000 ransomware demand this month to prevent the publishing of 240 GB of stolen data, including patient info. The attack on the hospital occurred in early September by a ransomware operation known as SunCrypt, who infiltrates a network, steals unencrypted files, and then…
TX: Odessa residents suffer from second Click2Gov breach
Joshua Skinner reports: The city of Odessa recently had a data breach involving its online payment web portal, and this isn’t the first time it’s happened. The breach only affected users of the online Click2Gov system who made one-time payments for utility bills. Odessa uses Click2Gov as third-party provider software that allows people to pay…
Transport Malta hit by cyberattack, recovers after 5 days
Transport Malta was hit by a cyberattack during the night between September 25 and 26. They would only admit to a technical problem and gave no further details at the time, but 5 days later, the system is now back up and running. But they’re still not saying what happened or how. h/t, @Chum1ng0