Dan Goodin reports on yet another sinister development involving ransomware attacks and strains: A ransomware strain discovered last month and dubbed Ekans contains the usual routines for disabling data backups and mass-encrypting files on infected systems. But researchers at security firm Dragos found something else that has the potential to be more disruptive: code that…
Genesis market 2020 overview, a bazaar for buying data out of compromised computers.
Under The Breach explains: A group of sophisticated hackers team up to sell the data of computers they managed to infect. The site began operating around the beginning of 2019 and only let users with an invitation code to join (it maintains this exclusivity until today). To find a person who has invitation codes is…
Germany Publishes Draft Regulation on the Reimbursement of Digital Health Applications
Ulrike Elteste, Kristof Van Quathem and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington & Burling write: Germany recently enacted a law that enables state health insurance schemes to reimburse costs related to the use of digital health applications (“health apps”), but the law requires the Federal Ministry of Health to first develop the reimbursement process for…
Data breach potentially exposes Eastern Virginia Medical School employees’ bank accounts
Elisha Sauers reports: Eastern Virginia Medical School is trying to beef up its email security following a phishing scam that could have exposed employees’ personal information, including bank accounts and Social Security numbers. EVMS president and provost Richard V. Homan informed staff of the breach Monday. The school had discovered Wednesday that some files might…
AU: Yarra Trams data breach: Commuters’ email addresses exposed
Timna Jacks reports: The personal email addresses of nearly 100 people have been exposed by Yarra Trams in yet another data breach involving Victorian commuters. In an email from a Yarra Trams officer to 91 commuters rejecting their compensation requests on Friday, the private email addresses of each of the commuters was exposed. Read more…
IL: Belvidere City Hall victim to cyberattack
WIFR reported the following on January 31: Local government entity fell victim to a cyberattack which denied employees access to their computers for a couple of days. “City hall has drafted a city-wide memo that we have distributed to all of our personnel,” said Chief Shane Woody, Belvidere Police Department. Read more on WIFR. The…