Alert Code AA23-165A CISA has posted an advisory on LockBit. SUMMARY In 2022, LockBit was the most deployed ransomware variant across the world and continues to be prolific in 2023. Since January 2020, affiliates using LockBit have attacked organizations of varying sizes across an array of critical infrastructure sectors, including financial services, food and agriculture,…
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Pennsylvania Senate committee approves Phillips-Hill’s measure to protect student data, privacy
The Senate Education Committee approved the Student Data Privacy and Protection Act, according to the measure’s sponsor Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York). Senate Bill 565 modernizes Pennsylvania law to accommodate student information being stored online, as well as students learning and attending school online. As is currently stands, student-related data is being generated, collected, and stored within…
Pacific Union College was attacked on March 27. When will they publicly admit personal info was compromised?
That Pacific Union College (PUC) experienced a cyberattack is not a secret. The college even posted a notice on their website on April 7 stating that they were experiencing “Additional complications relating to the ongoing cybersecurity issue, which has recently affected some of our internal networks, phone systems, and web services. The remainder of the…
Canopy Children’s Solutions continues to investigate ransomware attack in April
In early May, a new group of threat actors known as Nokoyawa added Canopy Children’s Solutions in Mississippi to their leak site. On June 2, Mississippi Children’s Home Society, CARES Center, Inc., Mississippi Children’s Home Services, Inc., d.b.a. Canopy Children’s Solutions (“Canopy”) a press release acknowledging that on April 4, they experienced an attack that…
Rhysida ransomware group claims attack on Martinique
A ransomware group that first emerged in May has added the government of Martinique to its leak site. Although there is no current notice on Martinique’s Facebook page, on May 24, they posted a notice about the cyberattack: A machine translation of the notice reads: #Cyberattack Implementation of the continuity plan On May 16,…
Worst cyberattack in Greece disrupts high school exams, causes political spat
AP reports: Greece’s Education Ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the country’s history, aimed at disabling a centralized high school examination platform. It said the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks aimed at overwhelming the platform occurred for a second consecutive day Tuesday. The attack…