The Morning Call reports: The Lehigh Valley Health Network has been the target of a cyberattack from a suspected Russian ransomware group. In a statement issued Monday morning, LVHN President and CEO Brian A. Nester said, “Lehigh Valley Health Network has been the target of a cybersecurity attack by a ransomware gang, known as BlackCat,…
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MKS Instruments’ breach notification includes a surprising statement to reassure those affected
Well, this is a bit different. On February 13, MKS Instruments in Massachusetts (the U.S. parent company of the MKS and Atotech group of companies) became aware of a ransomware event. By February 16, they issued a notification letter to former and current employees who may have been affected. Their notification informed employees that, “While…
Update: Wawasee Community School Corporation victim of BlackCat attack
The Wawasee Community School Corporation in Indiana was reportedly the victim of a cyberattack by BlackCat. The threat actors have now leaked what they claim are 9.78 GB of files on their leak site because Wawasee did not pay their demands. Perhaps luckily for Wawasee, the download link is not working at this time. There…
California Northstate University student and employee data stolen
In a new listing by AvosLocker, the threat actors leak personal information that can make employees’ lives difficult for years to come. In their leak site listing for California Northstate University, AvosLocker claims: We have Student admissions data include Name, Social Security Number, Date Of Birth, Address, Email, Telephone. All College employees W-2 include in…
Healthcare giant CHS reports first data breach in GoAnywhere hacks
Sergiu Gatlan has more on a claimed zero-day attack on Fortra’s GoAnywhere file transfer software. The attack, which Clop claimed responsibility for, has been linked to at least one confirmed victim, Community Health Systems, as first reported by DataBreaches.net. Gatlan reports that Fortra (formerly known as HelpSystems) disclosed to its customers last week that a new vulnerability (CVE-2023-0669)…
Royal Mail refused to pay ‘absurd’ LockBit ransom, chat logs say
Carly Page reports: The LockBit ransomware gang has published what it claims is the full transcript of its negotiations with Royal Mail, which continues to experience disruption due to last month’s cyberattack. The chat logs negotiating the ransom is the first data that LockBit has published following the cyberattack on Royal Mail, which left the British postal service…