Argentina: More than 14,000 Reports Last Year Between April 2020 and March 2021, the Specialized Cybercrime Prosecution Unit registered 14,583 reports of cases associated with cybercrime, a 465% increase over the previous year. The #DatosEnFuga project attempts to improve security and data protection. It is an initiative of the organizations Democracia en Red, Fundación Vía Libre…
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CSIRT: Cyber Security Alert: Public Service Incident
NOTE: The following CSIRT alert relates to the SERNAC incident previously reported on DataBreaches. The alert is reproduced in machine translation of the original Spanish. The Computer Security Incident Response Team, Government CSIRT , reports on an incident in progress that affects a government service, during the day of Thursday, August 25, which has interrupted the…
HC3 Threat Profile: Evil Corp
The following is not a paragraph from a story about fictional cybercriminals called Evil Corp. The following paragraph is from a white paper released this week by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services because there is a criminal enterprise known as Evil Corp that poses a serious threat to the healthcare sector. Typographical…
SERNAC computer services hacked: Chile’s Interior Ministry assessing scope of cyberattack
The National Consumer Service (SERNAC) is the public service in Chile that is responsible for safeguarding and promoting consumer rights. On August 25, LaTercera reported that SERNAC’s website was down due to a cyberattack. SERNAC is coordinating their investigation and response with the Computer Emergency Response Team (CSIRT), the division of the Ministry of the…
NHS cyberattack causing ‘total chaos’ in hospitals could take a year to recover
Rebecca Thomas reports: It could take more than a year for hospitals to recover patient record systems following the recent NHS cyberattack, The Independent has learned. Hospitals impacted are likely to need two weeks to recover for every day the situation goes unresolved, according to NHS sources. While initial attention following the ransomware attack on Advantage software was its impact on…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Dominican Republic: The Instituto Agrario Dominicano (IAD) The IAD was reportedly hit by Quantum ransomware. According to local media reporting, the attack occurred on August 18. “They ask for more than 600 thousand dollars. We were affected by four physical servers and eight virtual servers; virtually all servers,” IAD Director of Technology Walixson Amaury Nuñez…