The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: Capcom Co., an Osaka-based major game software maker, announced Monday that up to 350,000 pieces of information, including those of its customers, might have been compromised by cyber-attacks. The company said the potentially stolen data includes its customers’ personal details, such as names, telephone numbers and email addresses. The company also…
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Egregor threat actors pose risk to medical and dental entities
While some ransomware threat actors claim that they will not attack medical entities, others have not made any such pledge. In “Without Undue Delay,” DataBreaches.net noted that Egregor ransomware threat actors had added Dyras Dental in Michigan to their leak site in September. As I reported in that paper: The data dumped by the attackers as…
Correction and Update: Mount Locker team denies responsibility for Sonoma Valley Hospital attack
On November 9, DataBreaches.net published “Without Undue Delay” which catalogued health sector ransomware attacks where attackers had dumped patient data as part of an attempt to pressure their victims into paying ransom. That report was a companion to a post arguing that patients need to be notified sooner of ransomware dumps than HIPAA’s 60-day window…
AU: Newcastle Grammar School Targeted In Cyber Attack
Ian Crouch reports: Newcastle Grammar School has been the target of a cyber attack by criminals. School officials became aware of the attack at the weekend, with ransomware used to encrypt and destroy part of the school’s IT network. Fairfax reports the perpetrators have tried to extort money from the school to unlock the damage….
“Email Appender” Implants Malicious Emails Directly Into Mailboxes
As if we didn’t have enough breaches that start by compromising an employee’s email account, now there’s more to worry about. Imagine that despite training your employees to be careful, and despite using updated AV or other software to detect nasties, a threat actor could deliver malware-laden emails directly into your employees’ inboxes. Will employees…
Damien Bancal
Damien Bancal reports (translation follows): I revealed to you, last November 3, the announced piracy of the pharmaceutical laboratory Expanscience (Mustela…). A second cyberattack, in four months, posted by a group of ransomware operators. After Maze , Egregor explained that he had invited himself to the company’s IT. On November 9, I discovered that the Bailly Creat lab, a French pharmaceutical laboratory specializing…