Machine Translation of a report on an attack on an Italian health system: Ulss 6 Euganea under hacker attack. During the night, a cyber attack occurred which resulted in the blocking of most of the servers, compromising their usability. «We are working very quickly with all our IT technicians in order to restore the services as…
Welcome surprise: threat actors give victim school district a free decryptor.
On November 23, DataBreaches.net reported that Avos Locker threat actors had added Beaverhead County High School in Montana to their leak site. At the time, this site reported: From their listing, Avos Locker is clearly aware that this is a tiny school district with only a few hundred students and less than two dozen teachers….
NY: Riverhead schools hit by ransomware attack, shutting down computer and tech infrastructure
Alek Lewis reports: The Riverhead Central School District was hit by a ransomware attack this morning, shutting down the district’s computer and technology infrastructure for what officials said could be several days. The district sent out a statement this morning at 8:48 a.m. on their social media alerting parents to what was then described as…
Snatch ransomware team adds health insurer victim to their leak site
In April, CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield posted a notice on its website concerning a ransomware attack in January. The health plan’s announcement reports that the preliminary assessments suggested that: the attack was limited to CHPDC. Early analysis also indicates that members of other CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield companies, the Federal Employees Program (FEP) and Federal…
Oops! County explains how driver’s licenses were posted in place of animal adoption photos
Jakob Emerson reports: Sangamon County Animal Control (SCAC) is embroiled in a community controversy once again. SCAC is responsible for the sharing of uncensored photos of Illinois driver’s licenses to the internet in the place of photos of animals available for adoption at the facility. Anyone in the world with an internet connection could see photos, names,…
Two Georgia men sentenced for using Dark Web to steal identities of elderly victims
ATLANTA – Durrell Tyler and DeShawn Johnson have been sentenced for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft related to their use of stolen identities to open accounts with credit card companies and various retailers. “Criminals using dark net markets to steal identities wreak havoc on the lives of individuals and compromise the financial security…