Gareth Corfield reports: Jointly US-Dutch owned Booking.com was illegally accessed by an American attacker in 2016 – and the company failed to tell anyone when it became aware of what happened, according to explosive revelations. The alleged miscreant, named as “Andrew”, is said to have stolen “details of thousands of hotel reservations in countries in…
Israeli Cyber Unit action removes Black Shadow Iran-affiliated hacking website
JNS reports: The Israeli Cyber Unit, part of the State Prosecution Office, led the removal of a website belonging to the Black Shadow Iranian-affiliated hacking website after it targeted a number of Israeli websites, Walla reported on Thursday. “The removal of the site means a significant reduction to expose personal materials publicized by Black Shadow, a hacking group affiliated…
Southern Ohio Medical Center hit by cyber-attack
Adam Black reports: Patients who had appointments at Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) facilities Thursday received notice that their appointments were canceled due to an emergency. Rumors quickly started circulating that the hospital and its facilities we unable to access their computers or phone lines due to the computer system being down. It was later…
MediaMarkt still blocked for ransomware attack. Open shops, intermittent services
Zach Shipman reports: The MediaMarktSaturn group has suffered a heavy ramsonware attack in recent days. It is difficult to say who did it: someone from Holland is ready to believe that it is the Hive group, which would have asked for 240 million dollars in bitcoin, however at the moment there is no claim on…
Waikato DHB warned a cyber attack ‘catastrophic for patient safety’
Natalie Akoorie reports: The Waikato District Health Board was warned its IT security was inadequate and severely compromised just months before a massive ransomware attack that brought Waikato Hospital to its knees. The internal cyber security document dated December last year also warned that a lack of training meant staff posed an unintentional threat to…
HPE says hackers breached Aruba Central using stolen access key
Lawrence Abrams reports: HPE has disclosed that data repositories for their Aruba Central network monitoring platform were compromised, allowing a threat actor to access collected data about monitored devices and their locations. Aruba Central is a cloud networking solution that allows administrators to manage large networks and components from a single dashboard. Read more on…