Josh Renaud reports: The Social Security numbers of school teachers, administrators and counselors across Missouri were vulnerable to public exposure due to flaws on a website maintained by the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Post-Dispatch discovered the vulnerability in a web application that allowed the public to search teacher certifications and credentials…
Update: Missouri Delta Medical Center acknowledges ransomware incident
DataBreaches.net has continued to follow up on the ransomware attack on Missouri Delta Medical Center claimed by Hive threat actors. This site broke the story about the breach on September 12. Several days ago, the listing for MDMC was removed from Hive’s leak site, despite the threat actors’ warnings that they were going to follow…
Cyberattack targets Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera
Yaron Doron reports: The computer systems of Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera were targeted Wednesday morning by a ransomware cyberattack. Hillel Yaffe asked that Magen David Adom and the Health Ministry send them only patients requiring urgent care. Ongoing medical care was uninterrupted, although elective procedures were put on hold. Read more on Israel…
ATM skimmers are still a thing– stay vigilant
There was a time when news stories about skimmers at banks, gas stations, and stores were all the rage. And then coverage dropped out of the headlines. But out of sight does not mean out of crime. Sahar Chmais reports: Tens of Hays County residents have reported credit card information theft in gas stations across…
Ukraine Police Cuff Botnet Herder Who Controlled 100K Machines
Phil Muncaster reports: Ukrainian law enforcers have arrested a suspected botnet herder responsible for controlling an automated network of around 100,000 compromised machines to launch DDoS and other attacks. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) claimed the resident of Ivano-Frankivsk also used the botnet to launch spam campaigns, scan for vulnerabilities in websites to exploit, and brute-force…
Dutch police send warning letters to customers of DDoS booter service
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Dutch police have taken a rare step this week and sent letters to 29 individuals who used a now-defunct DDoS-for-hire service —also known as a DDoS booter— to launch DDoS attacks against various targets. In the letters, Dutch officials warned users that they’d been added to a database of past miscreants, and…