Conor Faulkner reports: A cyberattack on a leading pharmaceutical supply company has disrupted the distribution of medicines to Spanish pharmacies. The attack, which started last Friday and is still ongoing, has affected wholesale supplier Alliance Healthcare’s servers and delayed and even prevented the normal delivery of some medicines to pharmacies in Spain, according to Spanish daily El…
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More victims possibly identified in GoAnywhere vulnerability incident
Zack Whittaker and Carly Page report: The number of victims affected by a mass-ransomware attack, caused by a bug in a popular data transfer tool used by businesses around the world, continues to grow as another organization tells TechCrunch that it was also hacked. Canadian financing giant Investissement Québec confirmed to TechCrunch that “some employee personal…
Stung by Free Decryptor, Ransomware Group Embraces Extortion
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Not all ransomware groups wield crypto-locking malware. In their continuing quest for extortionate profits, some have moved away from encryption and pressure victims purely by threatening to leak stolen data unless they receive a ransom payment. This seems to have been the case for BianLian, a prolific ransomware group that emerged…
N.L. says Hive ransomware group was behind 2021 cyberattack on health systems
Rob Antle reports: The Newfoundland and Labrador government says the Hive ransomware group was behind a cyberattack that paralyzed the province’s health-care system a year and a half ago. But top government officials still won’t say whether they paid a ransom. “We can’t disclose anything about a request for a ransom, for security purposes,” Justice…
What’s new in ransomware gang pressure tactics? Not as much as you might think.
It’s hard to believe, but it has really been 17 years since PogoWasRight.org began blogging about breaches, and it’s been 14 years since this spinoff site, DataBreaches.net, opened. Since then, DataBreaches has often reported on criminals’ tactics to secure payment from victims, especially those in the healthcare sector. Thousands of archived posts on DataBreaches.net provide…
Cerebral Inc. notifying 3,179,835 patients of tracking technologies breach
Cerebral Inc. has notified HHS of a breach affecting 3,179,835 individuals. They are the latest entity to report a breach due to exposing personal or protected health information data through tracking analytics. According to April Strauss, Esq.: On March 6, 2023, Cerebral began sending emails to users of its platforms, admitting that it uses pixels…