Razy malware has been around for a number of years now, and is still causing trouble. A Windows-based malware, one of the reasons that the malware has continued to be effective is that it can appear to be free software or a file on what would normally be a trusted site by the public, such…
ClearBalance notifying more than 209,000 patients who have medical expense loans
Many readers may never have heard of CSI Financial Services, LLC but as ClearBalance, the California firm services loans made by hospitals and providers to patients who need to finance medical expenses. A recent filing with the Maine Attorney General’s Office reveals that beginning on March 8, there was unauthorized access to some employee email…
ME: York Animal Hospital hit by ransomware, lost all patient records for past four years.
Camille Fine reports: The team at York Animal Hospital has nearly finished manually reentering inventory data that was lost to a ransomware attack that wiped all patient records from the past four years. “Five phone lines have been ringing off the hook,” owner Bill Walak said Monday. “We’ve been inundated all day.” People have been calling to make appointments…
Alliance Healthcare Services plans to ‘vigorously defend’ against ‘unfounded’ PACS-breach lawsuit
There’s been a lot of media coverage about a potential class action lawsuit filed against Northeast Radiology and Alliance Healthcare Services. Now one of the defendants has issued a statement saying it will defend itself vigorously. Marty Stempniak reports: Radiology firm Alliance Healthcare Services said it plans to “vigorously defend” itself against a recently proposed…
Microsoft discovers SolarWinds zero-day exploited in the wild
Catalin Cimpanu reports: US software company SolarWinds has released security updates on Saturday to patch a vulnerability in its Serv-U file transferring technology that is being actively exploited in the wild. The attacks and the vulnerability were discovered by Microsoft, SolarWinds said in a security advisory published over the weekend. Read more on The Record.
Spreadshop hacked. T-shirt lovers warned of “considerably vicious” data breach
Graham Cluley reports: Clients of Spreadshirt, Spreadshop, and TeamShirts have been warned of a data breach which has seen the details of customers, partners, and employees fall into the lap of cybercriminals. News of the breach first emerged on Thursday when customers were warned by email of a “security incident” involving an “unauthorised third party.” At the…