Jake Spring reports: Brazilian medical lab company Fleury SA (FLRY3.SA) said in a securities filing that a cyberattack had resulted in a partial outage of its information technology systems on Tuesday. Read more on Reuters. Update of June 27: REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware operators have added Fleury to their leak site. The threat actors claim to have acquired…
LV Ransomware Group Repurposed REvil Binary, Researchers Find
Dennis Fisher reports: Researchers have discovered that the LV ransomware that has been in use since late 2020 is actually a modified version of the REvil ransomware binary that is being distributed by a separate threat group. An analysis of the LV ransomware binary by Secureworks Counter Threat Unit researchers shows that LV is a version of…
Cyberattack on Polish government officials linked to Russian hackers
Maggie Miller reports: A recent string of cyberattacks targeted at thousands of Polish email users, including government officials, have been linked by the Polish intelligence services to a Russian hacking group. “The findings of the Internal Security Agency and the Military Counterintelligence Service show that the UNC1151 group is behind the recent hacker attacks that…
Personal information may have been leaked to the dark web after cyberattack on Tulsa’s computer system, officials warn
Aya Elamroussi and Chris Boyette report: Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are warning residents their personal information may have been leaked to the dark web following a ransomware attack on the city last month. The city announced Tuesday that hackers obtained more than 18,000 city files. The leaked files are mostly police citations and internal department files, officials…
UK: Every business in the South East to get access to Police CyberAlarm
Here’s one proactive approach to helping businesses and organizations keep current on the threat landscape: The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) has today (21/6) announced that every business and organisation in the region can now get access to a free tool called Police CyberAlarm, designed to help them understand and monitor the threats…
WorkForce West Virginia notifies clients of potential data breach
Jeff Jenkins reports: WorkForce West Virginia has notified a number of state residents in the past week of a potential data breach involving some of their personal information. WorkForce said that on April 13 it learned that “an unauthorized individual” accessed the Mid Atlantic Career Consortium Employment Services database and potentially could have taken personal…