Ransomware Attack
Lewisham Council hit by Ransomware Attack
Lewisham Council, the local authority of Lewisham London Borough based in Catford, UK is said to have become a victim of ransomware cyber attack last week. As per the details available in the news section of the website, an authorized access to the IT storage portal is said to have occurred in April this year. […]
Atlanta Ransomware attack could cost city taxpayers $17 million
In March 2018, the government servers in the city of Atlanta were targeted by ransomware which led to the disruption of almost all the government’s digital services and data loss in some departments which includes the water utility and the police surveillance footage storage systems. According to a confidential audit report prepared by the Atlanta […]
Cyber Attack news for this week
UK’s largest electronics retailer Dixons Carphone has made an official announcement on Tuesday that around 10 million records containing personal data of its customers could have been obtained in a cyber attack in 2017- which is much higher than the earlier estimates. However, the UK based company which holds a retail network clarified that the […]
Cyber Attack on Boys Town Hospital and Blue Springs Family Care
A cyber attack on the database of Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska is said to have potentially compromised more than 105,309 patient medical records in May this year. After investigating the crisis, a spokesperson from Boys Town Healthcare chose to update the cyber incident to the press on Thursday this week. As […]
Cyber Attack on COSCO
COSCO US, a shipping agency having its headquarters in Shanghai, China is reported to have been hit by a cyber attack on Tuesday this week. The company has issued a press statement to its customers which confirmed an attack on its digital assets affecting the ocean water carrier’s communication in the American region only. COSCO […]
Ransomware attack on LabCorp
North Carolina based LabCorp AKA Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings has mentioned in its recent 8K filings to the US Security Exchange Commission that it became a victim to a ransomware attack on July 14th this year. And some of its IT assets are still under the encryption of the hackers. Note 1- 8K-filing is […]
Spider ransomware on the rise
Spider ransomware which was first detected by researchers from Netskope in Dec’17 is now found spreading malicious files via phishing campaign that gives victims a 96-hour deadline. Researchers say that this time the developers of the said malware are circulating the malicious word files as attachments which can be auto-synced to enterprise cloud storage and […]
Ransomware attack on CASS Regional Medical Center
Cass Regional Medical Center which is based in Missouri has released an official statement saying that the systems at its medical facility were reigning under ransomware attack and so the hospital will see an EHR(Electronic Health Records) downtime until the attack is resolved. Note- EHR is nothing but medical records stored in digital format. The […]
Fake Ransomware attack claims hit email boxes in the West
Online users in Western Countries, especially in US and UK, have become soft targets for a new type of ransomware attack campaign. Security researchers from Sophos Labs say that the inboxes of email users are now being targeted with scary messages that say that a nasty ransomware infection is going to infect their computers if […]
Weekend Cyber Security News
Google has decided not to allow the use of Artificial Intelligence software in weapons and in surveillance efforts taken up by the government. Thus, with the latest declaration, the internet juggernaut has put an end to the months of protest put forward by their employees against the Company’s work with the US Military on Project […]
