While Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola downplayed the number of affected customers, some of them are MSPs. Estimates are that up to 1,500 organizations have been affected. Clearly, the supply chain nature of t…
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IOTW: REvil Ransomware Attack Hits Potentially Thousands of Businesses
Each business that has been disrupted by file encryption has received a ransomware notice demanding payment of thousands or millions of dollars, depending on the size of the company. The attacks threa…
IOTW: DOJ Indicts Network Security Firm COO
Singla has been charged with 17 counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and one count of obtaining information from a protected computer – specifically, patient data. The case is now bein…
IOTW: McDonald's Cyber Attack Targets Data
McDonald’s reportedly said that the scope of the information leak was “small” and that it had hired outside consultants after it identified unauthorized access to one of the internal security systems….
IOTW: JBS Recovers Quickly from a Ransomware Attack
Like the Colonial Pipeline attack, there was speculation about the impact of the incident on supply and product pricing. If the impact of the JBS attack didn’t last long, wholesale prices were expecte…
IOTW: MacOS Security Patches Issued Again
The latest exploit necessitated a macOS update to 11.4 on May 24, which prevents XCSSET malware from being installed on a user’s device. The spyware is capable of recording Zoom video, taking pictures…
IOTW: Irish Healthcare Data for Sale on the Dark Web
The fear now is that scammers unrelated to the Health Service Executive (HSE) attack will buy the data for their own nefarious use. Already, HSE is facing regulatory fines as the result of GDPR and ma…
IOTW: Scripps Health Malware Attack Could Cost Lives
Scripps is not discussing the attack, nor is it providing any meantime to recovery (MTTR) estimate. The uncertainty and tight-lipped nature of the incident is not a surprise to anyone in the cyber sec…
IOTW: Ransomware Attack Closes Colonial Pipeline
U.S. critical infrastructure has become a popular cyberwarfare target. The weak underbelly has been aging tech and industrial control systems (ICSs) which may lack adequate physical and cyber security…
IOTW: DC Police Department Hit with Ransomware; Hackers "Quit"
Incident is reflective of an evolution of ransomware attacks, from encrypting files and demanding ransom money for a decryption key to encrypting the file and threatening to publish the information if…