Committee for Public Counsel Services
March 12, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Committee for Public Counsel Services in Boston is crippled by a ransomware attack for two weeks.
Jackson County
March 8, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
A Ryuk ransomware attack hits the computers of Jackson County, Georgia, reducing government activity to a crawl until officials decide to pay cybercriminals $400,000 in exchange for the file decryption key.
PIK-Group
February 28, 2019
•[ hack, malware ]
Researcher Marco Ramilli publishes the analysis of a malware allegedly designed to target PIK-Group, the largest real estate and homebuilder company in Russia.
MyPillow
March 20, 2019
•[ hack, malware, retail ]
Researchers from RiskIQ reveal that MyPillow.com has had numerous MageCart attackers present on their site between October 2018 and November 2018.
Orange County
March 18, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Orange County is knocked offline by a ransomware attack.
Fort Collins Loveland Water District
March 14, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, energy ]
Fort Collins Loveland Water District and South Fort Collins Sanitation District are the victim of a ransomware attack occurred on February 11.
Sir John Colfox Academy
March 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Sir John Colfox Academy is the victim of a ransomware attack that encrypts some files, causing to lose some students' GCSE coursework.
Hexion
March 12, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
Hexion, a chemical company is hit by the LockerGoga ransomware.
Columbia Surgical Specialists
March 7, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Columbia Surgical Specialists confirms to have paid a $15,000 ransom after being infected by a ransomware on January 9, and having the information of 400,000 patients encrypted.
Turkish government entity
March 4, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
Researchers from Palo Alto Networks reveal that the Iran-linked Chafer APT group used a new Python-based backdoor in recent attacks aimed at a Turkish government entity.
Lynn Public Schools
March 20, 2019
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Lynn Public Schools shut down internet after a computer virus.
Amerisleep
March 20, 2019
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Also Amerisleep was affected by MageCart attacks starting in April 2017.
Direct Scripts
March 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Direct Scripts suffers a ransomware attack on January 30, 2019 which resulted in the encryption of files containing patients' protected health information.
Delaware Guidance Services for Children and Youth (DGS)
March 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Delaware Guidance Services for Children and Youth (DGS) is forced to pay a ransom to recover files that had been encrypted in a Christmas Day ransomware attack.
Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital
March 6, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Nearly 4,800 patients at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital are notified of the ransomware attack to Wolverine Solutions.
Embassy Bangladesh in Egypt
February 27, 2019
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Researchers from Trustwave reveal that the web site for the Bangladeshi Embassy in Cairo has been compromised so that it distributes malicious Word documents, which install malware downloaders onto an infected computer.
Cabrini Hospital
February 20, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Cabrini Hospital is hit by a ransomware attack.
Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane
February 18, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane is the victim of a ransomware attack affecting 400,000 patients.
Chester County
February 18, 2019
•[ hack, malware, government ]
Chester County is hit by a malware attack.
CHI Health
February 15, 2019
•[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
CHI Health officials reveal that a device brought in by a third-party vendor introduced a malware into the health system's network.
