Orange County
March 18, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Orange County is knocked offline by a ransomware attack.
Haylands Primary School
March 18, 2019
•[ hack, malware, education ]
Haylands Primary School in Ryde become aware of a malware virus affecting their IT systems. Upon investigation they realize there had been unauthorised log-ins to the school server.
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.
Unknown Organization
March 14, 2019
•[ espionage, malware, government ]
A Pakistani government site used as a tracking platform for passport applications is compromised to deliver a ScanBox framework payload which captures the visitors' machine information and logs their keystrokes.
Ballard Northwest Senior Center
March 14, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
The Ballard Northwest Senior Center has its server wiped just by a ransomware attack, just weeks before their biggest fundraiser of the year.
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.
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.
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.
Maffi Clinics
March 13, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Maffi Clinics, alerts 10,465 patients that some of their protected health information was potentially compromised as a result of a September 11, 2018 ransomware attack.
Hexion
March 12, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
Hexion, a chemical company is hit by the LockerGoga ransomware.
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.
Momentive
March 12, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
Momentive, a chemical company controlled by the same fund than Hexion, is also hit by the LockerGoga ransomware.
Japanese Banking Customers
March 12, 2019
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
Researchers from Cybereason discover a new variant of the Ursnif malware, using most new evasion techniques and targeting Japanese Users.
People's Government of Yiling District
March 11, 2019
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
A statement issued by the People's Government of Yiling District, Yichang reveals that Chinese officials have been the target of a Gandcrab ransomware attack.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Topps
February 27, 2019
•[ financial, malware, retail ]
Sports trading card and collectible company Topps issues a data breach notification stating that it was affected by a Magecart attack, which possibly exposed the payment and address information of its customers.
