Plastic Surgery Associates
July 29, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Plastic Surgery Associates reveals that a data breach may have compromised patient records after it was hit with a ransomware attack earlier this year on 12 February.
KQED
July 18, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
KQED, a San Francisco radio station is still recovering from a ransomware attack, nearly one month after.
Cleveland Medical Associates
June 22, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Cleveland Medical Associates reveals the details of a ransomware attack that happened on April 21, 2017.
Undetermined
June 27, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
Threat actors deploy a tool, called NotPetya, with the purpose of encrypting data on victims' machines and rendering it unusable. The malware was spread through tax software that companies and individuals require for filing taxes in Ukraine and spread globally.'Australia, Estonia,'Denmark, Lithuania, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States issued statements attributing NotPetya to Russian state-sponsored actors.
Airway Oxygen
June 22, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Airway Oxygen notifies that a ransomware attack in mid-April resulted in the compromise of data belonging to 550,000 customers and employees.
Nayana
June 19, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, technology ]
A South Korean Web-hosting service provider, Nayana, agrees to pay $1 million to a ransomware operation that encrypted data stored on 153 Linux servers and 3,400 customer websites via the Erebus ransomware.
Pekin Community High School
April 30, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
A ransomware attack takes down Pekin Community High School.
Ulster University
June 16, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
The Ulster University is also hit by ransomware.
CD Projekt Red
June 8, 2017
•[ ransomware, technology ]
CD Projekt Red, the Polish studio maker behind the popular The Witcher 3 RPG, suffers a data breach and the attacker is holding the company for ransom, threatening to release stolen files if the game maker doesn't pay an undisclosed sum of money.
University College London
June 15, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, education ]
University College London is hit by a "major" ransomware attack which brings down its shared drives and student management system. The attack also leads to a number of hospital trusts suspending their email servers as a precautionary measure, in an attempt to prevent the repetition of last month's damaging WannaCry epidemic.
Russian Central Bank
May 12, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, finance ]
A threat actor used a tool called WannaCry to encrypt data in compromised networks, and intended to provide the victims with the decryption key only after a ransom had been paid. The threat actors used an exploit, called EternalBlue--first discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency--to propagate WannaCry in organizations using the Windows operating system. The Russian Central Bank detected an attack on its systems, but was able to thwart it.
Renault
May 12, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
A threat actor used a tool called WannaCry to encrypt data in compromised networks, and intended to provide the victims with the decryption key only after a ransom had been paid. The threat actors used an exploit, called EternalBlue--first discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency--to propagate WannaCry in organizations using the Windows operating system. The attack shut down Renault operations in several countries.
Nissan
May 12, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, manufacturing ]
A threat actor used a tool called WannaCry to encrypt data in compromised networks, and intended to provide the victims with the decryption key only after a ransom had been paid. The threat actors used an exploit, called EternalBlue--first discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency--to propagate WannaCry in organizations using the Windows operating system. The attack shut down a Nissan factory in Sunderland.
Timr Municipality
May 12, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
A threat actor used a tool called WannaCry to encrypt data in compromised networks, and intended to provide the victims with thedecryption key only after a ransom had been paid. The threat actors used an exploit, called EternalBlue--first discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency--to propagate WannaCry in organizations using the Windows operating system.
Waverly Health Center
June 14, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Waverly Health Center is hit by ransomware, causing the medical facility to shut down their IT systems.
West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company
May 12, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, energy ]
A threat actor used a tool called WannaCry to encrypt data in compromised networks, and intended to provide the victims with the decryption key only after a ransom had been paid. The threat actors used an exploit, called EternalBlue--first discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency--to propagate WannaCry in organizations using the Windows operating system.
Netflix
April 28, 2017
•[ ransomware, misconfiguration, technology ]
TheDarkOverlord leaks upcoming episode of Orange is the New Black after Netflix doesn't pay extortion demand. The hack happened via a "production vendor".
City of Newark
April 25, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
A ransomware attack hits some municipal computers in New Jersey's most populous city, Newark.
Greenway Health
April 24, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, healthcare ]
Greenway Health is the victim of a ransomware attack.
Mountain Home Water Department
March 14, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The servers of Mountain Home Water Department fall victim to a ransomware attack.
