Another Urology Clinic is Victimized In late 2016, the Metropolitan Urology Group was hit with ransomware. Now, Urology Austin, located in Austin, Texas, just released they were hit with ransomware on January 22, 2017. Ransomware, the malware that locks critical files and demands a payment from the victim to release the files, has been taking the […]
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Richmond Housing Agency Lost a Month’s Worth of Data The Richmond Housing Agency, in Indiana, was recently hit with a ransomware attack. The systems were infected in on February 27, 2017. The ransomware variant is believed to have ties back to India. After encrypting the housing agency’s systems, hackers demanded $8,000 to restore the company’s
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Metropolitan Urology Group Found Patient Information Leaked During Ransomware Attack In November, 2016, the Metropolitan Urology Group (MUG) was hit with a ransomware attack. Two months later, in January, 2017, MUG discovered the hackers obtained private, patient information during the attack. The patients impacted are those who rendered services between 2003 and 2010. The information exposed
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The Today Show featured another piece on cyber security today, this time discussing ransomware. During which, Tom Costello claimed the best way to protect yourself from a ransomware attack is to back up your data. This cannot be further from the truth. First of all, backups do not protect you from becoming a victim of ransomware. It can be
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Wood River Police Department of Illinois Hit With Ransomware According to The Telegraph, on March 5, 2017 the Wood River Police Department was hit with a malicious phishing attack that included ransomware. The phishing attack was successful, infecting one computer. However, the issues that presented after the attack set off red flags for the officers.
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PA State Senate Ransomware Attack Pennsylvania senators were unable to access their computer networks and data after ransomware took over the Pennsylvania Senate’s computer systems. According to 10 TV, the attack hasn’t affected the state’s networks, which are separate from the Senate’s computers. The ransomware variant that successfully infiltrated the Senate’s system is not being disclosed, nor
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Companies Are Prepping to Pay Cyber Criminals According to Coin Telegraph, many corporations are preparing for ransomware attacks by increasing their supply of the non-traceable currency, bitcoins. Since bitcoins are not traceable, it is typically the currency of choice by hackers. Am I the only one who thinks this is absolutely absurd? Malware attacks of
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CloudPets Breached Leaving 820k Users Exposed The children’s toy, CloudPets, has been breached, leaving 820,000 users exposed. This led to an estimated 2.2 million voice recordings between parents and their children being leaked. What is most shocking is just how avoidable this data breach was. According to Troy Hunt, the platform the toy used, MongoDB, did
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Spora Ransomware Targets Chrome Users A new ransomware campaign is targeting Google Chrome users. If Chrome users visit a compromised site, an alert will pop up prompting the user to “update” a Chrome font extension. The false update claims it need to execute because Hoefler Text is not found. Although this text font is legitimate, the
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In a recent survey conducted by PC Matic, participants were asked to self-identify their computer skills. Below is a break down of the participants: PC Experts Aren’t Aware of #1 Cyber Threat Out of the 19% of self-identified PC experts, 15% of them reported not being aware of what ransomware is. Could it be possible
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