#ransomware attack

#ransomware attack

A hospital in Idaho has been diverting ambulances to other hospitals for more than 24 hours because of a cyberattack, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Wednesday in the latest example of a hacking incident complicating health care in the US.The cyberattack took place on Monday and has forced nurses and doctors at Idaho Falls Community Hospital, an 88-bed hospital in the east of the state, to use pen and paper rather than computers for patient charts, hospital spokesperson Brian Ziel told CNN.

UK-based business process outsourcing and professional services company Capita said on Wednesday that it expects to incur costs ranging between roughly £15 million ($19 million) and £20 million ($25 million) as a result of the recent cybersecurity incident, but it has not clarified whether that includes a ransom payment to the hackers.

Produce giant Dole admitted in a document submitted on Wednesday to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the recent ransomware attack resulted in unauthorized access to employee information.The Ireland-based company said in February that it was forced to shut down some plants due to the cyberattack, but still claimed that impact on its operations was limited.

Founded in 1872, the company provides ship management services to hundreds of organizations in the maritime industry, including monitoring of incoming and outgoing vessel traffic in ports, emergency response services, and more.Royal Dirkzwager fell victim to the cyberattack on March 6, being forced to take systems offline and suspend several services.

The state of Illinois was among the victims of a global ransomware attack late last month that is believed to have exploited a vulnerability in a popular file transfer program, the state's information technology agency announced Friday.The FBI and the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have attributed the attack, which hit Illinois state government May 31, to a ransomware gang called CL0P, which exploited the popular MOVEit Transfer file-sharing software.

An emerging threat actor has been targeting organizations in the US and South Korea with a new ransomware family based on leaked Babuk source code, Cisco's Talos research unit reports.Dubbed RA Group and active since April 2023, the gang has compromised at least three organizations in the US and one in South Korea, spanning across the insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and wealth management sectors.

The City of Dallas is dealing with a ransomware attack that took the Dallas Police Department website offline but so far appears to have limited impact on city services for residents, the city said in a statement on Wednesday.City officials have confirmed that a number of servers have been compromised with ransomware, impacting several functional areas, including the police department's website, the statement said.

In response to a cybercrime group's claims, home security firm Ring says it has no evidence that it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack.Founded in 2013 and acquired by Amazon in 2018, Ring started with a smart doorbell and later expanded its portfolio with an alarm system and other smart home security products.

The chief executive of Royal Mail is stepping down after only two years following an acrimonious tussle with unions.Simon Thompson, who took the top job in early 2021, will stay on until the end of October as the postal firm seeks its fourth boss in four years.Royal Mail's parent company, International Distributions Services, said it was in the advanced stages of appointing a new chief.

UK outsourcer and public sector specialist Capita expects to incur "exceptional costs" in the region of £15m to £20m as a result of the March 2023 Black Basta ransomware attack on its systems, which saw clients left unable to provide vital public services for days, and has resulted in a major breach of customer data, including information held by pensions providers.

in brief We'd say you'll never guess which telco admitted to a security breakdown last week, but you totally will: T-Mobile US, and for the second time (so far) this year.For those counting, this also makes the seventh incident in five years at the cellular provider - though this one is small compared to the 37 million subscribers whose data leaked in January.

A cancer patient whose nude treatment photos and medical records were posted online after they were stolen in a ransomware attack, has sued the health-care provider for allowing a "preventable" and "seriously damaging" invident.The proposed class-action lawsuit stems from a February intrusion during which ransomware gang BlackCat (also known as ALPHV) broke into one of the Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) physician's networks, stole images of patients undergoing radiation oncology treatment along with other sensitive health records belonging to more than 75,000 people, and then demanded a ransom payment to decrypt the files and prevent it from posting the health data online.

Healthcare solutions provider NextGen Healthcare has started informing roughly one million individuals that their personal information was compromised in a data breach.Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company makes and sells electronic health records software and provides doctors and medical professionals with practice management services.

A $1.1 million payment was made to resolve a ransomware attack on a California county's law enforcement computer network, Southern California News Group reported.The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department announced in April that a "network disruption" was being investigated by information technology staff and forensic specialists, and that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security were notified.

OAKLAND Numerous city workers received alerts this month confirming the worst: strangers were attempting to open lines of credit on their accounts, using social security numbers hacked from the city during a ransomware attack that began Feb 8. It's a nightmare no one would want to experience, but Oakland's union leaders are just as concerned about the messages they say workers aren't getting from city leaders who have yet to offer a pathway out of the ongoing mess.

Italian sports car maker Ferrari said on Monday that a threat actor had demanded a ransom related to customer contact details that may have been exposed in a ransomware attack."Upon receipt of the ransom demand, we immediately started an investigation in collaboration with a leading global third-party cybersecurity firm," the iconic car maker said.