May 4, 2023

Avos ransomware gang hijacks university alert system to issue threats

On Sunday 30th of April 2023, Bluefield University disclosed that the university had suffered a cyberattack that impacted the IT systems, causing all examinations to be postponed. However, at that time it had claimed that its investigation had found no evidence of any cases of financial fraud or identity theft linked to the incident. Although on Monday 1st of May […]
May 3, 2023

Cl0p ransomware attack impacts 783k Brightline patients

This week, Brightline, a pediatric mental health provider released a data notice warning patients that it suffered a data breach impacting 783,606 people following a cyberattack by the Cl0p ransomware gang. It is believed that the ransomware gang used a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-0669) in its Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing platform to steal the data from 130 organisations including Brightline. […]
April 24, 2023

Black Basta claims responsibility for a cyberattack against Yellow Pages Group

Last week, the Black Basta ransomware gang claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against the Yellow Pages Group, a Canadian directory publisher and posted a sample of sensitive documents and data. The posted sample included the following documents: ID documents (such as scans of passports and driver’s licenses) exposing people’s date of birth and address. Tax documents—exposing Social Insurance Number (SIN) Sales and […]
April 16, 2023

Mac ransomware encryptors linked to LockBit founded

This week, it was discovered that the LockBit ransomware gang has created encryptors targeting Macs and it was confirmed by the public-facing representative of LockBit, known as LockBitSupp, that the Mac encryptor is “actively being developed”. The new ransomware encryptor was discovered by cybersecurity researchers MalwareHunterTeam and Florian Roth. An analysis of the Apple M1 encryptor revealed that parts of the encryptor were […]
April 15, 2023

BlackCat ransomware claims responsibility for the outage of NCR’s Aloha POS

On Saturday 15th of April 2023, the American software and technology consulting company NCR disclosed that they had suffered an outage since Wednesday at their data centers after being hit by a ransomware attack. The outage resulted in its Aloha point of sale platform being unavailable for its customers to utilize the system. NCR stated that they launched an investigation […]
February 23, 2023

Dole Fruit giant impacted by a ransomware attack

On Wednesday 22nd of February 2023, one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of fresh fruit and vegetables, Dole Food company announced that they have suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted their operations that have involved them being forced to shut down its production plants in North America and have halted its shipments to grocery stores. They stated in […]
February 10, 2023

3.3 million patients were impacted by a data breach from a ransomware attack on Heritage Provider Network

On Friday 10th of February 2023, the Heritage Provider Network in California confirmed that multiple medical groups within the network suffered a ransomware attack which exposed the data of 3,300,638 patients. In the data breach notification on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services breach portal, the Heritage Provider Network stated that the ransomware attack occurred on Thursday 1st […]
February 10, 2023

The City of Oakland confirms systems are offline after a ransomware attack

On Wednesday 8th of February 2023, the local government of the City of Oakland was hit by a ransomware attack that resulted in them having to take all systems offline until the network is secured and affected services are brought back online. Even though they had to take all systems offline, the city has confirmed that the attack has not […]
December 30, 2022

Ransomware attack shuts down mill of Canadian mining firm

Late on Tuesday 27th of December 2022, The Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) in British Columbia experienced a cyberattack that resulted in the CMMC’s engineers decided to shut down the mill as a preventative measure to determine the status of its control system, while other processes switched to manual operations. “The Company’s external and internal IT teams are continuing […]
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