SPAMfighter News 2019/4/30

Greenville City still working to restore things to normal following a Ransomware Attack

No one is still able to use the city computers in the Greenville following a cyber attack on April 10, 2019. Also, if anyone tries to open the city

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/30

Emotet Malware possibly exfiltrated PHI of patients in Oregon Endodontic Group

Oregon Endodontic Group discovered that malware got installed in an office computer, thus potentially exporting data contained in office's email

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/29

Treasurer of Ottawa City fall prey to a Phishing Scam

The treasurer of Ottawa City fall prey to an increasingly widespread cyber attack form last year (i.e. in 2018), thus costing Ottawa City roughly

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/29

Stuart City in Florida is still recovering from Ransomware attack

The City of Stuart is yet to fully recover from the ransomware virus attack that struck the city on April 13, 2019, said David Dyess, the city

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/29

Personalized phishing assaults target government agency, embassy officials of several nations

A cyber-attack scheme lately used TeamViewer in a weaponized form along with malicious software masked as one highly confidential document of US

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/26

Women’s Health USA impacted by a phishing attack

Women's Health USA disclosed that a phishing attack, which started in Apr. 2018 and then again occurred in August 2018, has targeted their

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/26

The hero in WannaCry halt admits responsibility in Kronos malware

Marcus Hutchins, who claims a Twitter handle MalwareTech, recently admitted inside one U.S court that he created and spread malicious software. A

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/25

Website of PetroBangla gets hacked twice within 2 Days

The Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation's official website (i.e. PetroBangla) was hacked initially on Apr. 7, 2019. After hacking the

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/25

Mexican Embassy loses thousands of documents in a devastating hack

The Mexican embassy stationed at Guatemala suffered a hack, current week, when it lost several thousand documents consisting of its classified

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/25

INR 33 lakh hacked from State Bank of Mauritius

Almost six months after INR 147 crore has been transferred by the hackers from Nariman Point branch of State Bank of Mauritius, the police stated

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/24

Top IT companies in India at peril from cyber attacks

KrebsOnSecurity the cyber-security blog has posted that cyber-attackers possibly hacked Cognizant, Capgemini and Infosys the big IT companies for

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/24

Cyberattack on Kentucky’s Hardin Memorial Health led to EHR Downtime

A cyberattack on Kentucky's Hardin Memorial Health (HMH) led to disruption of its IT systems as well as EHR downtime.

The cyberattack

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/23

New Chrome exploit allows eGobbler threat group serve malvertisements on iOS devices

According to cyber-security company Confiant, which works for tracing down malvertising campaigns, one fresh exploit, a creation of eGobbler, lets

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/23

Michigan’s Brookside ENT and Hearing Center forced to close due to a Ransomware Attack

The system at Michigan's Brookside ENT and Hearing Center, which housed the patient records, payment information and appointment schedules, was

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/23

14,305 Patients impacted as a result of a phishing attack on the Main Line Endoscopy Centers

Main Line Endoscopy Centers, an outpatient endoscopy clinics network in the Bala Cynwyd, Media, and Malvern regions of Pennsylvania, has recently

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/22

Georgia Tech suffered Data Breach leaving 1.3 Million Exposed

Georgia Tech confirmed that it has suffered from data breach when web app of a Georgia Institute of Technology exposed information of 1.3 million

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/20

RatVermin info-gathering malware hits Ukraine government, military

A spear-phishing campaign is on the run, so have researchers found, and it targets the military as well as government of Ukraine by dispatching

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/20

Southern Hills Eye Care impacted by a Ransomware Attack

Located in the Sioux City, Iowa, Southern Hills Eye Care experienced one security incident which might have resulted in exposure of personal and

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/19

Romanian duo indicted over developing and distributing malware, contaminating 400K PCs

An Ohio federal jury convicted Radu Miclaus, aged 37, and Bogdan Nicolescu, aged 36, for allegedly creating malicious software and distributing it

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/19

Phishing Attack on DePaul impacted emails of Health Program Clients

DePaul, the provider of healthcare services as well as assisted living facilities in New York, South Carolina, and North Carolina, is impacted by a

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/19

Microsoft encounters infiltration into some A/Cs on its Outlook.com

Microsoft is notifying certain account owners of its Outlook.com about one hacking attempt that resulted in the compromise of their accounts over a

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/18

TajMahal discovered in extremely treacherous cyber-espionage scheme

One just unearthed malware program put in operation in an extremely treacherous cyber-espionage scheme features many fresh malicious

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/18

Credit Card data compromised after installing malware on PoS systems

A Point-of-Sale (PoS) data breach exposed more than 2 million debit and credit cards that belongs to the diners at Earl Enterprises. Earl

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/17

Garfield County succumbs to ransomware attack

A ransomware assault struck the computer systems of Garfield County leading to their collapse over weeks together prior to the County surrendering

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/17

Alwar’s Raj Rishi Bhartrihari Matsya University website was hacked

Raj Rishi Bhartrihari Matsya University website was allegedly hacked on the morning of April 2, 2019. The university was previously known as Matsya

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/16

UK man running worldwide ransomware scheme sentenced to 6-yrs imprisonment

A man, aged 24, residing inside England ran one ransomware scheme attacking multi-million PCs in 20 countries that got him sentenced to over 6-yrs

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/16

Patients of SDC informed about PHI Exposure due to Email Account Hacking of an Employee

Members of the Superior Dental Care (SDC) are getting notified by SDC about a hack on their employee email account, which possibly breaches their

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/16

Navicent Health reported Data Breach due to a cyberattack

The second-largest hospital of Georgia, Navicent Health, is notifying their patients that some of their PHI (Protected Health Information) was

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/15

New spying software targets iOS and Android smart-phones

Security researchers have found one spying scheme, which targets smart-phones, while backed with a good amount of fund it clandestinely steals

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/15

Hospice patients of FRHS impacted by Email Breach

Frederick Regional Health System (FRHS), based in Frederick city of Maryland, is notifying hospice patients about a possible data breach, after it

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/12

Cyber-criminals gang uses US-based Web-servers, hosts and distributes malware

Bromium a virtualization company in its recent investigation found that cyber-criminals were using USA situated Web-servers for hosting as well as

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/12

Over 350,000 individuals affected by Phishing Attack in Oregon DHS

ODHS (Oregon Department of Human Services) fall prey to a phishing attack, thus possibly allowing unauthorized individuals to obtain or view

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/12

North Carolina man pleaded guilty in 'Tech Support' Scam of over $3 million

A man from city of Charlotte, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in the federal court on Wednesday (i.e. on March 20, 2019) for doing conspiracy to

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/11

Bayer the chemicals giant of Germany reports of cyber assault in 2018

Bayer a renowned chemical company of Germany reports detecting and turning away an Internet attack targeted on it in 2018 by one hackers' syndicate

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/10

Shut down of Internet in Lynn schools because of a Computer Virus

The schools of Lynn go to working style of 20 years back due to widespread computer virus that has left staffers and students with no internet

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/10

Arizona Beverages falls prey to massive ransomware attack

A major beverage supplier Arizona Beverages operating inside USA is reportedly recovering following an extensive ransomware assault in March 2019,

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/9

Student hacks Teacher’s work account to create hit list

Police said that they are investigating a case in which hit list (as called by Police) of students was created, and a boy aged 13 is the suspect. As

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/9

Pastor sends to prison for insider trading

A former hedge fund manager of U.S., who has also worked as pastor, was send to prison for five years on Thursday (i.e. on March 21, 2019) due to

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/9

Lithuanian man pleads guilty to trick Google and Facebook

A Lithuanian man named Evaldas Rimasauskas, aged 50, admitted that he helped to trick Google and Facebook into sending S$163 million (US$ 121

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/8

Beware of Christchurch tragedy-related online attacks and scams

Opportunistic actors are looking to make quick profit from Christchurch tragic events that happened in March this year, by engaging in the online

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/6

PHI of patients at Verity Health System exposed

Protected Health Information (PHI) of patients at Verity Health System has been exposed and possibly compromised in a phishing attack on 2016, then

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/6

Albany City latest victim of ransomware

According to a confirmation dated March 30 by Albany City, certain ransomware attack hit the city impacting computers of the municipal government. A

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/5

Hacker admits breaking into celebrity musicians’ and athletes’ Apple accounts

Georgia hacker, 27-yr-old Kwamaine Jerell Ford, whom authorities found breaking into professional athletes' as also musicians' Apple accounts,

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/5

Cyber-criminal gang procures massive consumer data, defrauds online shoppers off INR 200 crore

The Special Task Force of Uttar Police police confirmed March 31 after capturing a cyber-criminal gang's chief operator that the gang had garnered a

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/4

Three persons arrested by Police for hacking of a J&K person’s Facebook Account

Three persons that include a couple from Jaipur, Rajasthan, were allegedly arrested for hacking a Facebook account, as well as for posting obscene

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/4

Security investigator admits he hacked Nintendo, Microsoft

A security investigator, aged 24, who was employed at the security firm Malwarebytes, faced arrest, but narrowly bypassed prison after he allegedly

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/3

Three ransomware attacks on Healthcare Organizations

Recently, healthcare companies as well as their business associates reported three ransomware attacks. Attacks on the Delaware Guidance Services (DGS)

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/3

Recent Council Tax Scam - fraudsters targeting the innocents

In a recent council tax scam, the fraudsters are targeting the people saying that they owed a refund. These fraudsters in an email targets the

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/2

Phishing scam using the names of church pastors’ as bait

An email phishing scam, which was not new, targeted at the church-goers have been picked up again. The scam this time is trying to target new

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/2

Phishing campaign targeting the Instagram users

The new phishing campaign is targeting the Instagram users by using the fake copyright notices of infringement in order to steal the user

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/2

Microsoft seizes 99 websites being leveraged for spear-phishing and hacking assaults

Microsoft is presently positioned to gain hold over an attackers' gang called APT35 or Phosphorus, which was carrying out spear-phishing and hacking

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/1

Server Hack of Pasquotank-Camden EMS impacts 40,000 Patients

PCEMS (Pasquotank-Camden Emergency Medical Services) of North Carolina has discovered that hackers have infiltrated the server that housed their

SPAMfighter News 2019/4/1

Google Maps page of a Private Coaching Institute in New Panvel hacked

A case has been registered with Khandeshwar police by Geeta Joshi, director of a private coaching institute in New Panvel.

The case