The Akira ransomware group has set its sights on yet another target: the municipality of Bjuv in Skåne County, South Sweden. The notorious hacker group, known for its brazen cyberattacks against Swedish entities, has issued a warning on the dark web, threatening to leak nearly 200GB of stolen data from Bjuv Municipality’s systems. The ransomware […]
CNN — An ongoing cyberattack against Georgia’s Fulton County, which includes parts of Atlanta, has brought some of the government’s systems to a standstill, halting access to court filings, tax processing and other services. The outage has not been resolved, and it’s unclear when systems would return to normal. The office of the county’s District […]
The housing authority in California’s San Bernardino County notified nearly 19,000 people this week that their information was compromised in a June cyberattack. The organization said names and Social Security numbers were leaked after hackers accessed an employee email account on June 19. “Upon discovery, we immediately performed a password reset for the affected account […]
A cyberattack on a North Carolina county has forced officials to call in the state’s national guard for assistance. In a message to residents on Tuesday, Bladen County said it became the victims of a cyberattack last week. The county — tucked in the southern point of the state about an hour away from Wilmington […]
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response Cook County Health Says It Is Among the Vendor’s ‘Many’ Clients Affected by Hack Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • November 8, 2023 Image: Getty A major healthcare provider in Chicago that targets underserved populations is notifying as many as 1.2 million patients […]
Dallas County is in the process of reviewing information leaked by a ransomware gang claiming to have attacked the county last month. In a statement, Dallas County Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins told Recorded Future News that county officials are aware that the ransomware gang that claimed the attack on their systems has posted purportedly stolen […]
A Cyber Breach Delays Poll Worker Training in Mississippi’s Largest County Before the Statewide Vote
Election officials in Mississippi’s most populous county had to scramble to complete required poll worker training after an early September breach involving county computers. In Hinds County, such training is typically completed by early October before a November general election, according to Election Commissioner Shirley Varnado. Instead, office staff members worked right up to Thursday’s […]
Dallas County provided an update on the ransomware attack that was reported this week, telling residents that they were able to stop the incident before the hackers could encrypt files or systems. On Monday, the county of nearly 3 million residents confirmed it was dealing with a cybersecurity incident after the Play ransomware gang claimed […]
Dallas County experienced a cybersecurity incident this month that affected parts of its network, an official confirmed on Monday. In a statement to Recorded Future News, Dallas County Judge Clay Lewis Jenkins said that there is an ongoing investigation into the incident following claims by a ransomware gang that emerged over the weekend. “On October […]
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