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A ransomware attack on a laboratory based in Florida has exposed the personal health information (PHI) of more than 30,000 patients.  Nationwide Laboratory Services, which is based in Boca Raton, identified suspicious activity on its network on May 19, 2021. An examination of the activity revealed that attackers had used ransomware to encrypt files across the healthcare provider’s network, making their contents inaccessible.  The lab hired a third-party cybersecurity firm to investigate the attack and…

VMworld 2021 was full of incredible content across our general sessions, technical demos, and hands-on labs. Among the highlights were our customer conversations, in which we learned how organizations around the globe are leveraging VMware technologies to reach unprecedented heights.  We heard from Josef Schmid, Group IT infrastructure manager at SGB-SMIT, on the organization’s journey to the cloud and data center modernization. SGB-SMIT is a power transformer manufacturer headquartered in Regensburg, Germany, with 13 locations around the world. The challenge for the IT team at SGB-SMIT was the need to quickly scale data and processes…

The $10 million is for intel that leads to the identification or location of anyone who holds a leadership position in the DarkSide group. Image: Shutterstock/Vchal Any bounty hunters out there could potentially score a cool $10 million if they help the US government snag one of the leaders of the DarkSide ransomware gang. On Thursday, the US State Department announced the new bounty, offering the money for any information that helps to identify or…

Almost one in three (32%) workers are being monitored at work by their employers, according to a new survey of 2424 UK workers by the union Prospect.. This represents a substantial rise from April 2021, when 24% of employees reported being subjected to monitoring at work, sparking privacy and intrusion concerns. This rise has partially been driven by a significant uptick in home workers being monitored by cameras over this period, up from 6% in…

Impersonating an Amazon order notification, the attackers end up calling victims to try to obtain their credit card details, says Avanan. Image: iStock/OrnRin As the holidays approach, cybercriminals will be pulling the usual stunts to take advantage of the season. That means we can expect scams that exploit retailers such as Amazon. A recent campaign spotted by email security provider Avanan spoofs Amazon with both a traditional phishing message and a voice call to try to…

While Halloween 2021 is a few days past, Wendy Nather, head of advisory CISOs at Cisco, still sees many “dark” things on the infosec landscape. In a keynote session at the SecTor security conference on November 4, Nather outlined various potential concerns facing IT security professionals now and likely for years into the future. The infosec concerns for Nather have in no small part been accelerated by the pandemic, as employees were predominantly working remotely…

Fraud and computer misuse offenses rose by 43% in the year ending June 2021 compared with the pre-COVID year ending June 2019, according to estimates from the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW). Published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the figures further demonstrated the extent to which crime shifted to the digital space during COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the UK. There was an estimated 14% decline in total crime excluding computer…

The US State Department has offered $10m to anyone able to help reveal the identity or location of “leaders” of the DarkSide ransomware group. In a first for the government, the department also said it would offer $5m for information “leading to the arrest and/or conviction in any country of any individual conspiring to participate in or attempting to participate in a DarkSide variant ransomware incident.” The group most famously was responsible for the Colonial…