Chinese distributors reportedly dump dud chips on Russia

Chinese distributors reportedly dump dud chips on Russia

The failure rate of semiconductors shipped from China to Russia has increased by 1,900 percent in recent months, according to Russian national business daily Коммерсантъ (Kommersant). Quoting an anonymous source, Kommersant states that before Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine the defect rate in imported silicon was two percent. Since that war commenced, Russian manufacturers have…
Law enforcement investigating ransomware attack that took down some MercyOne

Law enforcement investigating ransomware attack that took down some MercyOne

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Law enforcement investigating ransomware attack that took down some MercyOne

Law enforcement investigating ransomware attack that took down some MercyOne

INFORMATION. HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND MERCY ONES NETWORK ARE STILL STRUGGLING WITH A RANSOM WHERE ATTACK THAT TOOK DOWN SOME COMPUTER SYSTEMS, ONLINE SCHEDULING AND OTHER PROCESSES ARE STILL SHUT DOWN. MERCY ONES. FORMER PARENT COMPANY COMMON SPIRIT SAYS IT IS NOW WORKING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS TO FIX THE PROBLEM. THE ATTACK…
Australian Insurer Medibank Says Incident Was Ransomware

Australian Insurer Medibank Says Incident Was Ransomware

Finance & Banking , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo-Specific Apparent Spate of Australian Data Breaches Continues Mihir Bagwe (MihirBagwe) • October 17, 2022     Image: ShutterstockAustralian insurer Medibank says the cybersecurity incident on Wednesday that caused it to suspend stock trading and take public-facing systems offline was likely a ransomware attack.See Also: New…
Microsoft Says Ukraine, Poland Hit By Novel Ransomware

Microsoft Says Ukraine, Poland Hit By Novel Ransomware

By Ben Kochman (October 17, 2022, 8:11 PM EDT) -- Transportation and logistics companies in Ukraine and Poland were hit with a novel form of ransomware earlier this month that bears similarities with past attacks attributed to Russian intelligence, according to Microsoft.... Stay ahead of the curve In the legal profession, information is the key…
Remote desktop services targeted by devious ransomware

Remote desktop services targeted by devious ransomware

Publicly exposed Remote Desktop services are being abused to deploy new ransomware onto target endpoints, researchers are saying. A cybersecurity researcher going by the name linuxct recently reached out to MalwareHunterTeam to try and learn more about a ransomware strain they discovered called Venus. The team later found that the ransomware operators had been active since mid-August…
Enlighten Designs confirms May ransomware hack

Enlighten Designs confirms May ransomware hack

Damon Kelly (Enlighten Designs) Credit: Supplied Waikato-based website and software developer Enlighten Designs has confirmed it was the subject of a ransomware attack in May this year.CEO Damon Kelly confirmed the attack to Reseller News, saying it had infected a portion of the company's operating systems."The company appointed a forensic technology consultant to investigate the incident,…