Major breaches at two medical service providers are sending shockwaves throughout the industry. A new email security report from Graphus shows massive cybercrime increases. Plus, government entities around the world have another bad week and a look at how to protect your clients from ransomware attacks targeting infrastructure like this week’s Colonial Pipeline disaster including who should be beefing up security to stay safe from cybercrime.
United States – MedNetwoRX
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/reported-ransomware-attack-leads-weeks-aprima-ehr-outages
Exploit: Ransomware
MedNetwoRX: Medical Information Processing
Risk to Business: 1.607= Severe
A reported ransomware attack on MedNetwoRX has impeded medical providers’ access to their Aprima electronic health record systems for more than two weeks. This hack impacts medical practices, clinics and hospitals of all sizes, from solo providers to conglomerates that rely on MedNetworx to host the Aprima electronic medical records system from vendor CompuGroup eMDs. MedNetworx says that on April 22, it experienced a network outage that resulted in a temporary disruption to its servers and other IT systems. Two major clients, Arthritis & Osteoporosis Center of Kentucky, the Alpine Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, have been identified as victims as well as many small single and partner practices. The incident is under investigation and some functionality has been restored.
Individual Impact: No sensitive personal or financial information was confirmed as compromised in this incident, but the investigation is ongoing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How It Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: This is the kind of third-party service provider incident that reverberates for months as rolling damage becomes apparent. With no clear word on what if any data was stolen, your clients could be waiting for a nasty surprise.
United States – City of Tulsa
https://therecord.media/city-of-tulsa-hit-by-ransomware-over-the-weekend/
Exploit: Ransomware
City of Tulsa: Municipality
Risk to Business: 1.722= Severe
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been hit by a ransomware attack that affected the city government’s network and brought down official websites. The attack, which took place on the night between Friday and Saturday, is under investigation and city IT crews have begun restoring functionality and data from backups. This follows a string of ransomware attacks on other US municipalities in recent weeks. City officials were careful to note that no customer information has been compromised, but residents will see delays in-network services. While emergency response is not hampered, 311, some credit card payment systems and the city’s new online utility billing system were impacted.
Individual Impact: No sensitive personal or financial information was confirmed as compromised in this incident, but the investigation is ongoing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business Ransomware has been an especially nasty foe for government entities, especially cities and towns. Cybercriminals know that these targets are likely to pay ransoms and unlikely to have strong security or security awareness training in place.
United States – Fermilab
https://www.govinfosecurity.com/us-physics-laboratory-exposed-documents-credentials-a-16536
Exploit: Credential Compromise
Fermilab: Research Laboratory
Risk to Business: 1.523 = Severe
The Fermilab physics laboratory has taken action to lock down its systems after security researchers found weaknesses exposing documents, proprietary applications, personal information, project details and credentials. Fermilab, which is part of the US Department of Energy, is a world-famous particle accelerator and physics laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. One database the researchers discovered allowed unauthenticated access to 5,795 documents and 53,685 file entries. One entry point led into Fermilab’s IT ticketing system, which displayed 4,500 trouble tickets. Also found was an FTP server that required no password and allowed anyone to log in anonymously. Other impacted systems exposed credentials, experiment data and other proprietary information that were stored with no security.
Individual Impact: No sensitive personal or financial information was confirmed as compromised in this incident, but the investigation is ongoing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Proprietary data needs to be stored securely. Not only does it give your competition an edge if they can see what you’re doing, but it also gives cybercriminals an edge when they’re crafting a cyberattack against your company.
United States – BlueForce Inc.
Exploit: Ransomware
BlueForce: Defense Contractor
Risk to Business: 1.668 = Severe
Someone who runs training programs may need to upgrade their security awareness training. Defense contractor BlueForce has been hit by the Conti ransomware group. The gang posted data from the operation on its leak site along with supposed chat records from its negotiation with BlueForce. The Conti gang has demanded 17 bitcoin for the decryption key. BlueForce is a Virginia-based defense veteran-owned contractor that works with the US Department of Defense and the US Department of State on program management, training and development initiatives.
Individual Impact: No sensitive personal or financial information was confirmed as compromised in this incident, but the investigation is ongoing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Increased security awareness training makes organizations up to 70% less likely to experience damaging cybersecurity incidents like this one.
United States – CaptureRX
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/capturerx-data-breach-impacts/
Exploit: Ransomware
CaptureRX: Medical Software Company
Risk to Business: 1.907 = Severe
Texas-based CaptureRx, fell victim to a ransomware attack in which cybercriminals snatched files containing the personal health information (PHI) of more than 24,000 individuals. The security breach impacted 17,655 patients of Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare and a further 6,777 patients at Gifford Health Care as well as an indeterminate number of Thrifty Drug Store patients. CaptureRx is currently unclear how many of its healthcare provider clients have been affected by the attack. Nor has the company finished its final tally of how many individuals had their PHI exposed because of the incident.
Risk to Business: 1.959 = Severe
Data exposed and stolen by the ransomware attackers included names, dates of birth, prescription information, and, for a limited number of patients, medical record numbers. Affected healthcare provider clients were notified of the incident by CaptureRx between March 30 and April 7.
Customers Impacted: 24K +
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: The medical sector has been absolutely battered by ransomware in the last 12 months. Breaches at service providers like this and Accellion show that cybercriminals are playing smart by hitting targets that offer them access to a variety of information that has value for future attacks.
United States – Alaska Court System (ACS)
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/551463-alaska-court-system-forced-offline-by-cyberattack
Exploit: Ransomware
Alaska Court System: Judicial Body
Risk to Business: 1.572 = Severe
The Alaska Court System (ACS) was forced to temporarily disconnect its online servers this week due to a cyberattack that installed malware on their systems, disrupting virtual court hearings. The court’s website had been taken offline and the ability to search court cases had been suspended while it worked to remove malware that had been installed on its servers. Activities that may be impacted by the ACS taking its website offline include the ability of the public to view court hearings over Zoom, online bail payments, submitting juror questionnaires and sending or receiving emails to or from an ACS email address.
Individual Impact: No sensitive personal or financial information was announced as compromised in this incident, but the investigation is ongoing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Ransomware is the weapon of choice for cybercrime especially against local, state and municipal governments with often weak or outmoded IT departments.
Australia – NSW Labor Party
Exploit: Ransomware
NSW Labor Party: Political Organization
Risk to Business: 2.109 = Severe
The ransomware group Avaddon is threatening to release a trove of sensitive information including images of passports, driver’s licenses and employment contracts from a ransomware hit on the NSW Labor Party. The cybercriminals have demanded a response to its ransom request within 240 hours and threatened to launch a denial of service attack against the party if it did not pay. NSW Police has come on board in the investigation.
Individual Impact: No sensitive personal or financial information was announced as compromised in this incident, but the investigation is ongoing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Ransomware is the modern cybercriminal’s weapon of choice. Make sure your clients are taking every possible precaution because 61% of organizations worldwide experienced a damaging ransomware incident in 2020.
Australia – Schepisi Communications
Exploit: Hacking
Schepisi Communications: Cloud Storage
Risk to Business: 2.307 = Severe
Melbourne-based Schepisi Communications has been the victim of a suspected ransomware attack. The company’s website has been offline for days after a hacker group said it infiltrated the company’s data systems and posted a disturbing ransom note on the dark web. The company is a service provider for Telstra that supplies phone numbers and cloud storage services. Among Schepisi’s other customers that appeared to have had their information exposed were global food conglomerate Nestle, a Melbourne radio station, an Australian property management firm, and a financial services company based in Victoria.
Individual Impact: No sensitive personal or financial information was announced as compromised in this incident, but the investigation is ongoing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Malware and ransomware have been the plague of increasingly beleaguered service providers. Every organization in the sector should step up phishing resistance training to reduce the chance of falling prey to an attack.
India – WedMeGood
https://www.hackread.com/shinyhunters-leak-india-wedmegood-database/
Exploit: Hacking
WedMeGood: Wedding Planning
Risk to Business: 1.817 = Severe
Legendary cybercrime gang ShinyHunters has dumped a database belonging to WedMeGood, a popular Indian wedding planning platform. WedMeGood is yet to verify the data breach, but dark web analysts say that the database contains 41.5 GB worth of data. Lately, the hacking group has been focusing on leaking databases of Indian entities.
Risk to Business: 1.773 = Severe
Impacted users have had PII exposed including full names, city, gender, phone numbers, email addresses, password hashes, booking leads, last login date, account creation date, Facebook unique ID numbers, vacation descriptions for Airbnb and other wedding details. Site users will want to be aware of the potential of spear-phishing attacks using this data.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: ransomware attacks have been especially prevalent against targets in India recently, with hits on other major companies like BigBasket and Dr. Reddy’s. Every organization in the sector should step up phishing resistance training to reduce the chance of falling prey to an attack.
1 – 1.5 = Extreme Risk
1.51 – 2.49 = Severe Risk
2.5 – 3 = Moderate Risk
Risk scores for The Week in Breach are calculated using a formula that considers a wide range of factors related to the assessed breach.
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