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Allscripts Faces Lawsuit Due to Ransomware Infection

Kayla Elliott / January 29, 2018

Ransomware Infection May Cost Allscripts Big Money… Allscripts, a company that provides electronic record systems for medical facilities was hit with a ransomware infection earlier this month. The ransomware attack impacted several medical locations throughout the U.S., leaving them without access to their electronic data. The severity of the impact for each facility remains unknown. […]

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Ohio Physicians Clinic Shuts Down After Ransomware Attack

Kayla Elliott / January 25, 2018

Ransomware Leaves Ohio Clinic Inoperable We’ve heard of ransomware infections infecting hospitals and clinics. We’ve also heard that at times patients have been sent away because some of the more sophisticated procedures could not be done. Now, a medical clinic in northeastern Ohio has been completely shut down due to a ransomware attack. Pulmonary Physicians

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Fake Crytpo-Currency, Ransomware & Malware in One Attack

Kayla Elliott / January 23, 2018

New “Get Rich Quick” Scheme Leads to Ransomware A new scam is luring people into downloading ransomware. The scheme is targeting crypto-wallet users, and could also be spreading through phishing attacks. The scam is encouraging users to download a new form of crypto-currency that is bound to make them buku bucks. The fake crypto-currency, SpriteCoin,

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Ransomware Attacks of 2018

Kayla Elliott / January 23, 2018

Ransomware has become rather well known in the cyber security industry over the last two years. It is projected there were $5 billion dollars worth of ransomware damages in 2017, and that number is only expected to increase in 2018. Below you will find a list of the publicized ransomware attacks of 2018. If you’re

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Ransomware Infects New Mexico City Office

Kayla Elliott / January 18, 2018

Ransomware Attack Targets New Mexico City Office On January 3, 2018, the ransomware variant, SamSam, infected the city offices of Farmington, New Mexico. The ransomware infection successfully encrypted multiple areas of the city office including the electronic bill pay and records processing. Although, the infection did not impact utility operations and the city office has

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Indiana Hospital Resorts to Paper Filing After Ransomware Takes Down Systems

Kayla Elliott / January 15, 2018

Update, 1/16/2018: Hancock Regional Hospital ended up paying the ransom demand of $55,000. Officials are still reporting patient data was not breached. Officials did report the 1,400 files that were ecrypted were backed up, and could have been replaced. Although, they believed it would be more cost effective to pay the ransom demands to regain

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Ransomware Infects South Dakota City Hall

Kayla Elliott / January 11, 2018

Cyber Attack Hits South Dakota Town The first publicized ransomware attack appears to have taken place in the small town of Belle Fourche, South Dakota. On January 4th, officials reported two of Belle Fourche’s city hall computers were inoperable after ransomware had infiltrated the system. Neither the ransomware variant, nor the ransom demands have been

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Dartmouth College Hit With Ransomware Attack

Kayla Elliott / January 8, 2018

Cyber Criminals Target College in Ransomware Attack On December 18, 2017 Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, was the victim of a cyber attack. Officials noticed unauthorized activity, and determined there was a virus on their systems. It was determined the virus was designed to encrypt files. Although, the encryption was not able to

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Ransomware Attack Impacts Nebraska Eye Clinic

Kayla Elliott / December 28, 2017

Nebraska Eye Clinic Releases Statement Regarding Ransomware Infection Eye Physicians, P.C., located in Columbus, Nebraska was the victim of a ransomware attack in October. The ransomware variant infiltrated the facilities systems, encrypting files on some of its servers. Eye Physicians, P.C. was able to restore all encrypted files with their backup files. The organization made

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Colorado Medical Practice Suffers Ransomware and Potential Breach

Kayla Elliott / December 28, 2017

Longs Peak Family Practice in Colorado Suffers Cyber Attacks Longs Peak Family Practice in Longmont, Colorado suffered a ransomware attack in early November. According to their public statement, the facility did not pay the ransom. Instead they were able to remediate the encrypted files using backups. A few days after the ransomware attack, the IT

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