Samsam Ransomware Infected Thousands of LabCorp Systems Via Brute Force RDP

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LabCorp contained the attack within 50 minutes, says they’re at about 90-percent operational capacity It’s all over the news. Steve Ragan at CSO has the best “executive summary”: The Samsam ransomware attack on Labcorp, one of the largest clinical labs int he US, forced their systems offline, however they were able to contain the spread and prevent a data breech. In between detection and mitigation, thousands of systems and several hundred production servers where encrypted by the the ransomware. LabCorp disclosed the ransomware infection via an 8-K filing with the SEC, at which time the greater community began to hear about the infection on Monday. As recovery efforts continue, the…

Bank’s 9,500+ Systems BRICKED to Hide Stealing 10 Million Dollars Via SWIFT

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Banco De Chile (BDC)—that country’s largest financial institution— was victim to a cyber-attack that bricked a shocking 9,000 workstations and 500 servers. After the attackers bricked the devices they began covertly hide illegal transactions on the SWIFT network worth approximately $10million dollars and funneled off to international accounts in Hong Kong. Eduardo Ebensperger, BDC’s general manager on Sunday, told Chilean media outlet Pulso that the late-May attack allowed the attackers to complete four separate fraudulent transactions before the cyber-heist was discovered. This wiper-attack caused massive downtime caused will result in damaged more than the $10 million that was stolen. The bank had to halt all of its operations at its…