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McLaren Health Care restores network weeks after ransomware attack

McLaren Health Care is fully operational weeks after a ransomware attack disrupted its information technology systems, the Grand Blanc, Michigan-based operator said Tuesday. The restoration was completed days ahead of schedule. McLaren previously estimated IT disruptions would last through August. Though providers at McLaren’s hospitals, cancer centers and clinics have access to the system’s electronic health record, it could […]

CCTV zero-day exposes critical infrastructure to Mirai botnet

Industrial control systems and critical infrastructure operators are being warned about a campaign leveraging a known zero-day vulnerability in remote monitoring cameras to spread Mirai cryptominer botnets. Researchers at Akamai found the Mirai cryptominer botnet campaign was exploiting a variety of previously disclosed vulnerabilities, but was notably focused on a zero-day command injection vulnerability in AVTECH closed-circuit […]

Seattle airport confronts 4th day of cyberattack outages

Widespread system outages dragged into the fourth day at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the wake of a cyberattack that began disrupting services at the Port of Seattle, which operates the airport, Saturday morning. Most flights are departing and arriving as scheduled, cruise ship operations are operating as normal, and security checkpoints and systems are not impacted, officials said in media […]

Federal watchdog urges EPA to develop comprehensive cyber strategy to protect water systems

The congressional watchdog is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to urgently develop a strategy to address the rising risk of malicious cyber activity targeting the nation’s drinking and wastewater, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office released last week. In recent months, the sector has been up against heightened threat activity from state-linked and […]

CrowdStrike snafu was a ‘dress rehearsal’ for critical infrastructure disruptions, CISA director says

LAS VEGAS — For Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly the doomed CrowdStrike software update that took global IT systems and networks offline last month holds a “big lesson” for critical infrastructure. “The CrowdStrike incident was such a terrible incident,” Easterly said Wednesday during a media briefing at Black Hat, but “it was a useful […]
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