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Canadian insurer paid for ransomware decryptor. Now it's hunting the scum down
2020-01-29 15:31

A Canadian insurance business struck by ransomware paid off the crooks via a cyber insurance policy - and their English reinsurers, having shelled out 109.25 Bitcoins, want it back from the alleged blackmailers. After infection the unnamed Canadian company suffered a total lockdown of all of its systems and asked its reinsurance firm to pay the ransom so it could get back on its feet.

Phishing Scams Target Canadian Bank Customers
2019-12-24 16:18

14 Bank Websites Spoofed as Part of Two-Year Campaign, Check Point ReportsFor two years, an attack group using Ukraine-based infrastructure has been creating hundreds of lookalike domains to...

Canadian Lab Pays Ransom to 'Retrieve' Data
2019-12-18 21:48

Hackers Exfiltrated Data on 15 Million LifeLabs ClientsA Canadian medical testing lab acknowledges that it paid a ransom to "retrieve" data stolen by hackers in an incident that apparently did not...

LifeLabs Paid Hackers to Recover Stolen Medical Data of 15 Million Canadians
2019-12-18 07:18

LifeLabs, the largest provider of healthcare laboratory testing services in Canada, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed the personal and medical information of nearly 15 million...

Canadian Lab Test Provider Pays Ransom to Secure Hacked Data
2019-12-18 03:38

Lab test provider LifeLabs said Tuesday that it paid a ransom to secure data for Canadians that was stolen in a data breach in late October. read more

Lab Results of 15 Million Canadians Hacked
2019-12-18 03:33

LifeLabs, which does blood work and other tests across Canada, said in a letter to customers that their names, contact information, health card numbers and lab test results were exposed in a cyber...

Ransomware freezes govt IT in Canadian territory of Nunavut, drops citizens right Inuit
2019-11-04 22:42

As US picks up its game, scumbags seek new targets A malware infection has crippled the IT operations in the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut.…

Ransomware freezes govt IT in Canadian province of Nunavut, drops citizens right Inuit
2019-11-04 22:42

As US picks up its game, scumbags seek new targets A malware infection has crippled the IT operations in the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut.…

Report: Encrypted Smartphone Takedown Outed Canadian Mole
2019-09-17 11:33

After Arresting Phantom Secure CEO, Authorities Reportedly Saw Secrets for SaleThe Canadian government has arrested a senior intelligence official on charges of working as a mole. He was...

Capital One gets Capital Done: Hacker swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants
2019-07-30 00:16

180,000 SSNs nicked, Seattle woman cuffed, charged Developing Capital One says a hacker made off with account details on more than 100 million of its customers in the US and Canada.…