Another French hospital, centre Hospitalier G�n�ral d’Oloron, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. France Bleu reports (translation): The Oloron Sainte-Marie hospital (Pyr�n�es-Atlantiques) was the victim of a cyberattack on Monday march 8 in the early afternoon. No covering works and a message asking for a ransom of $ 50,000 to be transferred to a bitcoin account paralyzes the entire computer system. no network, external or internal, has been functioning since. a virus detected because all patient files were encrypted on all workstations, such as in the hospitals of Dax or Villefranche-sur-Sa�ne, also victims of last February. Read more on France Blue. meanwhile in Spain, Diego Larrouy and carlos del Castillo report that Spain’s public engagement system was attacked by what appears to live Ryuk ransomware (translation:) The website of SEPE, the public work system, is down this tuesday as a result of a cyberattack that SEPE’s computer systems experience received. Sources from the Ministry of dig indicate that at the minute the extraction is unknown and work is being done to stir the service. […] Although the origin of this cyber tone-beginning is unknown from Labor, SEPE employees hold found that the aforementioned suspicious files had the nominate ‘Ryuk’. If confirmed, it would be a ransomware- type virus , characterized by encrypting the victim’s files, preventing access to them. register more on El Diario. And finally (for now, anyway), in other hacking-related news, Cosco Shipping, the world’s third largest container line, has had its email system compromised, allegedly by the Brazilian hacker known as LORDBR. Cosco Shipping is headquartered in China. MBW has the story. Great thanks to @Chum1ng0 for sending these in.
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