14,000 US Patients Data Stolen By Email Hacking

An American healthcare has warned 14,000 patients that their data is stolen after a third party that handles billing with was to create an e-mail hack. One of the employees of this company was last year, according to the carer the victim of an " email hacking attack , "where username and passwords were compromised.

The incident was on December 3 last year discovered by the billing company, while the caregiver was told that on February 2 this year. Then there was established a research which showed that in the e-mail account of the attacked employee was the personal information of 14,000 patients, including names, date of birth, diagnosis, procedure, treatment dates, account numbers, costs and names of doctors.

In the case of 40 patients it was also to social security numbers. The healthcare provider will notify all affected patients by mail. In addition, there will be the email provider to see whether the already "robust security" can be tightened and staff will "email hacking attacks" are informed.

SONY - Malware Analysis

The malware was used recently against Sony is the same " destructive "malware that the FBI this week warned. Reported that the Japanese anti-virus company Trend Micro that a copy of the malware got hold. The main part of the malware is a collection of user names and passwords to be logged on shared network drives.

Once active users remove the malware files and files connected network drives and stops the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service. Then the malware two hour idle and then restart the system. Another part of the malware puts a .bmp file on the computer that contains the message "Hacked by #GOP". This is the same image that would have appeared on the computers from Sony. Trend Micro therefore proposes that the malware that was used against Sony.

Here is Deep Analysis of Destructive Malware By Some Security Research Companies:

Trend Mirco
Kaspersky
Symantec
BlueCoat

VirusTotal Link:
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