Attackers are taking no breaks and actually pull harder before holidays, as shown by a San Antonio mental health services provider and a New Mexico hospital impacted by malware attacks according to reports and disclosures published before Christmas. Mental health provider takes down systems The CHSC provides various mental health services to adults and children with "mental health conditions, substance use challenges and intellectual or developmental disabilities" from San Antonio, Texas. "We started at our larger clinics, and we’re bringing it up slowly and carefully to ensure that our security is still intact." Patients encouraged to monitor credit reports New Mexico's RGH issued a security incident notice on December 23 to disclose a malware infection that affected one of its radiology servers last month, on November 14. "Although it is not been confirmed that the compromise of any data actually occurred, RGH is alerting potentially affected patients and offering assistance in monitoring their information," the alert adds.
Cable provider Volia appealed to the Cyber Police on the fact of fixing a DDoS attack on the Kharkov servers of the company, which has been ongoing since May 31. "For three days, from May 31 to today, the Volia infrastructure in Kharkov is subjected to cyberattacks. At first, they were carried out only on subscriber subsystems, later they switched to telecommunications infrastructure. As a result, more than 100,000 subscribers experienced problems using the Internet, IPTV, multi-screen platform, and digital TV," said the company. In total, the complete lack of access to Volia's services, according to the provider, lasted 12 minutes on May 31, 45 minutes on June 1. There was also an attack on the website volia.com, but it was managed to neutralize. "DDoS attacks were massive and well-organized. The type of attack is UDP flood and channel capacity overflow with the traffic of more than 200 GB. UDP is a protocol used for online streaming services - streaming, te...
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