Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

Cybersecurity firm Qualys is the latest victim of a cyber attack, the company was likely hacked by threat actors that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in their Accellion FTA server. The attackers exfiltrate sensitive data from the target systems and then published it on the CLOP ransomware gang’s leak site.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

At-home laboratory services provider Apex Laboratory discloses a ransomware attack and consequent data breach. The at-home laboratory services provider Apex Laboratory disclosed a ransomware attack, the hackers also stole some patient in the incident that took place on July 25, 2020. Apex Laboratory, Inc.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

Conti ransomware targeted over 400 organizations worldwide, 290 in the US, and at least 16 healthcare and first responder networks. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that the Conti ransomware gang has hit at least 16 healthcare and first responder organizations. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Conti Ransomware).

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2021

FBI confirmed that the attack against the Colonial Pipeline over the weekend was launched by the Darkside ransomware gang. Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that the Colonial Pipeline was shut down due to a cyber attack carried out by the Darkside ransomware gang. The pipeline allows carrying 2.5

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) shuts down a large portion of its central IT infrastructure between May 6 and May 7, 2020. The Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), German, announced today that it was forced to shut down parts of its central IT infrastructure due to a cyber attack that took place overnight, between May 6 and May 7.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

S ome operations at INA Group, Croatia’s biggest oil company, and its largest petrol station chain were disrupted by a cyber attack. A ransomware attack has disrupted operations at INA Group, Croatia’s biggest oil company, and its largest petrol station chain. “Market supply is secure. .”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Cyber security researcher Luca Mella analyzed the Makop ransomware employed in a recent intrusion. Executive summary Insights from a recent intrusion authored by Makop ransomware operators show persistence capability through dedicated.NET tools. The “ARestore” tool is.NET executable built in 2020 and partially obfuscated.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Flavor and fragrance producer Symrise is the last victim of the Clop ransomware gang that claims to have stolen 500 GB of unencrypted files. Symrise AG, a major producer of flavours and fragrances, was hit by Clop ransomware operators. Clop ransomware operators revealed told BleepingComputer they attack vector were phishing emails.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency and the FBI warned about the increase in ransomware attacks targeting the US K-12 educational sector. The number of attacks surged at the beginning of the 2020 school year. ” “ reads the alert issued by CISA. ” states the alert.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2021

Dassault Falcon Jet has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information belonging to current and former employees. In December Dassault, Dassault Falcon Jet (DFJ) was the victim of a cyber attack that may have exposed personal information belonging to current and former employees. ” states the notice.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have breached the European gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have hacked the European gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claims to have stolen more than 150 GB from the company, a total of 180.000 files.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2021

Clop ransomware gang leaked online data stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, and the University of California. Clop ransomware operators have leaked the personal and financial information stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), and the University of California.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

Elexon, a middleman in the UK power grid network, recently reported it was hit by a cyber attack. Elexon , a middleman in the UK power grid network, was the victim of a cyber attack, the incident impacted only affected the internal IT network, including the company’s email server, and employee laptops.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. That’s because gaining the initial foothold is rarely the difficult part of the attack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

On March 21, the Maze ransomware operators published some of the stolen files on their “leak site,” after the refusal of the research firm of paying the ransom. Stolen data included the personal information for volunteers who surnames begin with D, G, I, or J. A criminal group called Maze has claimed responsibility.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

The City of Torrance of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, California, is the last victim of the DoppelPaymer Ransomware, hackers also stole its data. On Sunday, the computer systems in the city of Torrance suffered a cyber attack that interrupted access to email accounts and server functions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

In April the information technologies services giant Cognizant Technology suffered a ransomware attack, now it has confirmed also a data breach. In April the information technologies services giant Cognizant Technology was hit by Maze Ransomware operators. SecurityAffairs – Cognizant, Maze ransomware).

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CSO Magazine

JULY 28, 2022

There’s also the increase in the sheer volume of cyber attacks to contend with; between July 2020 and June 2021, there was a 1,070% increase in ransomware attacks alone. [1] 1] For Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), this has created a variety of new challenges to contend with.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2021

Conti ransomware also breached the network of Ireland’s Department of Health (DoH) but the ransomware failed to encrypt the systems. Last week, Conti ransomware gang targeted the Ireland’s Health Service Executive that was forced to shut down its IT systems on Friday after being targeted with a significant ransomware attack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

This week, Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice has temporarily shut down its operation following a ransomware attack during judgment sessions. The presidency of the court has already called the Federal Police to investigate the cyber attack.” “It was basically a ransomware attack .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

. “At the present time, no damage has been done, nor are there any indications that data has been stolen or modified,” This isn’t the first attack suffered by the company, in 2012, the company was targeted by another cyber attack that was classified as “heavy” and of “exceptional quality.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Bookstore giant Barnes & Noble has disclosed a cyber attack and that the threat actors have exposed the customers’ data. 1/2 — NOOK (@nookBN) October 14, 2020. (2/2) — NOOK (@nookBN) October 14, 2020. Barnes & Noble, Inc. , Thank you for your patience.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2022

billion euros in 2020. The outages impacted stores worldwide, the company confirmed the cyber attack in an official statement, it is investigating the incident with the help of external experts: “METRO/MAKRO is currently experiencing a partial IT infrastructure outage for several technical services. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Experts believe that the attack was carried out by a ransomware gang, it has been estimated that the city may take a couple of weeks to fully recover its operations. At the time it is not clear which is the family of malware that hit the City’s infrastructure, but media speculate the involvement of ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Australian beverage company Lion announced that it has found no evidence that hackers have stolen information from its systems. The Australian brewery and dairy conglomerate Lion suffered two cyber attacks in a few days this month. Unfortunately, this is consistent with these types of ransomware attacks,”.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

COVID-19 themed attacks October 1 – December 5, 2020 Drug dealers are selling Pfizer COVID vaccines on the darkweb LockBit Ransomware operators hit Swiss helicopter maker Kopter Police arrest two people over stealing sensitive data from defense giant A ransomware attack hit the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Cisco fixes exploitable RCEs in Cisco (..)

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. The ransomware attack was said to be executed on 17th January 2021 and over 200Gb of data was exfiltrated. More and More Ransomware Attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

A cyberattack crippled the IT infrastructure of the City of Saint John Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online Romanians arrested for running underground malware services Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs Computer Security and Data Privacy, the perfect alliance (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The Notice Regarding Network Issues published by the company states that on the morning of November 2nd, 2020 is suffered a cyberattack, In response to the incident the game developer shut down portions of their corporate network to prevent the malware from spreading. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2020

System supporting libraries in Volusia County were hit by a cyber attack, the incident took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library (VCPL) branches. The attack started around 7 AM on January 9, 2020. ” Source BleepingComputer. .” ” Source BleepingComputer. ” reported BleepingComputer.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, could lead to subsequent cyber attacks against individual users or affiliated organizations.” Crooks obtain the information by conducting spear-phishing and ransomware attacks, or other means.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

The TA505 group was involved in campaigns aimed at distributing the Dridex banking Trojan, along with Locky , BitPaymer , Philadelphia , GlobeImposter , and Jaff ransomware families. Security experts from cyber-security firm Prevailion reported that TA505 has compromised more than 1,000 organizations. states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

US defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) was hit by a cyber attack, threat actors stole personal information from its email system. The company confirmed that attackers exfiltrated files containing sensitive information. ” concludes the notice. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Hackers posted data stolen from manufacturer of business jets Bombardier on Clop ransomware leak site following alleged FTA hack. Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Accellion FTA file-sharing legacy servers to steal data from the airplane maker Bombardier and leak data on the site operated by the Clop ransomware gang.

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