SecureWorld News

APRIL 25, 2024

Non-essential operations were temporarily suspended as emergency response teams worked around the clock to understand the malware, prevent further damage, and initiate backups and recovery procedures where possible. This is due to a technical issue connected to the recent cyber attack, when we were forced to shut down our IT systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Guardian’s Australian staff were targeted in a sophisticated cyber attack that led to the leak of personal information of 140 current and former staff members. NOTE 1- The Guardian’s UK branch was the first to get targeted in the attack on December 20th,2022 and it was of ransomware variant.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The success of cyber attacks in Australia could make an "assume-breach" approach to cyber security inevitable and cause IT teams to shift their focus to protecting data backups at all costs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

News is out that social security numbers of nearly 35,000 users were leaked in a cyber attack that could have emerged from a credential stuffing campaign launched by a state funded actor. According to the update provided by a source from PayPal, the attack took place on December 6 and was identified at the end of last month.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A Cyber Attack has caused a temporary fuel supply in whole of Germany with situation intended to improve only after 10 days. Oiltanking GmbH Group and Mabanaft Group are the two firms that were deeply affected by the digital attack, resulting in halting the Operational Technology Systems to the core.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 11, 2022

After striking Samsung and Nvidia, Lapsus$ Ransomware Group has this time targeted British Telecom firm Vodafone and Buenos Aires online marketplace MercadoLibre. Whereas, Vodafone is still investigating the cyber attack claims and internal data theft.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Which are the cyber attacks of 2021 that had the major impact on organizations worldwide in terms of financial losses and disruption of the operations? Bloomberg was informed about the payment by two people familiar with the attack. Because the tool was too slow, the company used its backups to restore the systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2023

Interestingly, the hackers stole the data after stealing the login credentials of Admin console and siphoned information related to backups. Scientific analysis confirmed that the actual user MyBB admin of Kodi did not access and steal the information and was affirmed to be the work of cyber criminals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

London based Giant Group has confirmed that its IT infrastructure was suffering repercussions gained through a cyber attack on September 24th,2021 and all its phone, email and other payroll related servers were facing digital disruption.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2020

The France Télévisions group announced yesterday that it was hit by a cyber attack, targeting one of its broadcasting sites. The France Télévisions group announced Friday that it was the victim of a cyber attack that targeted one of its broadcasting sites. According to the group, the attack did not impact its antennae.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Are you worried about ransomware hitting your servers, putting a dent in your data intensive business? If that’s so, then Veeam Backup and Replication software is offering a data recovery warranty of $5 million from ransomware attacks.

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Webroot

MARCH 25, 2022

What is backup? Simply put, backup is a copy of your files. Why backup? Backup enables you to keep your data accessible and secure. Data loss can also occur as a result of falling victim to ransomware, malware or phishing. Take control of your data through backup. There are a number of backup options.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Alphv ransomware group added the Morrison Community Hospital to its dark web leak site. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claims to have hacked the Morrison Community Hospital and added it to its dark web Tor leak site. The group is known to have a role for its affiliated that prohibits attacking healthcare organizations.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Lorenz ransomware gang has been active since April 2021 and hit multiple organizations worldwide demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom to the victims. At the time of this writing, the Loren group has started uploading the stolen data (95%) US Healthcare organizations continue to be a privileged target of ransomware gangs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It is a well-known fact that those spreading malware like ransomware strike the same victim twice, if/when the victim shows negligence in fixing up the vulnerability that previously led to a data breach. The post LastPass becomes a cyber attack victim for the second time from the first time appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2023

For the past 1 year or so, a museum is unable to access its artecraft database because of a ransomware attack on the servers of Gloucester City Council. The Phishing email attack took place in the year 2021 and the Museum of Gloucester that identified the unauthorized intrusion is still being affected by the cyber incident.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2022

Healthcare providers are opting to pay a ransom in the event of ransomware attacks, instead of recovering it from data backups. The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2022 report is against what is being urged by the law enforcement agencies such as CISA and the FBI.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2021

A state-funded cyber attack has led to the New York Law Department hack disrupting legal proceedings from Saturday last week. And sources confirm that the disruption was caused by file-encrypting malware i.e. ransomware and it might take some time for the department to pull back the operations to normalcy.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2020

While the Coronavirus is spreading worldwide, a massive cyber attack hit the town hall of Marseille and the metropolis. According to sources informed of the fact, the cyber attack is unprecedented in its scale. At the time there are no details about the attack and the family of ransomware that hit the city.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The LockBit ransomware group published data allegedly stolen from the aerospace giant Boeing in a recent attack. At the end of October, the Lockbit ransomware group added Boeing to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The attack targeted elements of the parts and distribution business run by its global services division.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Japan -based camera and binocular manufacturer Olympus that is also into the manufacturing of medical devices has revealed in an official statement that its servers were targeted by BlackMatter Ransomware group that could have disrupted the computers systems in network operating in Middle East, Europe and Africa.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Swiss cloud hosting provider Swiss Cloud has suffered a ransomware attack that seriously impacted its server infrastructure. On April 27 the Swiss cloud hosting provider was hit by a ransomware attack that brought down the company’s server infrastructure. The backup systems can be used for recovery.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2022

Ransomware continues to dominate the headlines. executives say ransomware currently poses a “major concern” to their organization. One of the top cyber threats currently affecting companies is called ‘phishing’, in which a threat actor poses as a legitimate business colleague but follows up with a ransomware attack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2023

Antivirus firm Bitdefender released a decryptor for the MegaCortex ransomware allowing its victims to restore their data for free. Antivirus firm Bitdefender released a decryptor for the MegaCortex ransomware , which can allow victims of the group to restore their data for free. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 26, 2021

UnitingCare, an Australia-based healthcare services provider has reportedly been targeted by a cyber attack that is said to be of ransomware variant. The Australian Cyber Security Centre has launched an investigation on who has launched the cyber attack.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

Nearly half of EDR tools and organizations are vulnerable to Clop ransomware gang tactics, according to tests by a cybersecurity company. The continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) vendor tested to see if organizational controls would recognize the Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) of Clop ransomware attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2021

A ransomware attack that took place on Buffalo Public Schools (BPS) in March this year is said to have leaked personal info of students, parents, and employees to hackers and that includes some super-sensitive info such as bank account information like wire transfer details of vendors. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A group of lawyers have decided to file a lawsuit against the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) for failing to protect the information of its police officers from a ransomware breach. They also gained access to the backup database and deleted the backed information, making the data recovery impossible.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

MediaMarkt, the Europe’s number one consumer online retailer, has admitted that its IT infrastructure is working abnormally under the influence of a sophisticated cyber attack that appears to be of ransomware variant. The post Ransomware Attack on MediaMarkt appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 31, 2022

Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware gang — Conti.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Taiwanese electronics manufacture Compal suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend, media blames the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang. Compal suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend, a screenshot of the ransom note shared by the employees of the company is circulating online. Source ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The Burlington-based University of Vermont Health Network has finally admitted that ransomware was behind the October attack. The cyber attack took place on October 28 and disrupted services at the UVM Medical Center and affiliated facilities. million a day in lost revenue and recovery costs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released guidance on how to prevent data breaches resulting from ransomware attacks. “All organizations are at risk of falling victim to a ransomware incident and are responsible for protecting sensitive and personal data stored on their systems.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Micheal Dell, the CEO and founder of Dell Technologies said that corporate companies can easily prevent ransomware attacks by going for a layered security approach. Speaking and disclosing his mind at a virtual conference, Dell said that he was extremely pleased with the way White House has taken steps against ransomware spread.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2021

The audio equipment manufacturer Bose Corporation said it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place earlier this year, on March 7. Bose Corporation has announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place earlier this year, on March 7. Bose first detected the malware/ransomware on Bose’s U.S.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 20, 2022

H-Hotels, a large hospitality chain with 60 hotels across several countries including Germany and Switzerland has announced it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The incident, which took place on December 11, is allegedly a double whammy of hijacked devices and data theft…if a ransomware group is telling the truth.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The producers of fruit and vegetables Dole Food Company disclosed a ransomware attack that impacted its operations. The company announced that it has suffered a ransomware attack that impacted its operations. The company did not provide details about the attack, such as the ransomware family that infected its systems.

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