CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 3, 2023

A cyber attack launched and identified on March 26th of this year has triggered the incident response teams of Western Digital (WD) to take appropriate steps to mitigate the cyber risks of the incident. However, it assured to the media that it will reveal more of the cyber incident details after the probe gets done.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Los Angeles Unified School District, shortly known as LAUSD, was hit by a ransomware attack crippling its IT infrastructure the last weekend. The attack badly hit all the email servers, and those meant for communication, prompting the school to inform law enforcement as the attack was launched with criminal intentions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

CMA CGM, a France-based shipping and transportation company, has officially admitted that it was hit by a cyber attack that led to the leak of sensitive information such as first and last names, employee name, designation of employee, email address and phone number. million to offer a decryption key.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2024

Electronic prescription provider MediSecure in Australia suffered a ransomware attack likely originate from a third-party vendor. The company was forced to shut down its website and phone lines following a cyber attack, but it did not mention a ransomware attack. ” reported ABC. million customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 19, 2023

According to recent reports, it appears that the European Investment Bank (EIB) has fallen victim to a cyber attack orchestrated by the Russian hacking group known as Killnet. In a separate incident, the BlackCat Ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, targeted the popular technology-based social media platform, Reddit.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

Unfortunately, our investigation has identified that an unauthorised third party has accessed some customer information.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware) “It is important to note that our systems are secure. .”

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The US Agriculture industry is only the latest victim of ransomware attacks – highlighting yet again the susceptibility of our supply chain to devastating cyber attacks. Considering recent cyber attacks on the water supply we need to rethink our conception of which industries and types of companies are at risk.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The charity organization Save the Children International revealed that it was hit by a cyber attack. The company disclosed the security incident after the ransomware gang BianLian listed the organization on its Tor leak site.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group has been targeting Israeli organizations with destructive cyber attacks since January. personally identifiable information (PII) and intellectual property) and then deploy various wipers to cover the tracks. The tool sqlextractor (binary name sql.net4.exe)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 11, 2023

According to a statement released by the Chief Operating Officer Patrick Hackett, a portion of data was accessed by unauthorized parties who might have copied the information to other servers. According to a statement, the company was hit by a cyber attack and it led to manufacturing disruption to a certain extent.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 29, 2021

A spokesperson released a press statement yesterday and confirmed that the attack was a ransomware variant and the incident was contained finally with an in-house disaster recovery procedure. A vulnerability on the Microsoft email exchange server is said to have led to the ransomware attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 24, 2023

Yellow Pages Canada reportedly fell victim to a Black Basta Ransomware attack at the end of March this year. Black Basta has emerged as one of the notorious ransomware-spreading groups after LockBit and is seen taking down computer networks of many notable companies such as Capita and Sobeys.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2021

A Cyber Attack on one of the technology suppliers to Canada Post has reportedly resulted in the leak of information of more than 950,000 customers. And out of an abundance of caution has also informed 44 of its customers about the data breach to prevent any identity frauds in the future. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2024

A cyber attack on Leicester City Council resulted in certain street lights remaining illuminated all day and severely impacted the council’s operations The Leicester City Council suffered a cyber attack that severely impacted the authority’s services in March and led to the leak of confidential documents.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cyber attack on the logistics giant DP World caused significant disruptions in the operations of several major Australian ports. A cyberattack hit the international logistics firm DP World Australia and disrupted the operations in major Australian ports.

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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. The pipeline allows carrying 2.5

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The cyber attack that hit the cleaning products manufacturer Clorox in August is still affecting the supply of the products to customers. In response to the cyber attack, the company has taken some of its systems offline while it was implementing additional “protections and hardening measures to further secure them”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 27, 2021

Gyrodata that offers technology services to mining companies was hit by a ransomware cyberattack early this year. A statement released by the company states that the Gyrodata servers were hit by a file-encrypting malware spread by REvil ransomware group and a portion of data was accessed and stolen by the hacker/s. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2023

In a statement issued by the delivery giant yesterday, the 5 centuries old non-profit government organization is busy investigating a cyber incident that brought its operations to knees from early this month. Russia linked hackers group dubbed LockBit Ransomware is suspected to be behind the cyber attack and a probe is still on.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

FBI has issued a formal alert on unpatched medical devices and says that these are extremely vulnerable to cyber attacks because of outdated software. Often such outdated devices bring in digital troubles to medical facilities as they can affect patient data, pose a risk to information security and data integrity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 11, 2021

The Redwood-based company that stands as the second-largest gaming company in America after Ubisoft stated that it is taking the help of security experts to investigate the incident to the core and assured that it will share all the information related to the cyber attack with other companies and the government.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2021

Channel Nine, an Australian free to air TV network, was reportedly hit by a cyber attack that sources confirm could be of ransomware variant. Ransomware attack is a kind of malware attack that compromises the data on a server and locks it down from access until a ransom is paid.

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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

MARCH 17, 2022

The first line of defense against ransomware lies with email authentication. Learn more information about how to take a proactive approach to cyber attacks. The post Email authentication helps governments and private companies battle ransomware appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2024

FuckRansomware pic.twitter.com/uD09m7AukH — Jon DiMaggio (@Jon__DiMaggio) May 5, 2024 However, researchers at VX-underground have spoken with Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff regarding the return of the old domain and the gang claims law enforcement is lying. Lockbit ransomware group states law enforcement is lying.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Comprising members from Europe and North America, mainly programmers and network engineers from Poland, France, Switzerland and Canada; the Against the West (ATW) group has so far stolen sensitive information, including source code and employee details from over 100 government agencies of China.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A few days ago, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) based in Delhi was hit by a cyber attack of ransomware variant and sources report that the hackers are demanding Rs 200 Crores to return the stolen information belonging to millions of patients that would be otherwise sold on the dark web.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 3, 2022

First news is about a cyber attack on two energy companies operating in Luxembourg. According to the web, two energy firms Creos and Enovos, both business units of Encevo Group, were targeted by a ransomware attack on the night of July 22 this year. Third is the news related to ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Microsoft has made it official that it has disabled macros across its office products to block malware cyber attacks. The post Microsoft disables macros to curtail Malware Cyber Attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

A ransomware attack on a Swedish logistics company Skanlog severely impacted the country’s liquor supply. Skanlog, a critical distributor for Systembolaget, the Swedish government-owned retail chain suffered a ransomware attack. Our systems, including our central business system, have been affected by the attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 14, 2022

A few hours ago, Ukraine government’s critical websites were hit by a cyber attack, blocking access to thousands of users from the past 6 hours. SBU Security Service of Ukraine assured that no information was stolen in the attack and only resulted in a digital disruption that will be brought back to normalcy in a few hours.

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AUGUST 28, 2022

Microsoft released a report that cloud applications are acting as catalysts for cyber attacks as it detected over 1.5 million attack attempts on cloud environments in a time frame of just 60 months. Researchers saw a rise in the attacks, as most of the targets were service providers whose impact was directly felt by customers.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Hospitality and entertainment company MGM Resorts was hit by a cyber attack that shut down its systems at MGM Hotels and Casinos. Hospitality and entertainment company MGM Resorts was the victim of a cyber attack, the IT infrastructure across the United States was shut down.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Well, unconfirmed reports state that the entire database owned by the Microsoft Regional Director Troy Hunt was hacked by cyber criminals through an unknown vulnerability. New hacking group named ‘Team Montesano’ has taken the claim of the attack and is apparently being linked to Lapsus$ Ransomware group. .

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