Threat actors claim to have stolen Jones Day files; law firm remains quiet
Over on AdvIntel, Tyler Combs has a post about threat actors attacking law firms. Many of us are already aware of a number of law firms who have been attacked and who have had their firm’s files dumped...
View ArticleCould an ex-employee be planting ransomware on your firm’s network?
We’ve all seen too many instances where vengeful former employees have tried to sabotage their former employer’s network. Even when their employers remember to revoke access for the individual, they...
View ArticleFrench IT monitoring company’s software targeted by hackers
Reuters reports: Hackers have spent up to three years breaking into organizations by targeting monitoring software made by the French company Centreon, France’s cybersecurity watchdog said Monday. The...
View ArticleCould your baby monitor be unsafe and unsecured?
I’d ask, “Why is this STILL happening?” but I think we all know the answers to that, and Jim Wilson of Safety Detectives actually addresses that in his article. The SafetyDetectives cybersecurity team...
View ArticleJones Day disputes claimed breach; points to hacked vendor; hacker points...
Although Jones Day failed to respond to multiple inquiries sent to it by this site about a ransomware attack claimed by CLOP threat actors*, the giant law firm apparently responded to inquiries by the...
View ArticleThousands of CityBee users have their personal data leaked online
Matthew Holroyd reports: Police in Lithuania are investigating after the personal data of 110,000 people was leaked to an online hacker website. The car-sharing service, CityBee, confirmed the records...
View ArticleSan Jose Man Pleads Guilty to Computer Hack that Shut Down Opening Day...
SAN JOSE – Salvatore A. La Rosa pleaded guilty today in federal court in San Jose to intentional damage to a protected computer, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of...
View ArticleThree North Korean Military Hackers Involved in Sony Pictures Hack, Wanna...
A federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal...
View ArticleAccellion’s data breach left clients in tough position: pay extortion to...
A breach involving Accellion‘s older file transfer application has left a number of its customers in the unenviable position of not only having a data breach to deal with, but with the added threat...
View ArticleHacker attack on Hellenic Defense Systems (Ελληνικά Αμυντικά Συστήματα (EAS)...
(translation): The attack was noticed a few days ago and according to a report in the newspaper “Kathimerini”, the Ministry of National Defense and the Police have been involved in the investigation...
View ArticleKia denies ransomware attack ‘speculation’ as it recovers from days-long outages
AP reports: Kia Motors America says it’s restoring services crippled by a computer network outage that began Saturday and which apparently affected dealers’ ability to order vehicles and parts and...
View ArticleCyber attack: Afnor admits to being confronted with Ryuk ransomware
Valéry Marchive reports (translation): Ironically, when the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced, this Thursday, February 18 at noon, the allocation of one billion euros , as part of...
View ArticleVendée: the Bénéteau company victim of a cyberattack
Philippe Rey-Gorez reports (translation): The Bénéteau boat company, headquartered in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, Vendée, is the victim of a cyberattack , its communications department announced on...
View ArticleKroger reports Accellion data breach affecting pharmacy records, associate HR...
Brian Planalp reports: Kroger is informing some customers and associates that a third-party software company it uses for data services recently suffered a data breach. Kroger’s own IT systems were not...
View ArticleUnderwriters Laboratories (UL) certification giant hit by ransomware
Lawrence Abrams reports: UL LLC, better known as Underwriters Laboratories, has suffered a ransomware attack that encrypted its servers and caused them to shut down systems while they recover. […]...
View ArticlePH: Cashalo hit with data breach, but says accounts not compromised
Xave Gregorio reports: Fintech platform Cashalo reported Saturday it has been hit by a data breach, but assured that accounts and passwords of their users have not been compromised as these have been...
View ArticleWatermark takes action after data security breach potentially affects people...
Kimberly Bonvissuto reports: Tucson, AZ-based Watermark Retirement Communities is the latest victim of a data security breach, in this case one that may have compromised the personal information of 208...
View ArticleFireEye and Accellion provide more details on attack
Andrew Moore, Genevieve Stark, Isif Ibrahima, Van Ta of FireEye write: Starting in mid-December 2020, malicious actors that Mandiant tracks as UNC2546 exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in...
View ArticlePH: NPC finds data breach in cash-loaning app
Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat has an update on the Cashalo breach, noted previously. The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said its initial findings showed data breach on cash-loaning application Cashalo...
View ArticleInside a ransomware attack on a small trucking company
Nate Tabak reports: George got the email a week after the ransomware attack on the small trucking and logistics company he manages. It contained screenshots from within the firm’s transportation...
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