Category: Security Audit
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French Telco, La Poste Mobile, Down Due To Ransomware
French mobile phone network La Poste Mobile is still struggling to recover from a ransomware attack that has crippled its administrative and management services. The company’s website is down, with a lengthy message to customers explaining that the ransomware attack began on July 4. While service has not been affected, the company noted that customer… Read more
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States Are Looking to Ban Ransomware Payouts
Florida recently signed HB 7055, which, among other things requires that all state agencies report cybersecurity and ransomware incidents, and that every state employee receives substantive training in cybersecurity. All good things. However, they have also joined the increasing number of states, beginning with North Carolina in April of this year, Pennsylvania, Texas, Arizona (HB 2145) and New York which have either… Read more
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Marriott Breached For 7th Time Since 2010
Marriott confirmed it was the target of yet another data breach after attackers recently breached the company’s systems. The company said hackers used social engineering techniques to gain access to an employee’s computer. After obtaining around 20GB of data, the person or group behind the attack tried to extort Marriott, but the company refused to… Read more
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Fake Job Offer Leads to $540 Million Crypto Heist
Rarely has a job application backfired more spectacularly than in the case of one senior engineer at Axie Infinity, whose interest in joining what turned out to be a fictitious company led to one of the crypto sector’s biggest hacks. Ronin, the Ethereum-linked sidechain that underpins play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, lost $540 million in crypto to an… Read more
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Largest Data Breach Ever? Leak of Personal Data For 1 Billion Chinese Citizens
A hacker claiming to have stolen personal data from hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens is now selling the information online. A sample of 750,000 entries posted online by the hacker showed citizens’ names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, birthdays and police reports they had filed. AFP and cybersecurity experts have verified some… Read more
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Macmillan Publishers Shuts Operations Due to Ransomware Attack
Publisher Macmillan is in the process of recovering from a ransomware attack that has left it unable to process orders electronically. No ransomware group has come forward to claim the attack, but employees of the company initially took to Twitter to discuss the incident. The company was emailing customers and employees about closing its offices… Read more
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House of Reps. Passes ICS Cybersecurity Training Bill
The US House of Representatives has passed a new cybersecurity bill named the “Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Training Act.” The bill was introduced in May by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and it was approved by the House last week. Swalwell said the goal of the legislation is to help strengthen the US’s cybersecurity protections “in… Read more
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Ransomware Cost to US Educational Sector is Over $3.5 Billion in Downtime and Recovery
U.S. schools and colleges spent $3.56 billion in estimated downtime and recovery costs from ransomware attacks last year, according to CNET. The findings also showed that ransomware-related downtimes lasted four days on average, while recovery spanned nearly a month on average. Ransomware attacks against educational entities are expected to be lower this year, with documented… Read more
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Chinese Web Giant Tencent Announces Stolen Accounts on QQ.com
Chinese web giant Tencent has admitted to a significant account hijack attack on its QQ.com messaging and social media platform. In a post to rival social media platform Sina Weibo – a rough analog of Twitter – Tencent apologized for the incident. The problem manifested on Sunday night and saw an unnamed number of QQ users complain… Read more
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Lithuania Targeted By Russian Cyber Attack
Lithuania said Monday it had been hit by an “intense” cyberattack, probably Russian, days after Moscow protested restrictions Vilnius imposed on the rail transit of certain goods to Kaliningrad. Russia last week threatened reprisals against the Baltic nation after Vilnius imposed the restrictions, which it said was simply the application of European Union sanctions. “Lithuanian… Read more