San Francisco 49ers NFL team discloses BlackByte ransomware attack

13th February 2022 | Target: San Francisco 49ers | Reported Here The San Francisco 49ers NFL team has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, the news was reported by The Record. The team disclosed the attack after that the BlackByte ransomware added the team to the list of its victims on its dark web leak site.

 

Security breach at A1 Hrvatska

10th February 2022 | Target: A1 Hrvatska | Reported Here Croatian phone carrier ‘A1 Hrvatska’ has disclosed a data breach exposing the personal information of 10% of its customers, roughly 200,000 people. The announcement does not provide many details other than that they suffered a cybersecurity incident involving the unauthorized access of one of their user databases, which contained sensitive personal information.

 

Vodafone Portugal hit with cyberattack affecting 4G/5G network, TV, SMS services

8th February 2022 | Target: Vodafone Portugal | Reported Here Vodafone’s (VOD.L) Portuguese unit said on Tuesday a hacker attack overnight had disrupted its services but assured its customers that their personal data had not been compromised as a result of the incident, which is under investigation. Vodafone Portugal said in a statement its system faced technical problems on Monday evening, with thousands of customers reporting they were unable to make calls or access the internet on their phones or computers.

 

Puma hit by data breach after Kronos ransomware attack

7th February 2022 | Target: Puma | Reported Here Data of 6,632 Puma employees was stolen in a ransomware attack that hit HR management platform Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG) in December. Potentially exposed data includes names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information. The attack hit the Kronos Private Cloud service used to host multiple cloud applications, including Banking Scheduling Solutions, Healthcare Extensions, UKG TeleStaff, and UKG Workforce Central.

 

Ransomware attack hit Swissport International causing delays in flights

4th February 2022 | Target: Swissport International Ltd. | Reported Here Swissport International was hit by a ransomware attack that had a severe impact on its operations causing flights to suffer delays. According to the German website Spiegel, the ransomware attack impacted a limited part of the company’s global IT infrastructure, a company spokesman confirmed that the security breach took place on Thursday morning at 6 AM.

 

News Corp Discloses Cyber-Attack

4th February 2022 | Target: News Corp | Reported Here American media and publishing giant News Corp has disclosed today that it was the target of a “persistent” cyberattack. The attack discovered sometime this January, reportedly allowed threat actors to access emails and documents of some News Corp employees, including journalists.

 

Hackers steal $320 million in cryptocurrency from Wormhole

3rd February 2022 | Target: Wormhole Crypto | Reported Here Wormhole is a platform that allows users to transfer cryptocurrency across different blockchains. The company confirmed in a series of Tweets that 1,20,000 wETH was stolen from the platform and the network was down for maintenance as they looked into a potential exploit. However, later the firm said the vulnerability was patched and the network was being restored.

 

KP Snacks giant hit by Conti ransomware

2nd February 2022 | Target: KP Snacks | Reported Here British food producer KP Snacks was hit with a ransomware attack last week. In a statement to ZDNet, the company said it discovered the ransomware attack on Friday, January 28. “As soon as we became aware of the incident, we enacted our cybersecurity response plan and engaged a leading forensic information technology firm and legal counsel to assist us in our investigation,” a company spokesperson said.

 

Cyber-attack strikes German fuel supplies

1st February 2022 | Target: Oiltanking GmbH | Reported Here Oiltanking GmbH, a German petrol distributor who supplies Shell gas stations in the country, has fallen victim to a cyberattack that severely impacted its operations. Additionally, the attack has also affected Mabanaft GmbH, an oil supplier. Both entities are subsidiaries of the Marquard & Bahls group, which may have been the breach point.

 

Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have hacked Ministry of Justice of France

27th January 2022 | Target: Ministry of Justice of France | Reported Here The infamous LockBit ransomware gang is claiming to have hit the Ministry of Justice of France (justice.fr) as part of its recent spree of ransomware attacks. Although the details of the attack are limited, according to the group’s official website the Ministry has 13 days to meet its demands or sensitive data of it will be published on February 10th, 2022.

 

Official says Puerto Rico’s Senate targeted by cyberattack

27th January 2022 | Target: Puerto Rico’s Senate | Reported Here The Senate of Puerto Rico announced this week that it was hit by a major cyberattack that disabled its internet provider, phone system and official online page. Local and federal authorities are investigating the attack.

 

Conti ransomware hits Apple, Tesla supplier

27th January 2022 | Target: Delta Electronics | Reported Here The Conti ransomware gang has been linked to an attack on Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company and a major supplier of power components to companies like Apple and Tesla. The attack took place last Friday, on January 21, according to a statement shared by the company with stock market authorities.

 

Nobel Foundation site hit by DDoS attack

26th January 2022 | Target: Nobel Foundation | Reported Here Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute, have disclosed a cyberattack on their infrastructure, aimed at disrupting the live stream of the award ceremony held last month. This is specifically a DDoS attack, as noted by the Nobel community, and the ones behind this incident are not known as of now. But, there’s speculation that state-backed hackers can possibly be the perpetrators, considering the allegations against the Nobel team for biased decisions since the past.

 

DeadBolt ransomware targets QNAP devices

25th January 2022 | Target: QNAP Devices | Reported Here DeadBolt ransomware is targeting QNAP NAS devices worldwide, its operators claim the availability of a zero-day exploit that allows them to encrypt the content of the infected systems. Once encrypted the content of the device, the ransomware appends .deadbolt extension to the name of the excerpted files and deface the login page of the QNAP NAS to display the following message

 

Canada’s foreign affairs department hit with cyberattack

25th January 2022 | Target: Canada’s foreign affairs department | Reported Here Canada’s foreign affairs department was hit with a cyberattack last week, according to the Treasury Board of Canada. The hack of Global Affairs Canada, the government entity responsible for diplomatic and global relations, occurred on Wednesday