Francesco Canepa and Andreas Rinke of Reuters report: Unidentified hackers attempted to trick European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde into letting them open a messaging app account in her name by posing as former German chancellor Angela Merkel, a German source said on Tuesday. The plot was quickly foiled without any information being compromised, an…
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Au: Deakin U. targeted in cyberattack
Deakin University reports: On Sunday 10 July, Deakin University became aware of an incident in which a staff member’s username and password was hacked and used by an unauthorised person to access information held by a third-party provider. This third-party has been engaged by Deakin to forward messages prepared by the University to students via…
Fr: The Department of Indre-et-Loire victim of a cyber attack
Romain Dézèque reports: The Department of Indre-et-Loire was the victim of a computer attack during the night of July 10 to 11. All of the local authority’s services were paralyzed. Read more at France Bleu Touraine
When the data leak is not from the victim you named, Wednesday edition
Ever since threat actor groups started naming and leaking victims who do not pay their demands, groups have occasionally misidentified their victims. Today’s example is courtesy of Avos Locker, who added the Canadian Mental Health Association to their leak site in April. Inspection of the data in the leak, however, quickly raised questions as to…
SCOOP: Hive claims responsibility for attack on Artear, the Argentinian multimedia giant
On June 1, Clarin reported that their Artear (Arte Radiotelevisivo Argentino) group, had been attacked by cybercriminals who managed to install ransomware. Artear is responsible for producing and broadcasting several television channels in Argentina. Clarin’s announcement did not name the threat actors, and claimed that by then, no ransom demand had been received, but DataBreaches…
Four ransomware attacks on non-U.S. medical entities: Did anyone get notified?
So far, 2022 is not turning out to be a better year than 2021 when it comes to ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector. In its recent report, “The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2022,” Sophos reports that ransomware attacks in the healthcare sector almost doubled from 2020 to 2021 and that while the ransom…