Since March, 2021, data exfiltrated from Butler County Sheriff’s Office has been dumped on the dark web and clear net, but those affected may never have known that because the threat actors named the wrong victim. Relying too much on the word of criminals, researchers and compilations also misidentified the victim. Researchers and journalists should…
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Sault Ste. Marie Police Service victim of ransomware attack
Not much has been revealed at this point, but Sault St. Marie Police Service has posted a statement disclosing that they have been the victim of a ransomware attack: Approved by: 361 – August 30, 2021 On Thursday, August 26, 2021 we became aware of a virtual ransomware attack on our systems. At no time…
Lukashenko hid the real data of Covid-19 mortality. A cyber attack has revealed figures about 14 times higher
The following is a Google translation of a news report by Anastasia Harea: Belarusian authorities have lied about the number of deaths caused by the new coronavirus. Everything came to light after a group of anonymous hackers from Belarus broke into the national civil status system, and the data found showed that between March 2020…
Za: Transnet reports disruption on its IT network, employees told to shut down
Transnet SOC Ltd is a large South African rail, port and pipeline company. Today, they tweeted that they were experiencing a disruption: Transnet experiencing disruption on its IT network pic.twitter.com/bGwGweySL0 — Transnet SOC Ltd (@follow_transnet) July 22, 2021 Transnet experiencing disruption on its IT network [Johannesburg; 22 July 2021] Transnet Ltd SOC (“Transnet”) is currently…
Be: Hit by cyberattack, the Courcelles Public Social Action Center persevered to respond to floods and emergency conditions
On July 15, the Courcelles Public Center for Social Action (CPAS) issued a statement on its Facebook page: !!Alles CPAS Administrative Services have been forced to stop since Tuesday. We have been the subject of a large-scale cyber attack and our security systems unfortunately have not been able to counter it. The IT Department worked…
Il: Ransomware attack on Israeli IT company impacts more than 100 customers, including hospitals
Note: this report is a summary based entirely on machine translation of articles on ynet by Tal Shahaf and Calcalist by Raphael Kahan. Shahaf reports that Pionet , which is owned by Malam Tim, suffered a ransomware attack that has paralyzed many of the company’s systems and the sites of more than a hundred of…