The threat actors known as “CLOP” have added three more firms to their leak site: Bombardier, Pentair, and CSA Group. All three firms have revenues that make them lucrative targets for “big game hunting.” But were all of these firms clients of Accellion, as were Jones Day and some other firms listed on CLOP’s leak…
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Finnish IT Giant Hit with Ransomware Cyberattack
All Tech reports: A big Finnish IT service provider has been hit with a ransomware attack that has compelled the corporation to turn off some products and services and infrastructure in a disruption to shoppers, while it usually takes restoration steps. Norwegian business enterprise journal E24 claimed the attack on Espoo, Finland-primarily based TietoEVRY on…
Fake whistleblower sentenced to federal prison for trying to frame a former acquaintance for violating patient privacy
This is a bit different. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Georgia: A Rincon man who portrayed himself as a whistleblower while falsely accusing a former acquaintance of violating patient privacy has been sentenced to federal prison. Jeffrey Parker, 44, of Rincon, Ga., was sentenced to six months in prison by U.S. District…
Hackers have eye on 6 Bangladeshi organisations
Mehedi Hasan reports: Kasablanca, a hacker group, has targeted cyberattacks on at least six well-known Bangladeshi financial and government organisations, says the e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (e-Gov CIRT), the state organisation responsible for securing the country’s cyberspace. The organisations are Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh Police, bKash, BRAC Bank, Islami Bank Bangladesh and Corona.gov.bd. The reason…
UK: Council apologizes for free school meals payment data breach
Email gaffes are still a thing, too. Kevin O’Sullivan reports: A Scottish local authority has apologised for a data breach after sending details of 600 free school meals claimants to ‘multiple’ email accounts. Scottish Borders council sent out the email in an IT blunder as it tried to contact 1,300 residents to inform them of…
NY Department of Financial Services Issues Cyber Fraud Alert to Regulated Entities Using Instant Quote Websites
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On February 16, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) issued a Cyber Fraud Alert (the “Alert”) to regulated entities in light of a growing campaign to steal Nonpublic Information (“NPI”), as defined under New York law, from public-facing websites that provide instant quotes for products like auto insurance (“Instant Quote…