Inti Landauro and Andrei Khalip reports: Santa Barbara Systems, a General Dynamics (GD.N) subsidiary in Spain that is refurbishing Leopard tanks for delivery to Ukraine, suffered a cyberattack on its website, a pro-Russia hacker group said. A spokesperson for General Dynamics confirmed that the defence contractor’s Spanish unit had been targeted in an attempted cyberattack “that…
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HC3: Analyst Note: Healthcare Sector DDoS Guide
May 30, 2024 HC3: Analyst Note TLP:CLEAR Report: 20240530120 Executive Summary A Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a type of cyber attack in which an attacker uses multiple systems, often referred to as a botnet, to send a high volume of traffic or requests to a targeted network or system, overwhelming it and making it unavailable…
Important Security Notice: Data Breach Incident on June 5, 2024 | CoinGecko
From their notice: CoinGecko, the world’s largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregator, experienced a data breach on June 5, 2024, through its third-party email platform, GetResponse. How did the data breach happen? On June 5, 2024, around 06:30 AM UTC, we detected unusual activity on our third-party email marketing platform, GetResponse. An attacker had compromised a…
Never heard of the Embargo ransomware group? SuspectFile provides some insight.
Marco A. De Felice (aka @amvinfe) writes: Embargo is yet another ransomware group emerging in the digital extortion landscape, a group that some industry analysts compare to the much more well-known Alphv group. However, programming similarities do not align with the statements made by a group member during our interview. The program used by Embargo…
FBI Cyber Lead Urges Potential LockBit Victims to Contact Internet Crime Complaint Center
FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran on June 5 highlighted the Bureau’s “ongoing disruption” of the LockBit ransomware group and its affiliates, and urged potential victims to contact the Bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The Bureau now has more than 7,000 LockBit decryption keys in its possession, Vorndran said in a keynote at the…
Update: London NHS hospitals revert to paper records after cyber-attack
Denis Campbell and Dan Milmo report: A cyber-attack thought to have been carried out by a Russian group has forced London NHS hospitals to resurrect long-discarded paper records systems in which porters hand-deliver blood test results because IT networks are disrupted. Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust (GSTT) has gone back to using paper, rather than computers, to…