William Turton reports: Iowa-based grain cooperative New Cooperative Inc. was struck by ransomware in recent days and has shut down its computer systems as it tries to mitigate the attack. The attack occurred on or around Friday, according to Allan Liska, senior threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future Inc. The ransomware gang, which goes by the name…
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EventBuilder misconfiguration exposed event registrants’ information
If you ever used EventBuilder to register as an attendee at an event, then you may be among those whose personal information has been exposed in a leak estimated to have affected more than 100,000 people. The leak was spotted by Bob Diachenko and responsibly disclosed by Diachenko and Clario Tech according to a new report…
Fr: CMA CGM hit by another cyber attack
Sam Chambers reports: CMA CGM has been hit by another cyber attack, just under one year since its last big breach. The French containerline told customers today that it had suffered a leak of data on limited customer information involving first and last names, employer, position, email address and phone number. Read more on Splash247….
Credential leak fears raised following security breach at Travis CI
John Leyden reports: Concern is growing within the infosec community that a breach at DevOps platform vendor Travis CI might run deeper than the firm has so far been prepared to admit. Travis CI, a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for cloud platform projects, admitted to an issue in a post on its community forums while also…
Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik
Ax Sharma reports: Hacktivist collective Anonymous claims to have obtained gigabytes of data from Epik, which provides domain name, hosting, and DNS services for a variety of clients. These include the Texas GOP, Gab, Parler, and 8chan, among other right-wing sites. The stolen data has been released as a torrent. The hacktivist collective says that…
Airport Store Operator Negligence Caused Huge Damages in 2020 Hack, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges
Anne Bradley-Smith reports: Airport store operator, Paradies Shops LLC, which runs more than 850 retail and 170 restaurant locations in more than 100 airports across the United States, was negligent with employee data and caused huge damages to more than 76,000 employees after a 2020 data breach, a new class action lawsuit alleges. Ramirez, and…