Waqas reports: Spain’s 4th largest telecom operator MasMovil Ibercom or MasMovil is the latest victim of the infamous Revil ransomware gang (aka Sodinokibi) On its official blog accessible via Tor browser, as seen by Hackread.com, the ransomware operator claims to have “downloaded databases and other important data” belonging to the telecom giant. Read more on HackRead.
Category: Business Sector
Nl: De Mandemakers group: ‘despite adequate security’ still a victim
Kitchen and furniture seller De Mandemakers Groep (DMG) has fallen victim to hackers. They managed to block a large part of the IT systems. DMG has reported the incident to the police and reported the incident to the Dutch Data Protection Authority. Cybersecurity company Fox-IT is helping the company with the settlement of the attack and strengthening the…
Microsoft finds Netgear router bugs enabling corporate breaches
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Attackers could use critical firmware vulnerabilities discovered by Microsoft in some NETGEAR router models as a stepping stone to move laterally within enterprise networks. The security flaws impact DGN2200v1 series routers running firmware versions before v1.0.0.60 and compatible with all major DSL Internet service providers. They allow unauthenticated attackers to access unpatched routers’ management…
Western Digital to provide recovery services for hacked NAS drives
Western Digital has announced a new trade-in programme to help customers mitigate the effects of a mass malware attack that saw terabytes of data wiped from users’ NAS drives overnight. Those who lost data as a result of the hack will be able to benefit from Western Digital’s data recovery services, as well as a…
JP: Japan Airport Refueling Co. discloses ransomware incident; refueling work not impacted
Security NEXT reports that Japan Airport Refueling, which provides aircraft refueling services, experienced a ransomware attack. A machine translation of the report says, in part, that the company’s internal network failed in the early morning of June 21. Investigation confirmed that it was a ransomware attack, and the company received a ransom demand to decrypt…
Facebook sues four Vietnamese nationals for hijacking accounts
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Social networking giant Facebook has filed two lawsuits today against two suspected criminal groups that abused its advertising platform for their own gains. The first lawsuit was filed against four Vietnamese nationals for hijacking user accounts and the second against a US company for running an e-commerce bait-and-switch scam. Read more on…