The threat actors known as DarkSide claim to have attacked Toshiba.fr, acquiring 740 GB of data. Benoit Overstraeten and Makiko Yamazaki report: A Toshiba Corp unit said it was hacked by the DarkSide ransomware group, overshadowing an announcement of a strategic review for the Japanese conglomerate under pressure from activist shareholders to seek out suitors….
Category: Business Sector
Chemical distributor pays $4.4 million to DarkSide ransomware
Another report by Lawrence Abrams today: Chemical distribution company Brenntag paid a $4.4 million ransom in Bitcoin to the DarkSide ransomware gang to receive a decryptor for encrypted files and prevent the threat actors from publicly leaking stolen data. Brenntag is a world-leading chemical distribution company headquartered in Germany but with over 17,000 employees worldwide…
Jp: Two Salesforce incidents reportedly shut down online vaccination reservation systems, exposed other personal info
Updated May 18: See the Salesforce statement issued May 17 that says confirming that there was no data loss or breach involving the first incident described below. Yomiuri Shimbun reports: A failure in a cloud computing system provided by U.S.-based IT company Salesforce.com Inc. paralyzed COVID-19 vaccination reservation systems operated by local governments across Japan…
De: Hackers attack Energy Hamburg Radio
The announcement from Energy Hamburg radio was as follows: On Tuesday evening (May 11, 2021), hackers attacked ENERGY Hamburg and brought important IT areas to a standstill. Since then, our national ENERGY program can be heard on the Hamburg FM frequency of 97.1 MHz, the local DAB+ multiplex and the webcast. It is not yet…
De: Hackers attack Ehrmann, demand millions in ransom
Ehrmann SE is a dairy headquartered in Germany. It has production facilitites in Russia and Brazil, as well as sales offices in Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Finland and China. The multinational firm has reportedly been hit by hackers. All we really know so far, as reported yesterday by Jens Noll and Sabrina Karrer,…
Japanese Manufacturer Yamabiko Targeted by Babuk Ransomware
Phil Muncaster reports: A ransomware group that claimed to be retiring after an audacious attack on Washington DC’s police department appears to be back in action after reportedly targeting a Japanese firm. Yamabiko, a Tokyo-headquartered manufacturer of power tools and agricultural and industrial machinery, was apparently added to the data leak site used by the…