Catalin Cimpanu reports: American networking equipment vendor Belden said it was hacked in a press release published earlier this week. Belden says the security breach took place after hackers gained access to a limited number of its file servers. Read more on ZDNet.
Category: Business Sector
Canon publicly confirms August ransomware attack, data theft
Ionut Ilascu reports: Canon has finally confirmed publicly that the cyberattack suffered in early August was caused by ransomware and that the hackers stole data from company servers. BleepingComputer was the first to report the attack after tracking a suspicious outage on the cloud photo and video storage service (image.canon) that caused users to lose files. Read…
Sophos notifies customers of data exposure after database misconfiguration
Catalin Cimpanu reports: UK-based cyber-security vendor Sophos is currently notifying customers via email about a security breach the company suffered earlier this week. “On November 24, 2020, Sophos was advised of an access permission issue in a tool used to store information on customers who have contacted Sophos Support,” the company said in an email…
Is Rand McNally just routinely “upgrading systems” or are they dealing with an attack?
A notice on their web site says that Rand McNally is upgrading their systems: Oh really? Why didn’t their site just admit what they wrote in email: “Dear Valued Customer, Rand McNally recently discovered a disruption to certain portions of our computer network. We commenced an immediate investigation that included taking certain systems offline and…
Danish news agency Ritzau rejects ransom demand after hacker attack
And yet another news agency gets hit with ransomware — this time, though, it’s a Danish one. Associated Press reports that Ritzau “rejected” the ransom demand, but it’s more than that — they wouldn’t even read it, it seems, taking the advice of their advisors. Ritzau CEO Lars Vesterloekke couldn’t say how big the ransom…
Home Depot settles multi-state lawsuit stemming from 2014 breach
A number of states have issued press releases about how their state was part of a newly announced settlement stemming from a Home Depot breach in 2014. That breach has been covered quite a bit on this site already, as it resulted in a lot of litigation involving card issuers, credit unions, banks, and of…