The Korea Times reports: South Korean fashion and retail conglomerate E-Land Group said Sunday it has suspended operations at nearly half of its stores in the country due to a ransomware attack. The group said its corporate network system was attacked by ransomware early in the morning. Such a malware attack has forced 23 of…
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Nearly $20 million stolen from the DeFi protocol Pickle Finance
Tanya reports: Another liquidity mining project fell victim to the hack attack and lost about $20 million of users’ funds in DAI tokens. The attacker exploited the vulnerability of Pickle Finance smart contract called DAI PickleJar using fake swaps. Notably, the hacker chose to avoid a flash loan scheme used in most similar incidents recently….
GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services
Brian Krebs reports: Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. […] This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov. 13, with an attack on cryptocurrency…
CT: Griffin Hospital website taken down in major ransomware incident
Alexander Soule reports that the Managed.com ransomware attack has indirectly impacted Griffin Hospital, although thankfully, no patient data was involved: Griffin Health has cobbled together an alternative website at griffinhealthct.org while it deals with the issue, with the telephone switchboard remaining operable at 203-735-7421. Read more on MSN.com. So far, we have no data on how…
French newspaper crippled by ransomware attack
Le Monde, in conjunction with AFP, reports that the French daily, the Paris-Normandy has been the victim of what is reportedly a ransomware attack: The Paris-Normandy daily is the victim of a cyberattack which has prevented it from updating its website since Wednesday and disrupted its paper editions, we learned, Thursday, November 19, from the daily. “We can’t update the website…
Hanna Andersson, Salesforce ink deal to settle CCPA data breach class action
Sara Merken reports: Hanna Andersson LLC and Salesforce.com Inc have reached a proposed agreement with plaintiffs to resolve class claims related to a 2019 data breach, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement. The litigation, composed of two consolidated cases against the children’s apparel retailer and cloud technology services provider, was one…