Business Line reports: The Press Trust of India’s computer servers suffered a massive ransomware attack, disrupting operations and the delivery of news to hundreds of subscribers across India for several hours, before they were restored after an all-night effort by engineers, a company spokesperson said on Sunday. The attack by the ransomware, which identified itself…
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WastedLocker ransomware hits Boyne Resorts ski resort operator
Lawrence Abrams reports: US-based ski and golf resort operator Boyne Resorts has suffered a cyberattack by the WastedLocker operation that has impacted company-wide reservation systems. Of special note, Abrams points out that WastedLocker has been linked to threat actors known as Evil Corp (aka the Dridex gang)– a group that has been sanctioned by the…
Insider Threat: Former employee of medical packaging company sentenced to federal prison for disrupting PPE shipments
Christopher Dobbins has been sentenced to federal prison for hacking his former employer and sabotaging their electronic shipping records, causing more than $200,000 in damage and delaying the shipment of personal protective equipment (“PPE”) during the COVID-19 pandemic. “As businesses worked to get PPE into the hands of those most in need of it, Dobbins…
Insider Threat: Vengeful Former Century 21 Employee Charged with Alleged Computer Tampering
October 21 – Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, Jr., today announced the indictment of HECTOR NAVARRO, 30, a former Human Resources systems administrator at Century 21’s Manhattan department store, for breaching the company’s network to steal and alter data. NAVARRO is charged in a New York Supreme Court indictment with Attempted Grand Larceny in the…
Japanese drug firm Shionogi hit by cyberattack and data breach
Kyodo News reports: Japanese pharmaceutical firm Shionogi & Co. said Thursday that its Taiwanese subsidiary was hit by a cyberattack earlier this month leading to a data breach, although no information regarding the novel coronavirus vaccine it is currently developing was leaked. Read more on Japan Times. The attack was announced this week by the…
Data on 2,750 partner firms of Japan Post unit leaked
Oops! JIJI reports: A computer file containing data on 2,750 business partners of a unit of Japan Post Co. has been leaked, the parent company said Tuesday. On Oct. 6, an employee of the Tokyo-based unit, Japan Post Trading Service Co., which conducts catalog-based sales of midsummer and year-end gifts handled at post offices, mistakenly…