Brian Krebs reports: Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that digital intruders had broken in by probing its…
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Swiss info security body warns of ransomware attacks against businesses
Maria Nikolova reports: Switzerland’s Reporting and Analysis Centre for Information Assurance (MELANI) today issued a warning regarding a high number of ransomware attacks against Swiss businesses over the past weeks. In recent weeks, MELANI / GovCERT has dealt with more than a dozen ransomware cases in which unknown perpetrators encrypted the systems of Swiss SMEs and…
Iranian hackers have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world
Catalin Cimpanu reports: 2019 will be remembered as the year when major security bugs were disclosed in a large number of enterprise VPN servers, such as those sold by Pulse Secure, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Citrix. Read more on ZDNet.
Toll admits some customers still suffering delays on day 18 of ransomware attack
Chris Keall reports that some of Toll’s customers are still suffering delays 18 days after it was hit by a ransomware attack. On February 5, Sergiu Gatlan had reported that the Australian transportation and logistics company that systems across multiple sites and business units had been encrypted by Mailto ransomware (dubbed “NetWalker” by the ransomware authors)….
WV: Charleston Lube Partners, LLC Provides Notice of a Payment Card Security Event
Via PR Newswire: Charleston Lube Partners, LLC, the independent owner and operator of Quaker Steak & Lube®, Charleston, West Virginia (“restaurant”), provides notice of an event that may affect the security of payment card information used by certain customers at this restaurant between February 14, 2019 and August 19, 2019. What Happened? Charleston Lube Partners, LLC utilizes a point of…
Relation Insurance Discloses Data Security Incident
The following is part of Relation Insurance’s disclosure notice, published February 13 on their site: What Happened? Relation Insurance Inc. (“Relation”) provides insurance brokerage services working with certain insurance providers, and we are issuing notice of a recent event that may impact the privacy of certain personal information. To date, Relation has not received any…