According to their website, The Agromart Group in Canada provides crop nutrients, seed, crop protection products, custom application and associated services to agricultural producers across Eastern Canada. Last month, they experienced a ransomware attack by the Sodinokibi/REvil threat actors. That in and of itself would be newsworthy, but then the threat actors decided to try…
Category: Breach Incidents
Sekhmet ransomware team claims to have hit international IT firm “very hard”
Sekhmet ransomware operators claim to have hit an international IT firm, Excis, “very hard.” The attack reportedly occurred on May 30, and the threat actors are pressing hard to get the firm to pay an undisclosed amount of ransom. The attack was revealed yesterday on Sekhmet’s website. We are sharing a big part of their…
Ransomware Attack Kidnaps Austrian City
Felipe Eraon reports: Malware team, NetWalker, launched a ransomware attack against the Austrian village of Weiz. This attack affected the public service system and leaked some of the stolen data from building applications and inspections. According to the cybersecurity firm, Panda Security, hackers managed to penetrate the village’s public network through phishing emails related to the…
Taiwan government database leaked on dark web
Kelvin Chen reports: It was reported on Friday (May 29) that a government database of more than 20 million Taiwanese citizens was leaked on the dark web. According to researchers at Cyble Inc., Toogod (sic) a “known and reputable actor” was found to have released the data titled, “Taiwan Whole Country Home Registry DB,” onto…
Truecaller denies database breach after details of over 45 million Indians appear on the dark web
Soumyarendra Barik reports: Personal data of 47.5 million Indians — including their phone number, service provider, name, gender, city, email, and Facebook ID, among other things — claimed to be sourced from caller ID app Truecaller is available for sale on the dark web for $1,000 (₹75,000), cybersecurity firm Cyble said. Truecaller, in a statement to MediaNama,…
Hacker Selling 80,000 Users’ Data Stolen From Cryptocurrency Wallets
IANS reports: A hacker who was behind the cyber attack on Ethereum.org is now selling data tied to key cryptocurrency wallets like Keepkey, Trezor, Ledger and online investment platform Bnktothefuture. The hacker has three large databases with information pertaining to at least 80,000 customers. This includes the customer’s email address, name, phone number, residential address…