Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hundreds of bookstores across France, Belgium, and the Netherlands have had their operations disrupted this week after a ransomware attack crippled the IT systems of TiteLive, a French company that operates a SaaS platform for book sales and inventory management. The incident, which took place earlier this week, has impacted bookstore chains such…
Category: Malware
Trucking giant Forward Air reports ransomware data breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: Trucking giant Forward Air has disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack that allowed threat actors to access employees’ personal information. In December 2020, Forward Air suffered a ransomware attack by what was believed to be a new cybercrime gang known as Hades. This attack caused Forward Air to shut down its…
GrupoGSS data appears on the internet after what appeared to be a ransom agreement …. went nowhere?
On September 25, DataBreaches.net reported that GrupoGSS, a division of Covisian, had been the victim of a ransomware attack by Conti. In a statement to DataBreaches.net, Covisian confirmed the attack but also stated: We hereby confirm that neither GSS nor Covisian have conducted negotiations of any kind with anyone regarding the cyberattack. Their firm denial,…
Golden Entertainment notification of malware incident
As I commented this week: protected health information or medical information can be found in so many breaches involving entities that may not sound “medical” to you. Today, this site is posting two such notifications. Here’s the second one. LAS VEGAS, Sept. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Golden Entertainment, Inc. (“Golden”) is notifying individuals of an incident that…
United Health Centers of San Joaquin Valley remains publicly silent after ransomware attack
Threat actors known as Vice Society have disclosed another attack on the healthcare sector. This time, the victim is United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley in California. Lawrence Abrams of BleepingComputer reports: On August 31st, BleepingComputer was told by a source in the cybersecurity industry that United Health Centers was reeling from a…
Major European call center provider goes down in ransomware attack; not negotiating with Conti
Catalin Cimpanu reports: GSS, the Spanish and Latin America division of Covisian, one of Europe’s largest customer care and call center providers, has suffered a debilitating ransomware attack that froze a large part of its IT systems and crippled call centers across its Spanish-speaking customerbase. Call centers and automated customer support phone services for companies…