Tristan Navera reports: A cyber attack on a vendor hobbled sales at the parent of DSW Shoe Warehouse in September, the company disclosed this week. Columbus-based Designer Brands Inc. (NYSE: DBI) reported in its earnings call this week that a vendor was hit with a ransomware attack and had to voluntarily shut down its systems….
Category: Malware
Air France-KLM victim of cyber attack – media
ABM FN-Dow Jones reports (translated): Hackers have tried to break into Air France-KLM. The NOS reported this on Thursday based on insiders. […] The attack appears to be intended to gather intelligence for a possible follow-up attack, NOS says on the basis of a confidential document. Read more on Beursgorilla.nl. h/t, @Chum1ng0
Maine disability services provider notifies 3,000 patients after thwarting ransomware attack
Here’s another incident where patients are not being offered any mitigation services — in this case, presumably because the entity and its external IT vendor could not find any evidence that ransomware threat actors had ever accessed, copied, or exfiltrated any data. Employment Specialists of Maine is a service provider for adults with mental health…
Hacking Group Dropping Malware Via Facebook, Cloud Services
Akshaya Asokan reports: “Molerats,” an Arabic-speaking advanced persistent threat group that has been targeting victims mainly in the Middle East for several years, is now abusing Facebook accounts, as well as other cloud-based platforms, to deploy previously undocumented malware as part of an ongoing espionage campaign, according to security firm Cybereason. The hacking group, which is…
Cyberattack cost UVM Medical Center $1.5 million a day
Kate Jickling reports: The October cyberattack cost the University of Vermont Medical Center $1.5 million a day in increased expenses and lost revenue, hospital president Stephen Leffler said Tuesday. That “back of the envelope” calculation doesn’t include the cost of getting the system back up and running, he told reporters. Forty-two days have elapsed since…
Ransomware Attack Causing Major Outages to City and County Services
On December 6, TXK reported: A ransomeware (sic) cyber attack has struck city computers causing outages across Bowie and Miller Counties. According to Bowie County 202nd District Court Judge John Tidwell, “the computers at the Courthouse and BiState have been shut down today along with other agencies.” Read more on TXK Today. Today, Texarkana posted…