As if we didn’t have enough breaches that start by compromising an employee’s email account, now there’s more to worry about. Imagine that despite training your employees to be careful, and despite using updated AV or other software to detect nasties, a threat actor could deliver malware-laden emails directly into your employees’ inboxes. Will employees…
Category: Malware
Ransomware Group Turns to Facebook Ads
Brian Krebs reports: It’s bad enough that many ransomware gangs now have blogs where they publish data stolen from companies that refuse to make an extortion payment. Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. The Ragnar Locker threat actors…
Melbourne firm denies data stolen during ransomware attack
Sam Varghese reports: A Melbourne firm which suffered a hit from cyber criminals using the Windows REvil ransomware has denied that any data was exfiltrated from its site, as was reported in these columns. A spokesperson from Nexia Australia and New Zealand, a network of solutions-focused accountancy and consultancy firms, said the attack had taken…
Damien Bancal
Damien Bancal reports (translation follows): I revealed to you, last November 3, the announced piracy of the pharmaceutical laboratory Expanscience (Mustela…). A second cyberattack, in four months, posted by a group of ransomware operators. After Maze , Egregor explained that he had invited himself to the company’s IT. On November 9, I discovered that the Bailly Creat lab, a French pharmaceutical laboratory specializing…
GA: JIA sends notices to those potentially affected by ransomware attack
Lauren McDonald reports: Jekyll Island Authority has sent notices to individuals whose data may have been compromised in a recent ransomware attack. The hackers could have had access to data affecting more than 7,000 individuals and companies who do business with the authority, according to a post on JIA’s website offering an update on the…
Compal, the second-largest laptop manufacturer in the world, hit by ransomware
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Compal, a Taiwanese electronics company that builds laptops for some of the world’s largest computer brands, suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend. Responsible for the breach is believed to be the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang, according to a screenshot of the ransom note shared by Compal employees with Yahoo Taiwan reporters. Read…