Transport Topics reports: The Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting registration services database was compromised in March by cybercriminals in a ransomware attack, the organization announced April 28. “As a result of the attack, personal information for those who registered for TRB annual meetings from 2015-2021, may have been exposed and obtained in the attack,” TRB…
Category: Business Sector
Iranian Hackers Hit H&M Israel as Local Firms Fight New Wave of Cyberattacks
Amitai Ziv reports: Israel is in the midst of a new wave of cyberattacks, some six months after over 80 Israel companies were targeted in a string of ransom attacks that experts said were ideologically and not financially motivated. At least four Israeli companies have been hit and one nonprofit may have been targeted by…
Ripe for the Picking: Hackers Target Agribusinesses
Peter N. McClelland, CIPP/US and Allen N. Trask, III of Ward and Smith write: Agribusiness may not be an industry that the public at large often associates with data breaches and hacking, but whatever the perception may be, the agricultural sector of the American economy is increasingly a ripe target for malicious foreign actors, digital…
Ch: Cyber-attack on Swiss Cloud Computing AG
Swiss Cloud Computing AG describes itself as a leading Swiss cloud providersfor independent software vendors (ISVs) and ICT resellers. As Nau reports, they were hit with a ransomware attack last week. The type of ransomware was not reported, but approximately 6,500 of Swiss Cloud’s customers were impacted. The company has issued an updated statement that…
Hotbit cryptocurrency exchange down after hackers targeted wallets
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Cryptocurrency trading platform Hotbit has shut down all services for at least a week after a cyberattack that down several of its services on Thursday evening. Hotbit assured its roughly 2 million registered users from over 210 countries (500,000 of them using the platform’s Android app) that their cryptocurrency assets were “safe and…
Tr: Cyber attack against the company involved with the 1915 Çanakkale bridge and motorway project
DLSY, formed by four Turkish and South Korean companies: Daelim, Limak, SK E&C, and Yapı Merkezi, is responsible for the Çanakkale 1915 Bridge and Motorway Project, a project that involves 25 financial institutions from 10 countries. The partnership was hit by a cyberattack that encrypted some of the files and servers. Yurtgazetesi reports that some servers…