Philippe Rey-Gorez reports (translation): The Bénéteau boat company, headquartered in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, Vendée, is the victim of a cyberattack , its communications department announced on Friday evening. This attack was detected overnight Thursday through Friday by the company’s security system. As soon as its alarms were triggered, the service immediately shut down the networks. This is a protective measure to prevent…
Category: Business Sector
Cyber attack: Afnor admits to being confronted with Ryuk ransomware
Valéry Marchive reports (translation): Ironically, when the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced, this Thursday, February 18 at noon, the allocation of one billion euros , as part of the recovery plan, to cybersecurity , Afnor was shutting down the services it exhibits on the Internet, starting with its website. […] Reached by telephone, on his initiative, a…
Kia denies ransomware attack ‘speculation’ as it recovers from days-long outages
AP reports: Kia Motors America says it’s restoring services crippled by a computer network outage that began Saturday and which apparently affected dealers’ ability to order vehicles and parts and knocked offline a smartphone app that owners use to remotely start and warm up vehicles. Both Kia and affiliated automaker Hyundai Motor America, which reported a less severe IT outage it…
Hacker attack on Hellenic Defense Systems (Ελληνικά Αμυντικά Συστήματα (EAS) – Threat actor(s) demand ransom in cryptocurrencies
(translation): The attack was noticed a few days ago and according to a report in the newspaper “Kathimerini”, the Ministry of National Defense and the Police have been involved in the investigation into the incident, while the EYP is monitoring the developments. Initially there was concern about the possibility that the company fell victim to…
Accellion’s data breach left clients in tough position: pay extortion to criminals, or have their data dumped (with updates)
A breach involving Accellion‘s older file transfer application has left a number of its customers in the unenviable position of not only having a data breach to deal with, but with the added threat that their data and their clients’ data will be dumped by threat actors if they do not pay extortion demands. At…
Three North Korean Military Hackers Involved in Sony Pictures Hack, Wanna Cry, and Numerous Other Attacks Indicted in Wide-Ranging Scheme to Commit Cyberattacks and Financial Crimes Across the Globe
A federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently…