Justin Hendry reports: Media monitoring provider Isentia has suffered a “cyber security incident” that is affecting its flagship intelligence and insights service. The company said in a financial filing on Tuesday that it is “urgently investigating” the incident, which is “disrupting services within its SaaS platform Mediaportal”. Read more on iTnews. h/t, @Chum1ng0
Category: Business Sector
Steelcase furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: In an 8-K form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Steelcase has disclosed that they were the victim of a cyberattack on October 22nd, 2020. On October 22, 2020, Steelcase Inc. (the “Company”) detected a cyberattack on its information technology systems. The Company promptly implemented a series of containment measures to address…
As international travel services re-open, fraudsters resume
When COVID-19 travel restrictions eased as countries tried to re-open borders to travelers, researchers at Gemini Advisory observed that the sale of travel services — both legal and illegal — started to increase, opening up more opportunities for cybercriminals to monetize stolen payment card data. For those not really knowledgeable about travel services fraud, Gemini…
Enel Group, cyber attack: NetWalker is ready to publish the first data
Marco A. De Felice aka @amvinfe writes: The NetWalker Ransomware Group gives the Enel Group seven days to pay the ransom and get back 4.54 TB of data stolen during the cyber attack last June. In a note released in the hours following the June 7 cyber attack, the multinational said it had managed to…
Amazon sacks insiders over data leak, alerts customers
Ax Sharma reports: Amazon has recently terminated employees responsible for leaking customer data, including their email addresses, to an unaffiliated third-party in violation of company policies. The company has sent out an email announcement to affected customers following the incident. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Another Noida sweets manufacturer attacked by ransomware
Tanmayee Tyagi reports: Merely a month after Haldiram Snacks Private Limited corporate office in Noida suffered a ransomware attack, the servers of another Noida-based sweets manufacturing company were hacked and their data was encrypted in a different format that that which the company uses. According to the company, the incident took place on the afternoon…