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ZA: Government to replace Sassa grant cards after security breach

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Dissent

BusinessTech staff report: Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu says that government is in talks with stakeholders to replace South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) cards after a security breach, first reported in 2019. Responding to a written parliamentary Q&A in December, Zulu said that Sassa cards are actually bank cards issued by the South…

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Lithuania’s public health body comes under cyber attack; infected emails contain emotet trojan

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Dissent

Jūratė Damulytė and Ignas Jačauskas of BNS report a Trojan.Emotet virus is making the rounds in email attachments sent to Lithuanian government institutions, ministries, and individuals who were contacted by National Public Health Centre (NVSC) specialists whose accounts were first infected by the virus. Lithuania’s National Public Health Centre (NVSC) came under a cyber attack…

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FR: Grand Annecy hit by malware attack

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Dissent

And here we go… yet another French city and agglomeration have been hit by malware  Is any French news outlet going to find out and tell us what kind of malware and what the ransom demands are, if there are demands?  Translation from Le Dauphiné follows: During the night of December 27 to 28, the…

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Cornelia, Georgia hit by ransomware attack on the day after Christmas

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Dissent

Posted on: December 29, 2020 by the City of Cornelia: City of Cornelia Ransomware Incident The City of Cornelia is dealing with a ransomware incident that began on December 26. We have anticipated situations such as this and, out of an abundance of caution, we have taken down our network while we investigate and restore our…

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FR: La Rochelle: the computer networks of the City and the Agglomeration inaccessible due to a cyber attack

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Dissent

On Dec. 18, this site noted that services in Évreux and the agglomeration were shut down after a cyberattack. Today, it’s the computer networks of  La Rochelle and the Agglomeration.  And as with the previous report, city functions have been disrupted.   Are these cities being hit by the same threat actor(s)? If so, who, and…

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Finnish Politicians’ Email Accounts Targeted by Cyber Attack

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Dissent

Leo Laikola reports: Finland’s parliament was the target of a cyber attack during the autumn that compromised the security of an unspecified number of politicians’ email accounts, parliament’s information office said Monday. Read more on Bloomberg.

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