Jonathan Greig reports: Prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina are investigating a wide-ranging cyberattack that has crippled the operations of the country’s parliament. For nearly two weeks, the website for the country’s parliament has been down, and local news outlet Nezavisne spoke with several lawmakers who said they were told to not even turn on their computers, barring them from…
Category: Government Sector
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Ransomware attacks continue This week, LockBit added four entities related to South America: Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela: Comision Nacional de Acreditación in Chile CNA is a public entity that seeks to evaluate and accredit the quality of the Institutions of Higher Education in Chile. DataBreaches sent an email to them yesterday to ask them if…
Watchdog calls for mandatory data breach notification laws in Victoria
Joseph Brookes reports: Victoria’s privacy watchdog has called for data breach notification laws in the state after a government department failed to tell people their data had been exposed in a serious breach by a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child. The former case worker, Alexander Jones, is currently serving a six-year prison sentence for…
OIG Warns USCIS Over Unauthorized Access to Systems and Information
Kylie Bielby reports: The Office of Inspector General (OIG) says U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) did not apply the access controls needed to restrict unnecessary access to its systems, networks, and information. Access controls help to limit individuals from gaining inappropriate access to systems or data. But an OIG audit has found that USCIS…
Buenos Aires legislature announces ransomware attack
Jonathan Greig reports: The legislature of Argentina’s capital city announced a ransomware attack this week, saying that its internal operating systems were compromised and WiFi connectivity was down. In several tweets, the account for the legislature of Buenos Aires said the attack began on Sunday and took down the building’s WiFi network, among other systems….
Three Iranian Nationals Charged With Engaging In Computer Intrusions And Ransomware-Style Extortion Against U.S. Critical Infrastructure Providers
NEWARK, N.J. – An indictment was unsealed today charging three Iranian nationals with allegedly orchestrating a scheme to hack into the computer networks of multiple U.S. victims, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger and National Security Division Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen announced today. As alleged in the indictment, from October 2020 through the present, Mansour…