Bobby Caina Calvan of AP reports: Florida officials acknowledged Friday that state servers appear to have been compromised by overseas hackers who gained entry by imbedding malicious code into networking software from a Texas-based software company, SolarWinds. Two Florida officials who have knowledge of the matter but spoke on condition of anonymity because they were…
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Microsoft says it identified 40+ victims of the SolarWinds hack, and more bad news…
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Microsoft said it identified more than 40 of its customers that installed trojanized versions of the SolarWinds Orion platform and where hackers escalated intrusions with additional, second-stage payloads. The OS maker said it was able to discover these intrusions using data collected by Microsoft Defender antivirus product, a free antivirus product built…
UK: People’s Energy data breach affects all 270,000 customers
Zoe Kleinman reports: The company People’s Energy has contacted all its 270,000 current customers, following a data breach. Co-founder Karin Sode told BBC News an entire database had been stolen by hackers and included information on previous customers. Data stolen included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, tariff and energy meter IDs, she said….
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
Natasha Bertrand and Eric Wolff report: The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, officials directly familiar with the matter said. On Thursday, DOE…
Iranian nation-state hackers linked to Pay2Key ransomware
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Iranian-backed hacking group Fox Kitten has been linked to the Pay2Key ransomware operation that has recently started targeting organizations from Israel and Brazil. “We estimate with medium to high confidence that Pay2Key is a new operation conducted by Fox Kitten, an Iranian APT group that began a new wave of attacks in…
Cyberattack hits Israeli companies, with Iran reportedly the likely culprit
Oops. I missed this one last week. Stuart Winer reports: A major cyberattack earlier this month hit dozens of Israeli logistics companies, with hackers making off with information from servers, according to a report of the incident by one of the victims filed Sunday to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The attack hit Amital Data,…