Wycliffe Musalia reports that Kenya’s Naivas supermarket chain in Kenya has been the victim of a ransomware incident, but the chain assures customers that certain customer data such as payment card data was never at risk because it is not stored on their system. From the news report, it sounds like the company notified law…
Category: Malware
Russian hackers exfiltrated data from from Capita over a week before outage
Kevin Beaumont writes: Capita have finally admitted a data breach, but still do not think they need to disclose key details of the incident to customers, regulators, impacted parties and investors. So in this piece we shall dig into the details using open source intelligence, and prove Capita was penetrated by Black Basta ransomware group using…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
Cementos Bío-Bío S.A attacked by BlackByte Cementos Bio-Bio S.A, a Chilean cement company, was added to BlackBye’s leaks site on April 9. DataBreaches found no notice of any incident on the main cbb.cl website, but the cbbexpress.cl customer portal had a notice about interruptions: “At this time we are having intermittencies with our services. If…
Ex-Conti members and FIN7 devs team up to push new Domino malware
Lawrence Abrams reports: Ex-Conti ransomware members have teamed up with the FIN7 threat actors to distribute a new malware family named ‘Domino’ in attacks on corporate networks. Domino is a relatively new malware family consisting of two components, a backdoor named ‘Domino Backdoor,’ which in turn drops a ‘Domino Loader’ that injects an info-stealing malware…
Daggerfly Cyberattack Campaign Hits African Telecom Services Providers
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Telecommunication services providers in Africa are the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-linked threat actor at least since November 2022. The intrusions have been pinned on a hacking crew tracked by Symantec as Daggerfly, and which is also tracked by the broader cybersecurity community as Bronze Highland and Evasive Panda….
State’s second-largest health insurer suffers cybersecurity attack
Jessica Bartlett reports: The state’s second-largest insurer suffered large technical outages due to a cybersecurity ransomware incident. Point32Health, the parent company for Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, said in a memo on its website that it identified a ransomware incident on Monday, affecting the systems it uses to service members, accounts, brokers…