From the Institute for Security & Technology: A Comprehensive Framework for Action Ransomware is no longer just a financial crime; it is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. This is not a problem that any one entity can solve. Over 60 experts from industry, government, law…
Category: Malware
Sekurak blog interviewed Babuk about Metropolitan DC Police attack
A blogger from Sekurak (a Polish blog) conducted a great interview with Babuk yesterday. You can read the write-up here. Here’s a snippet from it: sekurak : How did you get to the police infrastructure in Washington? Babuk : 0-day VPN. We can’t say anything else, it’s 0-day after all. sekurak : When did the Washington Police realize that…
Breached Online Ordering Platforms Expose Hundreds of Restaurants
How many of us increased our online orders from restaurants because of the pandemic? Unsurprisingly, criminals have been motivated by that to engage in even more Card Not Present (CNP) fraud. A new report by Gemini Advisory, released today, highlights the growing risks restaurants (and consumers) face. In the past 6 months, Gemini has reported…
It: BCC Roma suffers cyberattack impacting 188 branches
Banco di Credito Cooperativo (BCC Roma) is one of the largest cooperative credit banks in Italy. Now Andrea Greco reports that operations at 188 branches have been impacted by a cyberattack. BCC has posted a notice reassuring customers that although operations may be slower, the branches are operational (translation): We inform our customers that the…
IT: Hacker attack on pharmaceutical company Zambon
Federica Bigardi reports that Zambon , an Italian pharmaceutical firm, suffered a cyber attack (translation): The attack was identified and quickly isolated from Zambon’s information systems, which as a precautionary measure suspended activities at the Vicenza plant employing 217 people. Production was stopped for 5 days while the IT department investigated and resolved the attack…
Ransomware gang leaks court and prisoner files from Illinois Attorney General Office
Catalin Cimpanu has an update to a situation first reported on DataBreaches.net last week. The operators of the DopplePaymer ransomware have leaked a large collection of files from the Illinois Office of the Attorney General after negotiations have broken down and officials refused to pay a ransom demand, The Record has learned. Perhaps the most interesting…