Daniele Lepido reports: A group of hackers executed a ransomware attack Wednesday on Italian menswear premium brand Boggi Milano, according to people familiar with the matter and documents seen by Bloomberg. … The hacker group called Ragnarok said on its dark web blog that it targeted Boggi Milano servers and stole about 40 gigabytes of corporate…
Category: Malware
University of Maryland, Baltimore responds to Accellion breach
This week, a number of universities were added to CLOP threat actors’ dark web leak site. They appear to be linked to the Accellion breach in December and January. As a reminder, many of Accellion’s clients used a standalone server with Accellion’s software to transfer large files. The attack did not hit Accellion’s clients’ own…
DE: City administration Angermünde temporarily unavailable
The following is a translation of a notice on Angermünde’s web site: The city administration of Angermünde is initially closed for all administrative services until April 7th, 2021. This affects all administrative areas including the citizens’ office and registry office. The reason is a hacker attack that damaged the entire IT system of the administration. All administrative staff…
Cyber attack – EVK Lippstadt stops patient admission
The situation described in this news report is exactly what all countries must cooperate to prevent — a hospital has been unable to care for patients due to a cyberattack. Patients are being diverted. Hellweg Radio reports (translation): The Evangelical hospital in Lippstadt does not accept any more patients until further notice. This is due to…
Hackers threaten shipping firm ECU Worldwide with data leak
Nate Tabak reports: A ransomware gang is threatening to release a massive trove of data stolen from shipping firm ECU Worldwide more than a month after a cyberattack caused serious disruptions to its online platforms. The Mount Locker ransomware gang claimed in a post to its leak site on Sunday that it had taken 2…
Ransomware: A Perfect Storm
Ransomware: A Perfect Storm James Sullivan and James Muir Emerging Insights, 29 March 2021 This Emerging Insights paper calls for a new set of policy interventions to reduce the threat from ransomware. Options range from introducing legislation to prevent ransom payments, to tackling the use of penetration testing tools used in ransomware attacks, to national-level mechanisms…