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SG: Undertaking by StarMed Specialist Centre Pte Ltd

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Dissent

The Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore announced a new undertaking this week.  The incident that led to the investigation was a ransomware attack on a medical entity, and findings included that the entity had left RDP open and had weak login credentials, among other concerns. The undertaking was to get them to harden their…

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Update to Chatham County ransomware attack

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Dissent

There’s an update to a previously reported ransomware attack by DoppelPaymer threat actors on Chatham County, North Carolina.  Read the update in Courier-Tribune. They report that the ransomware entered the county network through a phishing email with a malicious attachment. In related news, the News & Observer reports that the ransom demand had been worth…

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Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certification giant hit by ransomware

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: UL LLC, better known as Underwriters Laboratories, has suffered a ransomware attack that encrypted its servers and caused them to shut down systems while they recover. […] BleepingComputer has learned that UL suffered a ransomware attack last weekend that encrypted devices in their data center. Read more on BleepingComputer.

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Kroger reports Accellion data breach affecting pharmacy records, associate HR data

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Dissent

Updated March 9: This incident  subsequently appeared on HHS’s public breach tool as having been reported to HHS on February 19 and impacting 368,100 patients. Brian Planalp reports: Kroger is informing some customers and associates that a third-party software company it uses for data services recently suffered a data breach. Kroger’s own IT systems were not…

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Vendée: the Bénéteau company victim of a cyberattack

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Dissent

Philippe Rey-Gorez reports (translation): The Bénéteau boat company, headquartered in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, Vendée, is the victim of a cyberattack , its communications department announced on Friday evening. This attack was detected overnight Thursday through Friday by the company’s security system. As soon as its alarms were triggered, the service immediately shut down the networks. This is a protective measure to prevent…

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Cyber ​​attack: Afnor admits to being confronted with Ryuk ransomware

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Dissent

Valéry Marchive reports (translation): Ironically, when the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced, this Thursday, February 18 at noon, the allocation of one billion euros , as part of the recovery plan, to cybersecurity , Afnor was shutting down the services it exhibits on the Internet, starting with its website. […] Reached by telephone, on his initiative, a…

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