Tim Starks reports: CNA, one of the U.S.’s top providers of cybersecurity insurance, is struggling with a cyberattack that prompted it to disconnect its systems from its network. Its website hasn’t been working for the last couple days, and at press time displayed the message, “The attack caused a network disruption and impacted certain CNA…
Category: Malware
FBI sends out private industry alert about Mamba ransomware
A Private Industry Alert (PIA) was sent out from the FBI about Mamba ransomware on March 23. As Catalin Cimpanu reports about Alert Number CU-000143-MW The US Federal Bureau of Investigations has sent out this week a private industry notification to US organizations warning about attacks carried out by the Mamba ransomware gang, along with basic instructions…
KY: City of Frankfort has IT network hacked
Austin Horn reports: The City of Frankfort says it learned of a hack to its servers on Sunday. Two separate sources with knowledge of the situation — including one city employee — told The State Journal that the city is being held ransom. Both spoke on condition of anonymity. After an inquiry from the newspaper,…
CZ: Railway administration was attacked by hackers, operations not endangered
Translation from ceskatelevize.cz: The railway administration has been facing a cyber attack since last week, Deník N reported . The state organization, which provides traffic on the railways, assured that it was not affected by the attack or traffic safety. The attack followed other previous incidents that targeted state organizations or ministries. According to the spokesman of the Railway Administration…
Ca: Sierra Wireless Announces Ransomware Attack
VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) (TSX: SW), the world’s leading IoT solutions provider, today announced that it discovered it was the subject of a ransomware attack on its internal IT systems on March 20, 2021. Once the company learned of the attack, its IT and operations teams immediately implemented measures to counter the…
Transport NSW documents posted on dark web after Accellion hack
Anton Nilsson reports that threat actors who have been dumping files from Accellion clients have started dumping files from Transport NSW: Massive amounts of sensitive NSW government documents have been published online by hackers attempting to extort the authorities for cash. The sporadic leaks to the dark web have continued in the past few days…