Mario Zeko reports (translation): “The IT servers of the municipality of Braunau am Inn were the target of a hacker attack,” confirmed Mayor Johannes Waidbacher (ÖVP) and city office director Andreas Reiter of the “Krone” yesterday. Who is behind the attack is just as unclear as the details of the crime. “The responsible authorities were informed…
Category: Malware
NL: ‘Nightmare’ for the municipality of Hof van Twente: all computer systems down due to a cyber attack
deVolkskrant reports (translated): Municipality of Hof van Twente has fallen victim to a cyber attack. All computer systems of the municipality were shut down by the attack, the data stored on the servers was destroyed. This also includes privacy-sensitive information from residents, according to the municipality. It is unclear who the perpetrators are and what the motive may…
Firm that built NHS Nightingale Hospital hit by cyber attack
Charlotte Regen reports: A Walsall construction business has fallen victim to a cybersecurity attack. RMD Kwikform, said it is investigating the security breach, which happened in November. Read more on BirminghamLive. The threat actors known as REvil (Sodinokibi) claim “Absolutely all servers and working computers of the company are hacked and encrypted. There was a…
Police arrest two in data theft cyberattack on Leonardo defense corp
Lawrence Abrams reports: Italian police have arrested two people allegedly for using malware to steal 10 GB of confidential data and military secrets from defense company Leonardo S.p.A. Leonardo is one of the world’s largest defense contractors, with 30% of the company owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Ransomware gangs are now cold-calling victims if they restore from backups without paying
Earlier this week, DataBreaches.net reported that a Georgia dental group was surprised to get a phone call from threat actors informing them that their files had been exfiltrated by the ransomware threat actors. It seems that when they had detected anomalies, they wiped the server and reinstalled from backup, and perhaps never noticed any “read…
A rough week in ransomware….
The following are just a few of the entities hit by ransomware attacks this week: USNR LLC is a manufacturing firm in Woodland, Washington. On their site, they describe themselves as “the world’s largest, most comprehensive supplier of equipment and technologies for the wood processing industry.” And according to a notification they sent, on September…