Matt Sheehan reports: International insurance brokerage firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co has confirmed that it was the target of a ransomware attack on September 26th. The firm said the incident impacted a “limited portion” of its internal systems, and does not expect it to have a material impact on its operations or financial condition….
Category: Malware
Swatch shuts down some technology systems after cyberattack
Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi reports: Swatch Group UHR.S shut down some of its technology systems after detecting a cyberattack over the weekend, the world’s biggest watchmaker said on Tuesday. “Swatch Group confirms that it has identified clear signs of a developing cyber-attack on some of its IT systems during the weekend,” the company said in an emailed…
The Cyber-Avengers Protecting Hospitals From Ransomware
Sonner Kehrt has an article on CTI that begins: It was early February when Ohad Zaidenberg first started noticing malicious emails and files disguised as information about Covid. He’s a cyber intelligence researcher based in Israel, and they were the sort of schemes he encountered all the time—benign-looking messages that trick people into giving someone network…
No, Netwalker didn’t attack Chubb Insurance — or Chubb Fire and Security
Update and Correction: Last night, DataBreaches.net reported that Netwalker threat actors claimed to have attacked Chubb Fire and Security. My reporting created more confusion than clarity, so I am removing the post altogether. Let me try to be clearer: Chubb Insurance has nothing to do with the current claims by Netwalker threat actors. Netwalker claims…
Ransomware Threat Actors Dump Data on Clark County School District Employees and Students
Tawnell D. Hobbs reports: A hacker published documents containing Social Security numbers, student grades and other private information stolen from a large public-school district in Las Vegas after officials refused a ransom demanded in return for unlocking district computer servers. The illegal release late last week of sensitive information from the Clark County School District…
Fr: CMA CGM confirms ransomware attack
Cichen Shen and James Baker report: CMA CGM, the French container line, is working to reverse the impact of a ransomware attack that has shut down many of its online services. The cyber attack was launched using Ragnar Locker, a data encryption malware that has affected companies elsewhere. It is similar to an incident involving…