Justin Hendry reports: Media monitoring provider Isentia has suffered a “cyber security incident” that is affecting its flagship intelligence and insights service. The company said in a financial filing on Tuesday that it is “urgently investigating” the incident, which is “disrupting services within its SaaS platform Mediaportal”. Read more on iTnews. h/t, @Chum1ng0
Category: Malware
Steelcase furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: In an 8-K form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Steelcase has disclosed that they were the victim of a cyberattack on October 22nd, 2020. On October 22, 2020, Steelcase Inc. (the “Company”) detected a cyberattack on its information technology systems. The Company promptly implemented a series of containment measures to address…
Enel Group, cyber attack: NetWalker is ready to publish the first data
Marco A. De Felice aka @amvinfe writes: The NetWalker Ransomware Group gives the Enel Group seven days to pay the ransom and get back 4.54 TB of data stolen during the cyber attack last June. In a note released in the hours following the June 7 cyber attack, the multinational said it had managed to…
Another Noida sweets manufacturer attacked by ransomware
Tanmayee Tyagi reports: Merely a month after Haldiram Snacks Private Limited corporate office in Noida suffered a ransomware attack, the servers of another Noida-based sweets manufacturing company were hacked and their data was encrypted in a different format that that which the company uses. According to the company, the incident took place on the afternoon…
Update: Has Guilford Technical Community College notified more than 43,000 students of data breach?
On September 19, DataBreaches.net reported that Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC) in North Carolina had apparently become a ransomware victim of DoppelPaymer on September 13. But on October 6, GTCC was no longer listed on the threat actors’ dedicated leak site. The removal of a victim’s name often indicates that the victim had a change…
Press Trust of India services disrupted by LockBit ransomware attack
Business Line reports: The Press Trust of India’s computer servers suffered a massive ransomware attack, disrupting operations and the delivery of news to hundreds of subscribers across India for several hours, before they were restored after an all-night effort by engineers, a company spokesperson said on Sunday. The attack by the ransomware, which identified itself…