Lawrence Abrams reports: Canon has suffered a ransomware attack that impacts numerous services, including Canon’s email, Microsoft Teams, USA website, and other internal applications. BleepingComputer has been tracking a suspicious outage on Canon’s image.canon cloud photo and video storage service resulting in the loss of data for users of their free 10GB storage feature. Read…
Category: Malware
Netwalker ransomware earned $25 million in just five months
Lawrence Abrams reports: The Netwalker ransomware operation has generated a total of $25 million in ransom payments since March 1st according to a new report by McAfee. Netwalker is a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation that began operating in late 2019, where affiliates are enlisted to distribute the ransomware and infect victims in return for a 60-70% cut of ransom payments….
Cyber insurance: The moral quandary of paying criminals who stole your data
Asha Barbaschow reports: Earlier this year, a club with around 70,000 members found itself in a pickle: Pay a ransom or risk the personal information of those members being exposed. In this scenario, the club paid the ransomware. It was decided that the financial hit of paying outstripped the reputational harm to that business. They…
AU: Aged care operator’s resident data stolen and dumped in ransomware attack
Speaking of ransomware attacks in Australia, Emma Koehn reports: ASX-listed aged care operator Regis has been hit by an international cyber attack that has led to the release of sensitive personal data, adding to the woes of the company which is battling a coronavirus outbreak at one of its Melbourne centres. The $400 million operator…
Ca: Ransomware attack on MSP failed, but attackers exfiltrated some data — Pivot Technology Solutions
Canadian managed service provider Pivot Technology Solutions was the victim of a ransomware attack in June. The good news is that the ransomware did not encrypt their systems. The bad news is that the attack resulted in some data of U.S. employees and consultants being exfiltrated. So far, I haven’t found any statement as to…
Author of FastPOS malware revealed, pleads guilty
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A 30-year-old Moldovan man pleaded guilty on Friday for creating FastPOS, a strain of malware designed to infect computers processing payment card data from Point-of-Sale (POS) systems. Valerian Chiochiu, known in the hacking world as “Onassis” (after the Greek shipping magnate who married Jacqueline Kennedy), was part of the Infraud criminal organization….