Sergiu Gatlan reports: San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach after two of its websites, SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com, were hacked during March 2020. According to a notice of data breach sent to all SFO Airport commission employees via an internal memo, the attackers may have gained access to the login credentials of users registered on the two…
Category: Malware
Suspecting Cyber Attack, Mediterranean Shipping Company Reports Network Outage – Update
Mike Schuler reports: Mediterranean Shipping Company says it has experienced a network outage and it cannot rule out the possibility of a cyber attack, the company said Friday. The outage began in one of MSC’s data centers in Geneva, Switzerland and the company shut down its servers in response. In an update late Friday, the…
Gambling company to set aside $30 million to deal with cyber-attack fallout
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Online betting company SBTech will have to place $30 million in escrow as insurance for covering the fallout from a suspected ransomware infection. The company agreed to do so as part of re-negotiated acquisition terms with Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corporation (DEAC), a blank-check company that acquired SBTech and rival platform DraftKings and…
A Hacker’s Scheme is “Forthright;” Thus, No Computer Fraud Coverage for Ransomware Attacks
From the good-to-know dept., Timothy A. Carroll and Joshua A. Mooney of White and Williams LLP write: A computer hacker may engage in malicious and criminal conduct, but that doesn’t mean that the conduct is “fraudulent.” In G&G Oil Company v. Continental Western Ins. Co., 2020 Ind. App. LEXIS 126 (Ind. Ct. App. Mr. 31, 2020),…
DoppelPaymer team leaks Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, documents after Visser Precision refuses to pay
Shaun Nichols and Gareth Corfield report: Internal confidential documents belonging to some of the largest aerospace companies in the world have been stolen from an industrial contractor and leaked online. The data was pilfered and dumped on the internet by the criminals behind the DoppelPaymer Windows ransomware, in retaliation for an unpaid extortion demand. Read…
London firm on standby to test therapeutics for COVID19 notifies volunteers about March attack by Maze Team
Hammersmith Medicines Research (HMR) in London takes pride in their record as specialists in pharmacology phase 1 and early phase 2 clinical trials — the kinds of trials that are needed before new medications can be approved for use by the public — and the kinds of trials that will be needed if new therapeutics…