Dan Patterson reports: Hackers have targeted companies that distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to a degree previously unreported, according to research from IBM Security. Starting last year, attackers attempted to access sensitive information about the vaccine’s “cold chain” distribution system. IBM Security said the phishing attack targeted 44 companies in 14 countries across Europe, North America, South America…
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NL: Nearly a hundred notary offices victim of hacker
Anton Mous reports: 96 notary offices have become the victims of a cyber attack. On Friday morning, April 16, ICT supplier Managed IT from Nieuwegein was hacked by an unknown attacker. As a precaution, the company and a number of notarial software suppliers have shut down their servers and databases. The cyber attack was spotted last Friday…
Avaddon starts dumping data from Malta’s Nationalist Party
Marco A. De Felice reports: The Avaddon ransomware group has managed to enter the IT structure of the Partit Nazzjonalista ( Nationalist Party of Malta). Last night the cybercriminals , after the non-payment of the ransom, decided to publish a first part of the exfiltrated documents on their website. Avaddon publishes a note claiming to be in possession of the…
Data leak exposes cops’ donations to Kyle Rittenhouse following Kenosha shooting
Meaghan Ellis reports: A data breach of a Christian crowdfunding website has uncovered donations police officers and public officials made to Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen accused of murdering two Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake. According to The Guardian, the transparency group known as Distributed Denial of…
Data breach of thousands of Chattanooga Library card owners revealed
Karen Aguilar reports: The Chattanooga Library said the private information of around 5,000 library cardholders had been exposed online since October 2020, an IT team they work with catching the mistake last week. “We will go to the mat to protect somebody’s privacy we absolutely will, and so for this to happen is really, really…
IT: Threat actors attack ATC website, demand ransom
Alessia Gaglianese reports (translation): The Turin Territorial Housing Agency (ATC) website has been hacked. The criminals demanded a ransom of $ 700,000. It was the agency’s IT technicians who discovered that something was wrong with the telematic system. According to the first reconstructions, these are professional foreign hackers. Read more: sicurezza.net According to its web…