Kate Goodwin reports: A global pandemic has left life sciences companies with giant targets on their backs for cyberattacks. As of December, at least six pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., U.K. and South Korea working on COVID-19 treatments were targeted by North Korean hackers, according to the Wall Street Journal. The hackers were out for sensitive…
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TR: Adim Adim hacked
The following is not a great translation, so what you need to know is that a volunteer Turksih organization that promotes charitable donations through events like marathons, was hacked. From Adim Adim’s web site: Volunteers In Pursuit of Goodness and Their Donors Who Are With Them At Every Step … As we have informed you…
Lot-et-Garonne firefighters victims of a cyber attack
LaDepeche.fr reports (translation): After the hospitals, the firefighters! Without faith or law, wherever they work, from France or abroad, the new IT thugs have no mercy by now attacking vital emergency and health services in our region. country. The Lot-et-Garonne firefighters have had a bitter experience since the start of the week. “We were victims of a” ransomware…
Ca: Personal data of 50,000 N.S. health-care workers may have been compromised by Accellion breach
Reports concerning an incident involving Nova Scotia Health Employees’ Pension Plan (NSHEPP) in Canada are part of the Accellion breach that has been in the news since January. NSHEPP has posted a number of notices and updates on their site. It is not yet confirmed whether their data was actually exfiltrated by the attackers or…
American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association hack impacted more than 161,000
The American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association, a non-profit organization in Virginia that provides insurance and benefits services to the military community, is notifying 161,621 individuals of a hacking incident. On January 29, AAFMAA became aware of suspicious activity on its system. Their investigation revealed that an unauthorized party had first gained access to certain…
Hackers obtain sensitive data on UK aid projects overseas
Ben Quinn reports: Hackers have obtained sensitive documents relating to British aid projects, including details related to projects funded by a secretive national security fund. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and experts from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), an arm of GCHQ, are investigating how a “third party” came to obtain the data. Read…