From Europol: A high-value cybercrime suspect has been added to the EU Most Wanted list. The individual, a Ukrainian national, is believed to be a leading figure in an organised crime network responsible for the 2019 ransomware attack against a major Norwegian aluminium company, as well as a series of other global cyber-attacks. The fugitive is…
Category: Non-U.S.
China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents
Paul Kunert reports: Beijing will soon expect Chinese network operators to ‘fess up to serious cyber incidents within an hour of spotting them – or risk penalties for dragging their feet. From November 1, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) will enforce its new National Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Management Measures, a sweeping set of rules that tighten…
US national charged in Finnish psychotherapy center extortion
Alexander Martin reports: Finnish prosecutors have charged a second individual — U.S. national Daniel Lee Newhard — with attempted extortion of the Vastaamo psychotherapy center. The Finnish Prosecution Service announced on Monday it had charged Newhard with aiding and abetting attempted aggravated extortion. It said the suspect, a 28-year-old, denies the offense. Officials did not…
Union urges government intervention with 100,000 jobs at risk after JLR cyber attack
ITV News reports: Tens of thousands of employees who work in the Jaguar Land Rover supply chain are at risk of being laid off after the car manufacturer paused its production line following a cyber attack. The UK manufacturer was forced to shut down its systems on August 31 after becoming aware of a cyberattack…
China’s Great Firewall suffers its biggest leak ever as 500GB of source code and docs spill online — censorship tool has been sold to three different countries
Luke James reports: Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online, including packaging repos and operational runbooks used to build and maintain China’s national traffic filtering system. The files appear to…
Exclusive: High-end fashion retailers Gucci, Balenciaga, Brioni, and Alexander McQueen hit by Salesforce attacks
Those readers who aren’t A-listers (including yours truly) may never have heard of Kering, but you may have heard of their high-end fashion brands: Gucci. Yves Saint Laurent. Bottega Veneta. Balenciaga. Alexander McQueen. Brioni. It is some of those fashion brands that are the subject of this post as they fell prey to attacks by…