At the end of October, the tiny South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu was hit by a cyberattack with devastating consequences. They officially acknowledged the incident as an attack on November 5. Now, almost a month later, they are still struggling to recover. Christopher Cottrell reports: One month after a cyber-attack brought down government servers and…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ca: Personal info of 5,000 Edmonton employees compromised in insider data breach
CTV reports: The city says staff were notified on Wednesday that employee information was the subject of a data breach last year. According to a written statement by Daryl Croft, branch manager of Open City and Technology (OCT), his branch discovered that records had been accessed by a former employee without authorization in May 2021….
NZ: ‘Unfortunate and regrettable incident’: Inside the Otago University data breach
Hamish McNeilly reports: An online loophole allowed a handful of users to access a veritable treasure trove of information at the University of Otago. The types of information, revealed to Stuff following an Official Information Act request, included phone numbers, addresses, passport details, exam results, police vetting lists, academic integrity investigation invitation letters, referee reports,…
The Pope’s website taken offline in suspected hacker attack
Anugraha Sundaravelu reports: Hackers have targeted the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church in an apparent cyberattack. The official Vatican website was taken offline on Wednesday following an apparent hacking attack, the Holy See said. ‘Technical investigations are ongoing due to abnormal attempts to access the site,’ Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said, without giving any…
De: Klinikum Lippe hospital decrypts data after “intensive negotiations” with ransomware attackers
The Klinikum Lippe describes itself as one of the largest municipal hospitals in Germany and part of the University Hospital OWL of the University of Bielefeld. On November 17, they detected a significant cyberattack that impacted all three of their locations: Detmold, Lemgo, and Bad Salzuflen. From its own statements, it appeared that the hospital…
Sandworm gang launches Monster ransomware attacks on Ukraine
Jeff Burt reports: The Russian criminal crew Sandworm is launching another attack against organizations in Ukraine, using a ransomware that analysts at Slovakian software company ESET are calling RansomBoggs. In a Twitter thread, the ESET researchers wrote that they had detected RansomBoggs deployed within the networks of “multiple organizations in Ukraine.” While some aspects of RansomBoggs…