Ted Raymond reports: Ottawa’s French public school board says it was the victim of a network security breach in October and it paid the hackers a ransom to secure the stolen data. In a statement on its website, the Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO) said it was notified of the cyberattack…
Category: Non-U.S.
Recovering from ransomware: One organization’s inside story
Yann Serra reports: On Sunday 21 February 2021, Manutan, a large office equipment distributor, discovered that two-thirds of its 1,200 servers had succumbed to a cyber attack by the DoppelPaymer ransomware crew. Commercial activity at the France-headquartered company – which has 25 subsidiaries spread across Europe – would be frozen for 10 days and did not resume fully until…
Hackers plant card-stealing malware on website that sells baron and duke titles
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A threat actor has hacked the website of the Principality of Sealand, a micronation in the North Sea, and planted malicious code on its web store, which the government is using to sell baron, count, duke, and other nobility titles. Called a “web skimmer,” the malicious code allowed the hackers to collect…
Ca: Headwaters confirms cybersecurity incident: “… many of our systems are down…”
Tabitha Wells reports: Headwaters Health Care Centre has provided an update regarding the suspicious email activity that led to the closure of its COVID-19 assessment centre and affected a number of internal systems. On Friday afternoon (Nov. 26), the hospital posted a second notice to its website, confirming a data breach. Read more on Orangeville.com
Panasonic discloses four-months-long data breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Japanese electronics giant Panasonic has disclosed on Friday a major security breach after an unidentified threat actor had gained access to its internal network. The Osaka-based company said it detected the security breach earlier this month, on November 11. “As the result of an internal investigation, it was determined that some data…
Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law
Jane Wakefield reports: The government has introduced new legislation to protect smart devices in people’s homes from being hacked. Recent research from consumer watchdog Which? suggested homes filled with smart devices could be exposed to more than 12,000 attacks in a single week. Default passwords for internet-connected devices will be banned, and firms which do…