Mathieu Pollet, translated by Daniel Eck, reports: Hackers from ransomware gang Lockbit 2.0 claimed to have hacked into the French justice ministry on Thursday (27 January). They said that if the ransom is not paid by 10 February, the stolen data will be published. EURACTIV France reports. A total of 9,859 files are ready to be disseminated on…
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UK: Data breach at Greensward Academy
Lewis Berrill reports: SENSITIVE information about pupils was leaked to parents and students following a data breach at a secondary school. Information such as free school meal status, address, deprivation status, exam dispensation and special educational needs of Year 11 children at Greeensward Academy in Hockley was accidentally leaked by a teacher. The information was…
Conti ransomware hits Apple, Tesla supplier
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The Conti ransomware gang has been linked to an attack on Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company and a major supplier of power components to companies like Apple and Tesla. The attack took place last Friday, on January 21, according to a statement shared by the company with stock market authorities. Read more…
Nobel Foundation site hit by DDoS attack on award day
Bill Toulas reports: … As revealed, the institution’s site was hit by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack which aims to overwhelm a website with high volumes of “garbage” traffic and a large number of bogus connection requests. This action depletes the available server resources and renders the website unable to serve real visitors,…
N.Korean internet downed by suspected cyber attacks -researchers
Josh Smith reports: North Korea’s internet appears to have been hit by a second wave of outages in as many weeks, possibly caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, researchers said on Wednesday. The latest incident took place for about six hours on Wednesday morning local time, and came a day after North Korea conducted…
China Releases Draft Regulations on Network Data Security Management
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On November 14, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released for public comment its draft Regulations on Network Data Security Management (the “Draft Regulations”). The Draft Regulations are intended to implement portions of three existing laws – the Cybersecurity Law (“CSL”), the Data Security Law (“DSL”) and the Personal Information…