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Cyberinsurance giant AXA hit by ransomware attack after saying it would stop covering ransom payments

Posted on May 17, 2021 by Dissent

Graham Cluley sets the stage nicely: Ouch. One week after the French branch of cyberinsurance giant AXA said that it would no longer be writing policies to cover ransomware payments, the company’s operations in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Phillippines have reportedly been hit… by a ransomware attack. Read more on GrahamCluley.com. Consistent with their…

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De: Darkside threat actors attempted to extort Möbelstadt Sommerlad

Posted on May 15, 2021 by chum1ng0

Möbelstadt Sommerlad is a retail furniture store in Germany. This week, its managing director, Frank Sommerlad, disclosed that they had been the victim of a ransomware attack and extortion attempt. Marc Schäfer reports Sommerlad’s statement (machine translation): “We got away with it with a black eye,” says Frank Sommerlad, managing director of the R. Sommerlad GmbH…

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Ca: Toronto plastic surgeon’s licence suspended over social media posts, surveillance of patients without consent

Posted on May 15, 2021 by Dissent

Caitlin Taylor and Makda Ghebreslassie report: A Toronto plastic surgeon and self-styled social media influencer has had his licence to practise medicine suspended. In a decision released on May 12, the disciplinary committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) suspended the licence of Dr. Martin Jugenburg — who goes by Dr….

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Ca: After daycare site data theft, Quebec National Library shutting briefly for security upgrade

Posted on May 15, 2021 by Dissent

Selena Ross reports: Quebec’s Bibliotheque Nationale is shutting down, and going partly offline, until next Tuesday because it uses the same technology company that served the daycare booking website that had its data stolen earlier this week. “Following the attack on the government site La Place 0-5 earlier this week, the Government Cyber ​​Defense Center…

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Ie: Cyberattack on HSE: Scale of damage from Conti’s ransomware attack will not be known for days

Posted on May 15, 2021 by Dissent

Jack Horgan-Jones and Conor Lally report: It will be at least three days before the scale of the damage from “possibly the most significant cyber crime attack on the Irish State” is clear, a Government Minister has said. Green Party Minister of State for Communications Ossian Smyth said the attack, which led to HSE IT systems being…

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Apex America hit by Sodinokibi ransomware

Posted on May 14, 2021 by chum1ng0

Apex America describes itself as a leading Digital Customer Experience services company in Latin America that partners with  more than 50 global brands. It has operational centers in 14 locations in Latin America.  That’s how they describes themselves. The threat actors known as REvil (Sodinokibi) describe them as targets who have so far refused to pay…

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