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…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ie: HSE shuts down IT system after ‘significant’ cyber attack
RTE reports: The Health Service Executive has temporarily shut down its IT system following what it described as a “significant ransomware attack”. The health body said it had taken the precaution of shutting down its systems to further protect them, and to allow it to assess the situation. The issue has led to Dublin’s Rotunda…
Operator of WeLeakInfo database marketplace sentenced to two years in prison
Catalin Cimpanu reports: One of the three operators of WeLeakInfo, a website that sold access to hacked databases, was sentenced today in the Netherlands to two years in prison, with one year suspended. In court proceedings that took place earlier this year, the suspect, a 23-year-old whose name was not released, admitted to managing the…
De: Hackers attack Energy Hamburg Radio
The announcement from Energy Hamburg radio was as follows: On Tuesday evening (May 11, 2021), hackers attacked ENERGY Hamburg and brought important IT areas to a standstill. Since then, our national ENERGY program can be heard on the Hamburg FM frequency of 97.1 MHz, the local DAB+ multiplex and the webcast. It is not yet…
Cyberattack steals info of one million in Turkey’s Konya
The Daily Sabah reports: About 1 million people’s information was stolen in a cyberattack targeting the municipality of Konya in central Turkey, media reports claimed. A municipality official confirmed the attack but did not disclose its scale. The Sözcü newspaper claims the ID numbers and other personal information of about 1 million people were stolen…
De: Hackers attack Ehrmann, demand millions in ransom
Ehrmann SE is a dairy headquartered in Germany. It has production facilitites in Russia and Brazil, as well as sales offices in Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic, Poland, Finland and China. The multinational firm has reportedly been hit by hackers. All we really know so far, as reported yesterday by Jens Noll and Sabrina Karrer,…