Sudais Asif reports: What sounds like a nightmare for a company? Waking up to the news that the data of their customers is being sold online. That’s exactly what has happened to Ho-Mobile, an Italian phone service provider owned by Vodafone Italy. Apparently, the personal data of over 2.5 million Ho-Mobile’s customers is being sold…
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Lithuania’s public health body comes under cyber attack; infected emails contain emotet trojan
Jūratė Damulytė and Ignas Jačauskas of BNS report a Trojan.Emotet virus is making the rounds in email attachments sent to Lithuanian government institutions, ministries, and individuals who were contacted by National Public Health Centre (NVSC) specialists whose accounts were first infected by the virus. Lithuania’s National Public Health Centre (NVSC) came under a cyber attack…
FR: Grand Annecy hit by malware attack
And here we go… yet another French city and agglomeration have been hit by malware Is any French news outlet going to find out and tell us what kind of malware and what the ransom demands are, if there are demands? Translation from Le Dauphiné follows: During the night of December 27 to 28, the…
China settles over 3,100 personal data breach cases in 2020
Xinhua reports: China’s public security agencies investigated and settled more than 3,100 criminal cases involving personal information breaches this year, with more than 9,700 suspects arrested, according to the Ministry of Public Security. By Dec 20, police across the country had dismantled more than 40 criminal gangs and arrested more than 860 suspects in 50…
Antwerp laboratory becomes latest victim of cyber-attack
Alan Hope reports a ransomware attack on a laboratory that “handles about 3,000 Covid-19 tests a day, or about 5% of he national total. As such, it is the largest private lab in the country dealing with the Covid-19 crisis.” The attack took place on the General Medical Laboratory (AML) in the Antwerp district of…
AIDA Cruise Ships Under Cyber Attack
Jim Walker reports: AIDA cruise ships, including the Aidamar and the Aidaperla, are suffering what has been described as an “immense” IT problem, according to a German newspaper published today. Bild reports that the AIDA cruise line’s operations in its home port of Rostock, Germany have been affected by the failure of the company’s land based and shipboard telephone and internet…