Translation from ceskatelevize.cz: The railway administration has been facing a cyber attack since last week, Deník N reported . The state organization, which provides traffic on the railways, assured that it was not affected by the attack or traffic safety. The attack followed other previous incidents that targeted state organizations or ministries. According to the spokesman of the Railway Administration…
Vengeful IT Contractor Sentenced to Two Years for Deleting Carlsbad Company’s Microsoft User Accounts
March 22 — Deepanshu Kher was sentenced today in federal court to two years in prison for accessing the server of a Carlsbad Company and deleting over 1,200 over the company’s 1,500 Microsoft User Accounts. According to court documents, Kher was employed by an information technology consulting firm from 2017 through May 2018. In 2017,…
Ca: Sierra Wireless Announces Ransomware Attack
VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) (TSX: SW), the world’s leading IoT solutions provider, today announced that it discovered it was the subject of a ransomware attack on its internal IT systems on March 20, 2021. Once the company learned of the attack, its IT and operations teams immediately implemented measures to counter the…
Transport NSW documents posted on dark web after Accellion hack
Anton Nilsson reports that threat actors who have been dumping files from Accellion clients have started dumping files from Transport NSW: Massive amounts of sensitive NSW government documents have been published online by hackers attempting to extort the authorities for cash. The sporadic leaks to the dark web have continued in the past few days…
Japan Halts Use Of Line App For Government Officials Over Chinese Data Breach
Zaini Majeed reports: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Thursday said that his administration has halted the use of the Line messaging app among the government officials as the probe is ongoing into the alleged data breach by the Chinese engineer. Earlier, reports emerged that the Japanese app provider Line Corp’s Chinese affiliate had access…
TX: Sewell Family of Companies discloses breach
Seen on their web site: The Sewell Family of Companies has concluded an investigation into a data security incident that occurred August 1, 2020, when officials learned of an unauthorized attempt to access its network. At the time, SFC followed its protocol and immediately shut down its network to prevent further harm. SFC launched an…