A Private Industry Alert (PIA) was sent out from the FBI about Mamba ransomware on March 23. As Catalin Cimpanu reports about Alert Number CU-000143-MW The US Federal Bureau of Investigations has sent out this week a private industry notification to US organizations warning about attacks carried out by the Mamba ransomware gang, along with basic instructions…
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Coveware censors post after ransomware actors use it for promotion
Sam Varghese reports: Incident response firm Coveware has deleted a small portion of an article it had posted online in 2019, after the actors behind the REvil ransomware group — also known as Sodinokibi — used it to promote the efficiency of their own decryptor over that of the one used by rival ransomware actor,…
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…
MA: Stratus Technologies posts about ransomware attack
From an urgent notice on their web site: On March 17, 2021, Stratus Technologies, Inc. was the victim of a ransomware event. Upon detecting suspicious activity, we took several systems offline to isolate the issue and began to initiate our business continuity plan. Additionally, we notified federal law enforcement authorities and enlisted third-party subject matter…
Ca: Nunavut schools confirm school information system vendor suffered ransomware attack
On March 3, this site noted that a security incident affecting Manitoba school districts sounded like a ransomware attack on Edsembli. Yesterday, Nunavut’s Department of Education confirmed it was a ransomware attack on the territory’s school information system that stores grades, attendance and student enrolment. That system is maintained by Edsembli. No data has reportedly…
The Ransomware Plague: Is LATAM Surrendering to Digital Extortion?
This Research is the third part of the AdvIntel LATAM Series. To see other blogs within this series please visit: Part 1: Latin America Threat Landscape: The Paradox of Interconnectivity Part 2: Cyber Exploration: The Geostrategic Quest of APT Groups in LATAM Part 3: Economic Growth, Digital Inclusion, & Specialized Crime: Financial Cyber Fraud in…