Translation: According to the information received, the hackers or hackers who infiltrated the computers of Kayseri OIZ Directorate last week, locked the files containing important information of the institution and demanded money from the OIZ management in return for giving the passwords. OSB officials reacted to the hackers’ demand for money and referred the issue…
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Accellion’s data breach left clients in tough position: pay extortion to criminals, or have their data dumped (with updates)
A breach involving Accellion‘s older file transfer application has left a number of its customers in the unenviable position of not only having a data breach to deal with, but with the added threat that their data and their clients’ data will be dumped by threat actors if they do not pay extortion demands. At…
UPDATED: California DMV halts data transfers with third-party company after Automatic Funds Transfer Services security breach
Update: As BleepingComputer reports, the AFTS attack appears to be the work of the Cuba ransomware threat actor(s) who claim to have exfiltrated “Financial documents, correspondence with bank employees, account movements, balance sheets, tax documents.” They offer to sell the data on their dedicated leak site on the dark web, but do not list any…
Three North Korean Military Hackers Involved in Sony Pictures Hack, Wanna Cry, and Numerous Other Attacks Indicted in Wide-Ranging Scheme to Commit Cyberattacks and Financial Crimes Across the Globe
A federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently…
First it was Blackbaud, now it’s Sodinokibi — Southern Arkansas University becomes a breach victim again
Marco De Felice reports: After being VICTIM OF THE BLACKBAUD DATA BREACH in May of last year, Southern Arkansas University is now facing a new data theft by the Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware group. A few minutes ago, the Sodinokibi Ransomware group published a series of screenshots on its website regarding some data exfiltrated during the cyber attack against the…
Ca: Simon Fraser University warns cyberattack exposed personal information of about 200,000 students, staff and alumni
CBC reports: Simon Fraser University is warning its school community about a cyberattack that breached a server which stored information on student and employee ID numbers and other data, including admissions or academic standing. The school says about 200,000 people were affected by the breach. The university said its Information Technology Services staff discovered the…