Jane Byrne reports: Agribusiness group, Danish Agro, was the target of a ransomware attack on Sunday, April 19. Read more on FeedNavigator.
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Ca: Leading accounting firm MNP hit with cyberattack
Lawrence Abrams reports: A leading accounting firm in Canada forced a company-wide shutdown of their systems after getting hit with a cyberattack last weekend, BleepingComputer has learned. Canadian accounting firm MNP’s systems were impacted last weekend in what BleepingComputer was told was a ransomware attack. Read more on BleepingComputer.
Hacking against corporations surges as workers take computers home
Joseph Menn reports: Hacking activity against corporations in the United States and other countries more than doubled by some measures last month as digital thieves took advantage of security weakened by pandemic work-from-home policies, researchers said. […] Software and security company VMWare Carbon Black said this week that ransomware attacks it monitored jumped 148% in…
CISA Alert (AA20-106A) Guidance on the North Korean Cyber Threat
Summary The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are issuing this advisory as a comprehensive resource on the North Korean cyber threat for the international community, network defenders, and the public. The advisory highlights the cyber threat posed by North Korea – formally known as the…
Ca: Privacy breach company remains part of B.C. health data sharing
Jeremy Hainsworth reports: A medical company hit by an October ransomware data privacy breach affecting 15 million Canadians is again named in a B.C. ministerial order as a company that can share British Columbians’ data. But, say observers, there is no issue for British Columbians to worry about as any liability rests with the government…
Personal Touch and Crossroads Technologies sued after Maze Team attack
As reported by TopClassActions: A former patient says that home health provider Personal Touch failed to protect patients and customers from a ransomware attack on their computerized records. The hospital ransomware class action lawsuit was filed by plaintiff Lugenia Booker, who says that her personal information was included in the computer records of Personal Touch Holding…