Another day, another ransomware attack! A ransomware group allegedly published 95% of files it pilfered from the networks of a multinational defense contractor. Meanwhile, Ukraine attributed the recent devastating attack on its critical government infrastructure and private firms to a Belarus-based APT. DHL replaced Google and Microsoft to top the list of most imitated brands for phishing scams. Continue scrolling through the top ten headlines from the weekend.
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German defense contractor Hensoldt disclosed that a limited number of mobile devices of its U.K subsidiary’s systems were compromised with Lorenz ransomware.
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Part of the IT infrastructure at Parasol Group was pulled offline as a result of unauthorized activity in its network. The outage enters its second week.
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The Ukrainian government strongly suspects that the UNC1151 APT group from Belarus was behind recent website defacement attacks that contained a message about stolen data.
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Threat actors behind the Qlocker ransomware were found targeting QNAP NAS devices worldwide in a new campaign that started this month. The cybercriminals demand between 0.02 to 0.03 in BTC.
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Nonprofit organization Goodwill notified users of a breach of its e-commerce platform owing to an intrusion by an unknown third party. As per claims made by the organization, no payment card data was exposed.
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DHL heads the list of Check Point Research’s top ten most imitated brands in Q4 2021 with a 23% share, surpassing Microsoft and Google as the brand used in phishing campaigns.
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The Washington State auditor’s report found that hackers bilked out nearly $300,000 from the City of Tenino in a classic BEC scam in 20 separate transactions over a six-week period.
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The European Union kicked off a six-week cyber exercise to test its cyber-defense responsiveness by simulating an attack on a fictitious Finnish power company.
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Researchers at Wordfence reported critical flaws in three WordPress plugins that concern over 84,000 websites. The exploitation of these flaws could lead to website takeover attacks.
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U.S-based tech firm DigiCert acquired Mocana, a cybersecurity firm based in California to offer managed security and planning across the full IoT device lifecycle.
