The cloud infrastructure has become an integral addition to business operations and our daily lives and hence, it’s also attracting unwanted attention from cybercriminals. Recently, a Switzerland-based cloud hosting provider was brought to its knees in a ransomware attack. In other news, Iranian hackers attacked a fashion retailer and demanded quite a steep ransom. Also, a cryptocurrency exchange took a blow to its services and had to shut down operations after an attack. For more, go ahead and take a look at the highlights that shaped the cyberworld in the past 24 hours.
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Swiss Cloud experienced a ransomware attack, severely hitting the company’s server infrastructure while affecting over 6,500 customers.
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Iranian hackers, dubbed N3tw0rm, targeted H&M Israel and other Israeli companies while threatening to leak 110GB of customer data if the ransom requirement of 3BTC isn’t met.
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was accused of running a state-sponsored ransomware operation through a country’s contracting company known as Emen Net Pasargard.
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The City of Toronto suffered a potential breach via Accellion FTA file transfer server that had occurred in January. Investigation revealed that the health information of individuals could be at risk.
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Around 345,000 files from the Solicitor-General of the Philippines, including sensitive information for ongoing legal cases, were publicly exposed in a data breach since at least February.
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Hotbit cryptocurrency exchange shut down all services for at least a week after a cyberattack that paralyzed several of its basic services, with an attempt to hack into its wallets.
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Bank holding firm First Horizon Corporation declared laying bare online banking accounts details of its customers, while losing an aggregate of less than $1 million from compromised accounts.
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According to Geminy Advisory, top third-party platforms used by U.S. restaurants for online orders are under heavy attack, with some 343,000 payment cards exposed in the last six months.
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A researcher from HSE University proposed a new algorithm, to assess vulnerabilities in encryption programs, leveraging a brute-force search of possible options of symbol deciphering.
