As reported by Reuters, South Africa’s Life Healthcare said on Tuesday its southern African operation was hit by a cyber attack affecting its admissions systems, business processing systems and email servers, but is yet to determine the extent to which data has been compromised. The hospital operator said its patient care was not impacted and an investigation into the incident is underway. Southern Africa is Life Healthcare’s biggest market that includes Botswana. The company said its hospitals and administrative offices continue to function with some delays, after having switched to backup systems.
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As reported by Threatpost, researchers from IBM are warning of an ongoing phishing attack that’s targeting the credentials of more than 100 high-profile executives at a German multinational corporation that’s tasked with procuring coronavirus medical gear for Germany. The company, left unnamed by researchers, is part of a task force created March 30 by the German government and the private sector to procure personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers on the front lines of COVID-19, such as face masks and medical equipment. The task force consists of nine companies, including car manufacturer Volkswagen, pharmaceutical company Bayer, airline Lufthansa, chemical firm BASF and…
The Maze Ransomware gang breached and successfully encrypted the systems of VT San Antonio Aerospace (VT SAA), a subsidiary of ST Engineering, one of Asia’s largest defense and engineering groups, as well as stole and leaked unencrypted files in April 2020 through a compromised administrator account.
In a breach notification letter, Canadian retailer Fitness Depot, the largest specialty exercise equipment retailer in Canada with 40 stores nationwide, notified its customers that their personal and financial information was stolen following a breach of its e-commerce platform, which appears to be a Magecart attack.
Cyber criminals have launched a new phishing scam designed to steal personal and financial details of millions of self-employed workers using the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) during the Covid-19 outbreak. The scam, uncovered by litigation specialists Griffin Law, begins with a text message sent to self-employed workers offering a tax rebate purporting to be from HMRC. The news comes following Chancellor Rishi Sunak announcing an extension of the scheme, which has so far seen 2.3 million claims worth £6.8 billion will be able to claim a second and final grant in August. The text message informs the victim they are eligible for a…
Recently, people who are desperate with the promise of free decryption have been tricked by the spreading fake decryptor for the STOP Djvu Ransomware. What happens is that they are infected with another ransomware worsening their situation instead of having their stolen files back for free.
Some 26% of people claim they have seen an increase in the level of online scams and phishing attacks they face since they started working from home during the Coronavirus crisis, with just 7% saying it has fallen. The findings (1) are from DSA Connect, an IT asset disposal company that specialises in the permanent deletion and destruction of electronic data, which also reveals that 5% of people say they have fallen victim to an online scam since the lockdown began. These findings are all the more concerning because 8% of people say that since they started working from home, they now…
A severe vulnerability has been discovered in a core protocol found in almost all internet of things (IoT) devices. The vulnerability, named CallStranger, allows attackers to hijack smart devices for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, but also for attacks that bypass security solutions to reach and conduct scans on a victim’s internal network — effectively granting attackers access to areas where they normally wouldn’t be able to reach. https://twitter.com/KoroushGhazi/status/1270165471170457602
Report says schools, industry and recruiters should do more 9 June 2020 – A report published by CREST highlights progress made in gender diversity across the cybersecurity industry, in the past few years. And then points to the next steps needed to further address the gender gap. CREST – the not-for-profit body that represents the technical security industry including vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, incident response, threat intelligence and SOC (Security Operations Centre) – has found that while awareness around gender diversity has improved, there is still work to be done to make a significant practical difference. In polls taken at CREST’s gender diversity…
Conduent, a $4.4 billion by revenue (2019) IT services giant, has admitted that a ransomware attack hit its European operations — but says it managed to restore most systems within eight hours. Conduent, which says it provides services (including HR and payments infrastructure) for “a majority of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments”, was hit on Friday, May 29. “Conduent’s European operations experienced a service interruption on Friday, May 29, 2020. Our system identified ransomware, which was then addressed by our cybersecurity protocols.” Currently, the strain of ransomware used has not been named, but the Maze ransomware group has posted stolen…