CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Ransomware Attack on World’s Largest Financial Newspaper The Nikkei company’s headquarters in Singapore was hit by a ransomware attack earlier this month.  The financial newspaper, with a daily circulation exceeding 3 million, disclosed that the scope of the attack is being accessed, but customer information[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Cyber Attack Closes College after 157 Years Lincoln College, located in central Illinois, will shut down at the end of the spring semester. The predominantly Black institution survived many challenging times, such as a campus fire in 1912 and the Spanish flu of 1918. The[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   $15 Million Bounty for Ransomware Group The US Department of State is offering up to $15 million for information that helps identify and locate members of Conti ransomware group. Conti is high on the FBI’s radar, as they estimate the group has attacked a thousand[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Massy Stores Trinidad Hit by Cyber Attack Massy Stores in Trinidad confirmed that it suffered a cyber-attack last week, which forced the company to close all 23 of its branches. Many of their stores remained closed for multiple days, while they worked with a third-party[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   LemonDuck Cryptomining Campaign LemonDuck operators are targeting Docker containers to mine cryptocurrency on Linux systems. LemonDuck was previously focused on exploiting vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers, but has expanded to the current operation for mining cryptocurrency such as Monero. Administrators need to ensure their Docker API[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Zegna Confirms Ransomware Attack In August 2021, the Italian luxury fashion house Ermenegildo Zegna were the victims of a ransomware attack by the RansomEXX group, which disrupted most of their IT infrastructure. The company recently confirmed the attack in their SEC filing, disclosing that they[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Desert Falcon Hackers Catfish Israeli officials Some high-ranking Israeli government and law enforcement officials were the targets of a very sophisticated social engineering operation. A Hamas-backed hacking group, known as APT-C-23 and Desert Falcon, executed a campaign with the codename “Operation Bearded Barbie”. Fake Facebook[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   LAPSUS$ hit Globant The IT and Software Development company which operates in many countries worldwide is the latest victim of LAPSUS$, as they published 70GB of data from Globant. Subsequently, Globant confirmed that the leaked information was limited to source code and project-related documentation for[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   LAPSUS$ strikes again, against Microsoft & Okta Microsoft confirmed that the LAPSUS$ group compromised one of their employee accounts with low-level access. The group stole and published 37GB of source code stolen from Microsoft’s Azure DevOps server relating to their Bing, Cortana and Maps projects.[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   DENSO hacked by Pandora The global automotive components manufacturer was hit with a ransomware attack by the Pandora Ransomware group early in March. DENSO confirmed the attack and that they were able to limit the scope of the breach to the German division only. DENSO[…]