- Water and Wastewater Sector – Incident Response Guide
January 18, 2024
Cyber threat actors are aware of – and deliberately target – single points of failure. A compromise or failure of a Water and Wastewater (WWS) Sector organization could cause cascading impacts throughout the Sector and other critical infrastructure sectors. There are many aspects of the large and complex WWS Sector that pose challenges to raising cyber resilience ...
- Data breach hits Navy contractor Fincantieri Marine Group
January 15, 2024
Italian shipbuilding firm Fincantieri’s U.S. arm Fincantieri Marine Group, which is a contractor for the U.S. Navy, disclosed that it had 16,769 individuals’ data compromised following an April ransomware attack that resulted in significant production disruptions. In breach notification letters sent to impacted individuals earlier this month, FMG said that some of its systems had been ...
- Yakult Australia targeted in cyber attack, employee files published on dark web
December 28, 2023
Iconic probiotic company Yakult Australia has been hit by a significant cyber attack that has seen its company records and sensitive employee documents, such as passports, published on the dark web. Yakult Australia confirmed its Australian and New Zealand IT systems were impacted by a “cyber incident”. Read more… Source: MSN News
- Henry Schein Sales Hurt by Cyber Attack, Macro Woes
December 27, 2023
Henry Schein (HSIC) is currently entangled in a major cyber-attack incident. Headwinds like unfavorable currency movement and global economic uncertainties continue to affect the company. The stock carries a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell). In October 2023, Henry Schein stated that a portion of its manufacturing and distribution businesses experienced a cybersecurity incident. Henry Schein took precautionary ...
- Defense Contractor Austal USA Confirms a Cyber Attack by Hunters International Ransomware Group
December 15, 2023
Australian-based American defense contractor Austal USA has confirmed a cyber attack after the Hunters International ransomware group listed the company and shared samples of the stolen data as proof. Austal USA is a Contractor for the US Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), undertaking major U.S. Navy shipbuilding programs. With five ...
- How the EU Cyber Resilience Act Impacts Manufacturers
December 12, 2023
The European Union (EU) released their new Cyber Resilience Act which is claimed to be the first ever act put in place to ensure consumers are better protected by the manufacturers of both hardware and software products sold within the EU. This is a first since in the past the onus has been on the consumer ...
- Nissan probing possible cyberattack and data breach
December 7, 2023
Japanese car manufacturing giant Nissan is investigating a possible data breach, and is warning customers to be wary of potential scam emails and messages delivering malware. In a brief notification published on the Nissan Oceania websites, it was said that the Australian and New Zealand Corporation and Financial Services suffered a “cyber incident”. This division handles distribution, ...
- TA422’s Dedicated Exploitation Loop – the Same Week After Week
December 5, 2023
Starting in March 2023, Proofpoint researchers have observed the Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) TA422 readily use patched vulnerabilities to target a variety of organizations in Europe and North America. TA422 overlaps with the aliases APT28, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and BlueDelta, and is attributed by the United States Intelligence Community to the Russian ...
- FBI: IRGC-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit PLCs in Multiple Sectors, Including U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems Facilities
December 1, 2023
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) are disseminating this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight continued malicious cyber activity against operational technology devices by Iranian Government Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-affiliated Advanced Persistent Threat ...
- Hacker claims to have hit General Electric and stolen company data
November 27, 2023
A hacker with the alias IntelBroker claims to have breached General Electric and stolen plenty of sensitive data from the company’s systems. The company operates in different fields, including aerospace, renewable energy, power, venture capital, and more. The hacker posted a new thread on an underground forum, selling access to the company’s “development and software pipelines” ...
- Samsung UK discloses year-long breach, leaked customer data
November 17, 2023
The UK division of Samsung Electronics has allegedly alerted customers of a year-long data breach – the third such incident the South Korean giant has experienced around the world in the past two years. An email to customers, shared on social media by web security consultant and Have I Been Pwned creator Troy Hunt, detailed that ...
- #StopRansomware: Rhysida Ransomware
November 15, 2023
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the MultiState Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) are releasing this joint CSA to disseminate known Rhysida ransomware IOCs and TTPs identified through investigations as recently as September 2023. Rhysida – an emerging ransomware variant – has predominately been deployed against the education, ...
- #StopRansomware: Royal Ransomware Update
November 13, 2023
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are releasing this joint CSA to disseminate known Royal ransomware IOCs and TTPs identified through FBI threat response activities as recently as June 2023. Since approximately September 2022, cyber threat actors have compromised U.S. and international organizations with Royal ransomware. FBI and ...
- Judge rules it’s fine for car makers to intercept your text messages
November 9, 2023
A federal judge has refused to bring back a class action lawsuit that alleged four car manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record customers’ text messages and mobile phone call logs. Car manufacturers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen, and General Motors were facing five related privacy class action suits. One ...
- Sandworm Disrupts Power in Ukraine Using a Novel Attack Against Operational Technology
November 9, 2023
In late 2022, Mandiant responded to a disruptive cyber physical incident in which the Russia-linked threat actor Sandworm targeted a Ukrainian critical infrastructure organization. This incident was a multi-event cyber attack that leveraged a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS) / operational technology (OT). The actor first used OT-level living off the land (LotL) ...
- Boeing confirms ‘cyber incident’ after ransomware gang claims data theft
November 2, 2023
Aerospace giant Boeing has confirmed that it is dealing with a “cyber incident,” days after the company was listed on the leak site of the LockBit ransomware gang. In a statement given to TechCrunch, Boeing spokesperson Jim Prolux confirmed that attackers had targeted “elements of our parts and safety business.” The spokesperson added: “This issue does ...
- Casio Data Breach Impacts Customers in 149 Countries
October 27, 2023
Japanese electronics colossus Casio Computer Co., Ltd. has suffered a data breach on its ClassPad education platform, impacting customers in 149 countries. A technical failure on October 11, 2023, alerted Casio to the cyber intrusion that culminated in an unauthorized entity accessing the ClassPad development database on October 12, 2023. Casio launched an investigation and confirmed ...
- 2023 Zscaler ThreatLabz Report Indicates 400% Growth in IoT Malware Attacks
October 24, 2023
This Zscaler ThreatLabz blog serves as a brief synopsis of the key points revealed in their 2023 Enterprise IoT and OT Threat Report. The report explores the growth of Internet of Things (IoT) device traffic and IoT malware attacks, in addition to how legacy vulnerabilities, targeted devices, and specific industries have become central players in the ...
- Updated MATA attacks industrial companies in Eastern Europe
October 18, 2023
In early September 2022, Kaspersky researchers discovered several new malware samples belonging to the MATA cluster. As they were collecting and analyzing the relevant telemetry data, they realized the campaign had been launched in mid-August 2022 and targeted over a dozen corporations in Eastern Europe from the oil and gas sector and defense industry. The actors ...
- CISA Releases Nineteen Industrial Control Systems Advisories
October 12, 2023
CISA released nineteen Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on October 12, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-23-285-01 Siemens SIMATIC CP products ICSA-23-285-02 Siemens SCALANCE W1750D ICSA-23-285-03 Siemens SICAM A8000 Devices Read more… Source: U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency