Ransomware attack on Blue Yonder disrupts Starbucks, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons

Starbucks has confirmed that a ransomware attack on software supplier Blue Yonder has disrupted its internal systems for managing employee schedules and tracking work hours. The incident has primarily affected Starbucks’ North American operations, including approximately 11,000 stores across the Read More …

INTERPOL: Major cybercrime operation nets 1,006 suspects

LYON, France – Authorities across 19 African countries have arrested 1,006 suspects and dismantled 134,089 malicious infrastructures and networks thanks to a joint operation by INTERPOL and AFRIPOL against cybercrime. Operation Serengeti (2 September – 31 October) targeted criminals behind Read More …

SteelFox Leverages Signed Windows Drivers to Attack Kernel

This week, the SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team investigated a sample of SteelFox malware. This is bundled with “software activators” for JetBrains and Foxit PDF readers. During installation, they run as a service and use vulnerable signed Windows drivers Read More …

Hackers who inflitrated South African financial system reveal data for a large number people

A hacking group that claims it fraudulently collected Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grants and infiltrated South Africa’s financial system through credit bureaus has released data appearing to belong to Absa and Standard Bank customers. N4aughtySecGroup contacted the media earlier Read More …

9 months after the largest healthcare breach in history, UnitedHealth subsidiary back online

Change Healthcare—a subsidiary of the global health company UnitedHealth Group — has restored its medical billing services nine months after suffering an unprecedented ransomware attack that left providers with serious cashflow problems, threatened access to care, and leaked sensitive information Read More …

Meta takes down more than 2 million accounts in fight against pig butchering

Meta provided insight this week into the company’s efforts in taking down more than 2 million accounts that were connected to pig butchering scams on their owned platforms, Facebook and Instagram. Pig butchering scams are big business, with hundreds of Read More …

Fake Google Chrome Website Tricks Users into Installing Malware

Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser in the world, and this dominance makes it a great vector for cybercriminals to use to spread malware to unsuspecting users. The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team recently found what Read More …

Ford denies it was hit by data breach, says customer data is safe

Ford has denied suffering a data breach frecently, saying the information circulating around the web belongs to a third party and is, for the most part, publicly available. A known leaker with the alias EnergyWeaponUser recently posted a new thread Read More …