Security News
Aerospace giant Boeing is investigating a cyberattack that impacted its parts and distribution business after the LockBit ransomware gang claimed that they breached the company's network and stole data. The ransomware gang said on Friday that they allegedly breached Boeing's network and stole a significant amount of sensitive information that they would leak online five days later if the airplane maker didn't reach out before the deadline.
Won't say if it's LockBit, but LockBit appears to have claimed credit. Maybe payment, too Boeing has acknowledged a cyber incident just days after ransomware gang LockBit reportedly exfiltrated...
The British Library has been hit by a major IT outage affecting its website and many of its services following a "Cyber incident" that impacted its systems on Saturday, October 28. The ongoing outage also affects other services, including our phone lines and on-site library services in London and Yorkshire.
Ace Hardware appears to have been the latest organization to succumb to a cyberattack, judging by its website and a message from CEO John Venhuizen. In a note sent to Ace retailers this week, Venhuizen said: "On Sunday morning, we detected a cybersecurity incident that is impacting the majority of our IT systems. As a result of this incident, many of our key operating systems, including ACENET, our Warehouse Management Systems, the Ace Retailer Mobile Assistant, Hot Sheets, Invoices, Ace Rewards and the Care Center's phone system, have been interrupted or suspended."
The Toronto Public Library is warning that many of its online services are offline after suffering a cyberattack over the weekend, on Saturday, October 28. TPL is Canada's largest public library system, giving people access to 12 million books through 100 branch libraries across Toronto.
ESET researcher Matthieu Faou has exposed a new cyberattack from a cyberespionage threat actor known as Winter Vivern, whose interests align with Russia and Belarus. The attack focuses on exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Roundcube webmail, with the result being the ability to list folders and emails in Roundcube accounts and exfiltrate full emails to an attacker-controlled server.
A cyberattack on shared service provider TransForm has impacted operations in five hospitals in Ontario, Canada, impacting patient care and causing appointments to be rescheduled. Yesterday, the service provider released a statement stating that their IT systems are experiencing an outage due to a cyberattack.
The University of Michigan says in a statement today that hackers breaching its network in August accessed systems with information belonging to students, applicants, alumni, donors, employees, patients, and research study participants. Unauthorized access to the servers lasted between August 23-27, the university says, and the data exposed included personal, financial, and medical details.
Insurance giant American Family Insurance has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack and shut down portions of its IT systems after customers reported website outages all week.American Family Insurance is an insurance company focusing on commercial and personal property, casualty, auto, and life insurance, as well as offering investment and retirement planning The company employs 13,000 people and has a 2022 revenue of $14.4 billion.
Two weeks into an ongoing IT outage, Kwik Trip finally confirmed that it's investigating a cyberattack impacting the convenience store chain's internal network since October 9."Although a thorough forensic investigation is still ongoing and further information may be uncovered, current findings indicate that we experienced a cybersecurity incident that caused disruption to systems located on our internal network on Monday, October 9, 2023," Kwik Trip said on Thursday evening.