Security News
CISA is investigating a cyberattack against a Pennsylvania water authority by suspected Iranian miscreants. The water authority immediately took the system offline, switching to manual operations after the intrusion, which didn't affect the region's drinking water or water supply.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency was hacked in a cyberattack over the summer, which may have put sensitive space-related technology and data at risk. The security breach was discovered this autumn when law enforcement authorities alerted Japan's space agency that its systems were compromised, as first reported by The Yomiuri Shimbun.
International logistics giant DP World has confirmed that data was stolen during a cyber attack that disrupted its operations in Australia earlier this month. "DP World Australia's investigation has confirmed that the incident was confined to the Australian operations and did not impact any other markets where DP World operates," DP World told BleepingComputer.
A cyberattack on CTS, a leading managed service provider for law firms and other organizations in the UK legal sector, is behind a major outage impacting numerous law firms and home buyers in the country since Wednesday. "We are experiencing a service outage which has impacted a portion of the services we deliver to some of our clients. The outage was caused by a cyber-incident," the UK IT services provider said in a statement published on Friday.
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Rust version of a cross-platform backdoor called SysJoker, which is assessed to have been used by a Hamas-affiliated threat actor to target Israel...
The Kansas Judicial Branch has published an update on a cybersecurity incident it suffered last month, confirming that hackers stole sensitive files containing confidential information from its systems. In mid-October 2023, the Kansas courts authority disclosed a "Security incident" that impacted the availability of multiple systems, including the eFiling system attorney's use for document submission, electronic payment systems, and the case management systems used by district and appellate courts.
The Rhysida ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the British Library in October, which has caused a major ongoing IT outage. A leak of HR documents stolen from the British Library was also confirmed today by the library's press office, which warned users to reset their passwords as a precautionary measure.
The Californian City of Long Beach is warning that they suffered a cyberattack on Tuesday that has led them to shut down portions of their IT network to prevent the attack's spread. Long Beach is the home to approximately 460,000 people and is the seventh most populous city in California. Yesterday, the City of Long Beach warned that it suffered a cyberattack on November 14th and engaged a cybersecurity firm to investigate the incident and notified the FBI. The City says that once it detected the attack, it began to take systems offline immediately, which is done to prevent the spread of the attack to other devices.
The Clorox Company's chief security officer has left her job in the wake of a corporate network breach that cost the manufacturer hundreds of millions of dollars. Amy Bogac held the title of chief information security officer and VP of enterprise security and infrastructure at Clorox since June 2021, per her LinkedIn profile.
PJ&A is warning that a cyberattack in March 2023 exposed the personal information of almost nine million patients. The data exposed for each person varies depending on what information they provided to the healthcare services and the type of treatment they received.