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Cyberattacks interrupt unemployment benefits in multiple states. AP News found that several states are dealing with a disruption of unemployment benefits caused by cyberattacks, leading to missed payments for those still out of work.
Malware used in a crippling cyberattacks against an Iranian steel plants last week is connected to an attack that shut down the country's rail system last year. The overlaps in the code, combined with contextual clues and even recycled jokes, indicate that the same threat actor, dubbed Indra, is behind the attacks impacting Iran's infrastructure.
The guide categorizes the protection requirements of various satellite missions from "Normal" to "Very High" with the goal of covering as many missions as possible. "High" is high-consequence damage that "Can significantly limit the operation of the satellite system." As for "Very High," the attack could result in shutdown and "Reach an existentially threatening, catastrophic extent for the operator or the manufacturer."
A cyberattack on a software company almost a week ago continues to ripple through labor and workforce agencies in a number of US states, cutting off people from such services as unemployment benefits and job-seeking programs. According to the Louisiana Workforce Commission in a statement this week, Geographic Solutions was forced to shut down state labor exchanges and unemployment claims systems, and as many as 40 states and Washington DC, all of which rely on GSI's services, could be affected.
Ukrainian government and private sector organizations have been the target of 796 cyberattacks since the start of the war on February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. According to Ukraine's cybersecurity defense and security agency SSSCIP, the country's networks have been under a constant barrage of hacking attempts since the war started.
Carnival Cruise Lines will cough up more than $6 million to end two separate lawsuits filed by 46 states in the US after sensitive personal information on customers and employees was accessed in a string of cyber attacks. Late last week, New York's Department of Financial Services announced Carnival had agreed to pay $5 million to the state as a penalty for falling foul of NY's Cybersecurity Regulation.
TB Kawashima, part of the Japanese automotive component manufacturer Toyota Boshoku of the Toyota Group of companies, announced that one of its subsidiaries has been hit by a cyberattack. On Thursday, TB Kawashima announced that one of its subsidiaries, a Thai sales company, had been breached, prompting immediate action that consisted in turning off devices that the attacker accessed.
Fast Shop, one of Brazil's largest online retailers, has suffered an 'extortion' cyberattack that led to network disruption and the temporary closure of its online store. Fast Shop is an online retailer selling a wide range of products, including computers, smartphones, gaming consoles, furniture, beauty products, and home appliances.
Air raid sirens sounded for over an hour in parts of Jerusalem and southern Israel on Sunday evening - but bombs never fell, leading some to blame Iran for compromising the alarms. While the perpetrator remains unclear, Israel's National Cyber Directorate did say in a tweet that it suspected a cyberattack because the air raid sirens activated were municipality-owned public address systems, not Israel Defense Force alarms as originally believed.
Microsoft said today that Russian intelligence agencies have stepped up cyberattacks against governments of countries that have allied themselves with Ukraine after Russia's invasion. Since the start of the war, threat actors linked to several Russian intelligence services have attempted to breach entities in dozens of countries worldwide, prioritizing governments, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center analysts.