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The Swedish Public Health Agency is currently investigating several attempts to hack into SmiNet, a database that stores reports of infectious diseases, including COVID-19 cases. SmiNet was shut down on Thursday, after the agency identified several attempts to gain unauthorized access to the database, but it was restored by Friday night.
JBS USA, the US subsidiary of the world's largest meat processing company, said Monday that some operations were shut down following a cyberattack that affected its North American and Australian IT network. Headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, JBS USA is a global food company wholly owned by Brazil-based JBS S.A., the largest meat processing firm in the world.
JBS Foods, a leading food company and the largest meat producer globally, had to shut down production at multiple sites worldwide following a cyberattack. The incident impacted multiple JBS production facilities worldwide over the weekend, including those from the United States, Australia, and Canada.
Over the past year, an Iran-linked threat actor named Agrius has been observed launching destructive attacks on Israeli targets, under the disguise of ransomware attacks, according to endpoint security company SentinelOne. Likely state-sponsored, the threat group initially engaged in cyberespionage attacks, but then attempted to extort victims, claiming to have exfiltrated and encrypted data.
A series of high-profile cyberattacks on targets in the West have highlighted the vulnerability of companies and institutions, making the issue a higher public priority but with no easy solution. The attack saw its computer systems encrypted, putting its operations offline and causing fuel shortages for American drivers.
Today, Cato Networks has released an analysis of the network flows across its platform during Q1, 2021, seeking anomalous behavior in approximately 200 billion traffic flows during Q1, 2021. "Blocking network traffic to and from 'the usual suspects' may not necessarily make your organization more secure," comments Etay Maor, senior director of security strategy at Cato Networks.
From paralysing the internet in Estonia to a $4.4-million ransom being paid last week after the shutdown of a major US pipeline, we take a look back at 15 years of cyberattacks. The Baltic nation of Estonia was the first state hit by a massive cyberattack in 2007, paralysing key corporate and government web services for days.
The incidents of the past month have confirmed the lack of cyber resilience in many industrial companies and is another reminder of the benefits of zero trust in mitigating the effects of ransomware. The industrial community must improve resilience in operational networks using zero trust strategies.
Microsoft has released SimuLand, an open-source lab environment to help test and improve Microsoft 365 Defender, Azure Defender, and Azure Sentinel defenses against real attack scenarios. SimuLand test labs "Provide use cases from a variety of data sources including telemetry from Microsoft 365 Defender security products, Azure Defender, and other integrated data sources through Azure Sentinel data connectors," MSTIC Threat Researcher Roberto Rodriguez said.
Glass and metal packaging giant Ardagh Group this week disclosed a cyberattack that forced it to shut down certain systems and applications. The Luxembourg-based company, one of the largest producers of glass and metal packaging products, says it was able to safely continue operations at its facilities despite the incident.