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Lactalis, the world's leading dairy group, has disclosed a cyberattack after unknown threat actors have breached some of the company's systems. Lactalis has 85,000 employees in 51 countries, and it exports dairy products to over 100 countries around the world.
French boat maker Groupe Beneteau is working on restoring operations after falling victim to a cyber-attack roughly ten days ago. Last week, Beneteau announced that it suffered a malware intrusion on some of its servers, and that it decided to disconnect all "Information systems," to prevent the malware from spreading.
Human-rights activists are being targeted by cyberattacks as part of a wider effort by the Vietnamese state to censor anyone speaking out against the government, Amnesty International's Security Lab alleges. Ocean Lotus, a well-known threat actor dating back to 2013, is behind the spyware campaign against human-rights defenders and has long been identified as having goals "Aligned with the Vietnamese state interests," according to Amnesty International's report on the situation.
For its "2021 Cyber Security Report," Check Point looked at some of the major cyber incidents that occurred in 2020, from ransomware attacks against healthcare facilities to data breaches of large companies to the SolarWinds-related exploit and attack. SEE: How to manage passwords: Best practices and security tips.
A majority of businesses surveyed for a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, see state-led and sponsored cyberattacks as a major threat. That attack was a moment of reckoning for many organizations about the challenges posed by state-led and -sponsored cyberattacks but, as the survey reveals, many businesses have long been aware of the escalating threat.
A major Finnish IT provider has been hit with a ransomware attack that has forced the company to turn off some services and infrastructure in a disruption to customers, while it takes recovery measures. Norwegian business journal E24 reported the attack on Espoo, Finland-based TietoEVRY on Tuesday, claiming to have spoken with Geir Remman, a communications director at the company.
As education has moved from in-classroom teaching to remote learning, colleges and universities have had to set up technologies that open the door to greater security risks. A report published Tuesday by cybersecurity provider BlueVoyant looks at the security threats challenging schools of higher learning and offers suggestions on how to combat them.
The acceleration of the use of IoT devices, gaming and streaming services; faster adoption of software, cloud and XaaS technologies to help organizations manage remote work and school; and 5G had become a reality, enabling more and higher-capacity connections from millions of devices all requiring protection of this expanded attack surface from highly complex cyberattacks. As a global phenomenon, A10 has seen the largest communications service providers expand their services, taking advantage of new opportunities with government and enterprises, along with regional providers addressing the critical need for high-speed broadband to rural communities.
Canadian undergraduate research university Lakehead has been dealing with a cyberattack that forced the institution earlier this week to cut off access to its servers. In a communication on Thursday, Lakehead University provided some details about the attack saying that it was aimed at its file share servers.
Cyemptive Technologies announced Cyemptive Web Fortress, a solution that protects web servers against zero-day cyberattacks in real time. Unlike other solutions on the market, which only identify and work to eliminate "Known" threats after they have infiltrated a system, Cyemptive Web Fortress protects your data and web servers against real-time cyberattacks on a preemptive, immediate basis.