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Yahil declined to say how many users have been affected for confidentiality reasons, but Singapore Airlines reported more than 580,000 impacted customers alone, meaning the compromise could ultimately impact millions of users. "Many airlines have issued public statements confirming what types of data have been affected in relation to their passengers."
The Biden administration has named China as the most threatening nation the United States faces, on grounds that it can combine its technological and other capabilities like no other. That assessment was offered in a new Interim National Security Guidance [PDF] issued on Wednesday, in which the administration also outlines plans to seek more regulation of advanced technologies and an intention to strike back after cyberattacks.
US managed service provider CompuCom has suffered a DarkSide ransomware attack leading to service outages and customers disconnecting from the MSP's network to prevent the spread of malware. Over the weekend, CompuCom suffered an outage that prevented customers from accessing the company's customer portal to open troubleshooting tickets.
Jason Nurse, an associate professor in cybersecurity at the University of Kent, and a visiting academic at the University of Oxford, cautioned that personal photos and information shared via various online platforms used by remote workers can expose not only the employee, but also corporate networks, to threats from savvy attackers who are looking to exploit personal data. With more workers online than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people have gotten so comfortable with sharing photos and other personal information online that they may not be aware of how it can be misused, Nurse said.
The cyberattack that hit Universal Health Services in September has cost the healthcare service provider a whopping $67 million in damages, according to financial statements. With UHS subsidiaries encompassing 26 acute care hospitals, 328 behavioral health inpatient facilities, and 42 outpatient facilities and ambulatory care centers in 38 states across the U.S., the impact of the cyberattack was far reaching.
Healthcare services provider Universal Health Services last week revealed that a cyberattack it fell victim to in September 2020 had an estimated financial impact of $67 million. Within one month after the incident, hospitals were able to resume normal operations, with technology applications restored at acute care and behavioral health hospitals, and re-established connections to all major systems, including electronic medical records, laboratory, and pharmacy systems.
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.
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