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Japanese game giant Capcom has announced a data breach after confirming that attackers stole sensitive customer and employee information during a recent ransomware attack. On November 2nd, 2020, Capcom was hit with a cyberattack that led to them shutting down portions of their network to halt the infection's spread. It was soon learned that the Ragnar Locker ransomware operation caused Capcom's cyberattack after a security researcher found a sample of the malware used in their attack.
Two security vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric's programmable logic controllers could allow attackers to compromise a PLC and move on to more sophisticated critical infrastructure attacks. There are two types of application protection available: Read protection protects the controller's application from being read by any unauthorized personnel at the engineering workstation; and the write protection protects the controller's application from unauthorized changes.
The University of Vermont health network is scrambling to recover its systems after a cyberattack led to widespread delays in patient appointments - including chemotherapy appointments, as well as mammograms and biopsies. While the UVM health network has been vague in regards to what data has been accessed, the scheduling of patient appointments has been impacted, according to reports, affecting important patient screenings and appointments.
Republican Gov. Phil Scott said Wednesday that he has called in the Vermont Army National Guard's Combined Cyber Response Team to help the University of Vermont Health Network respond to last week's cyberattack that officials said caused significant network problems affecting six hospitals in Vermont and New York. The team will work with the health network to review thousands of computers and devices and ensure they do not have malware or virus, the governor said.
Japanese game developer Capcom has suffered a ransomware attack where threat actors claim to have stolen 1TB of sensitive data from their corporate networks in the US, Japan, and Canada. Yesterday, Capcom announced that they had been hit with a cyberattack on November 2nd, 2020, that led to the halting of portions of their corporate network to prevent the attack's spread. "Beginning in the early morning hours of November 2, 2020 some of the Capcom Group networks experienced issues that affected access to certain systems, including email and file servers. The company has confirmed that this was due to unauthorized access carried out by a third party, and that it has halted some operations of its internal networks as of November 2.".
"Authorities and election officials know this is the case and have taken precautions to try to ensure a safe election. These include election infrastructure assessment and securing voting registration systems. However, given the recent hack involving Hall County, Ga., where election data was released to public for failure to pay a ransom, it really brings into question how effective the measures will be in the final stretch of the election." "If ransomware hits a county, the mail-in count will be thrown into question. Because Republicans are known to vote in person on election day and Democrats favor mail-in ballots, this is a danger."
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A data breach at a North Carolina community college may have affected many of its current and former students. The Greensboro News & Records reported Tuesday that Guilford Technical Community College was hit with a ransomware cyberattack in mid-September.
Index Engines announced the latest enhancements to its ransomware detection and recovery software, CyberSense, to help organizations win the war against cyberattacks. "Cyberattacks continue to evolve to be more aggressive and more stealth-like than ever before, so we've continued to improve CyberSense to tackle this refinement," said Jim McGann, Vice President at Index Engines.
Dr. Reddy's, the contractor for Russia's "Sputinik V" COVID-19 vaccine and a major generics producer, has had to close plants and isolate its data centers. COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has shut down its plants in Brazil, India, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S. following a cyberattack, according to reports.