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The Toronto District School Board is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack on its software testing environment and is now investigating whether any personal information was exposed. TDSB is Canada's largest school board and the fourth largest in North America, responsible for the administration and management of 473 elementary, 110 secondary, and five adult education schools.
Toronto Zoo, the largest zoo in Canada, says that a ransomware attack that hit its systems on early Friday had no impact on the animals, its website, or its day-to-day operations. "Currently, our animal wellbeing, care and support systems have not been impacted by this incident and we are continuing with normal Zoo operations including being open to guests," it said.
The Toronto Public Library confirmed that the personal information of employees, customers, volunteers, and donors was stolen from a compromised file server during an October ransomware attack.According to TPL, the attackers stole "a large number of files from a file server" containing data of Toronto Public Library and the Toronto Public Library Foundation employees, going back to 1998.
The Toronto Public Library is experiencing ongoing technical outages due to a Black Basta ransomware attack. The Toronto Public Library is Canada's largest public library system, giving access to 12 million books through 100 branch libraries across the city.
The Toronto Public Library is warning that many of its online services are offline after suffering a cyberattack over the weekend, on Saturday, October 28. TPL is Canada's largest public library system, giving people access to 12 million books through 100 branch libraries across Toronto.
The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition has ended with security researchers earning $1,038,500 for 58 zero-day exploits targeting consumer products between October 24 and October 27. During the Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking event organized by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, security researchers targeted mobile and IoT devices.
Security researchers hacked the Samsung Galaxy S23 smartphone two more times on the second day of the Pwn2Own 2023 hacking competition in Toronto, Canada. The contestants also demoed zero-day bugs in printers, routers, smart speakers, surveillance systems, and NAS devices from Canon, Synology, Sonos, TP-Link, QNAP, Wyze, Lexmark, and HP. Interrupt Labs security researchers were the first to demo a Samsung Galaxy S23 zero-day in an improper input validation attack, while the ToChim team exploited a permissive list of allowed inputs to hack Samsun's flagship.
Security researchers hacked the Samsung Galaxy S23 twice during the first day of the consumer-focused Pwn2Own 2023 hacking contest in Toronto, Canada. Pentest Limited was the first to demo a zero-day on Samsung's flagship Galaxy S23 device by exploiting improper input validation weakness to gain code execution, earning $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn points.
City of Toronto is among Clop ransomware gang's latest victims hit in the ongoing GoAnywhere hacking spree.The Clop ransomware gang has hit City of Toronto in its ongoing attacks targeting organizatiosn running the vulnerable GoAnywhere file transfer utility.