Marco De Felice reports: Morgan County in Missouri is one of the latest government institutions affected by the DoppelPaymer ransomware group. The ransomware group, during the attack on the County’s computer systems, exfiltrated sensitive documents and some of them were posted on the dark web. Read more on SuspectFile.
Vyacheslav Kopeytsev and Seongsu Park write: We named Lazarus the most active group of 2020. We’ve observed numerous activities by this notorious APT group targeting various industries. The group has changed target depending on the primary objective. Google TAG has recently published a post about a campaign by Lazarus targeting security researchers. After taking a closer...
WCED News reports: People associated with Clearfield County and the Clearfield County Courthouse could have been affected by a cyber attack on the county’s computer network in January. The county has sent out written notification letters to anyone who might have been affected by the data breach. That letter also includes steps that you...
Tom Pullar-Strecker reports: A ransomware gang appears to be releasing confidential data obtained from the hack of customers of US software company Accellion, raising fears that New Zealand banks may be next to have data exposed. The Reserve Bank admitted it had been subject to a serious data breach in January, which occurred when...
Ransomware attacks fuelled increase in data theft in 2020, says IBM Security