Critical infrastructure services provider Ventia over the weekend announced that it has taken some of its systems offline to contain a cyberattack. Ventia provides long-term management, maintenance, and operations services for critical infrastructure organizations and for private entities across the defense, electricity and gas, environmental services, and water industries. The company says it operates more ..
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Faced with a barrage of ransomware attacks hitting zero-days in its MOVEit product line, Progress Software late Thursday announced plans to release regular service sacks promising a “predictable, simple and transparent process for product and security fixes.” Less than a month after the notorious Cl0p ransomware gang started naming organizations hit by MOVEit zero-day exploits, ..
A 53-year-old man from Tracy, California, has been charged for allegedly hacking into the systems of a water treatment facility in an attempt to delete critical software. The suspect, Rambler Gallo, has been charged with “transmitting a program, information, code, and command to cause damage to a protected computer”, but this is a case of ..
Energy giant Shell has confirmed that personal information belonging to employees has been compromised as a result of the recent MOVEit Transfer hack. The Cl0p ransomware group exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit managed file transfer (MFT) product to steal data from at least 130 organizations that had been using the solution. To date, ..
Interpol on Wednesday announced the arrest of a suspected senior member of the French-speaking cybercrime group known as Opera1er. Also tracked as Common Raven, Desktop-Group, and NXSMS, the cyber gang is believed to have been involved in at least 30 successful attacks against African banks, financial services, mobile banking services, and telecoms firms. Identified in ..
Energy giants Schneider Electric and Siemens Energy have confirmed being targeted by a ransomware group in the recent campaign exploiting a vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit managed file transfer (MFT) software. The Cl0p ransomware group claims to have exploited a MOVEit zero-day vulnerability to access the files of hundreds of organizations that had been using ..
Investigations triggered by the cracking of encrypted phones three years ago have so far led to more than 6,500 arrests worldwide and the seizure of hundreds of tons of drugs, French, Dutch and European Union prosecutors said Tuesday. The announcement underscored the staggering scale of criminality — mainly drugs and arms smuggling and money laundering ..
Some services at Petro-Canada gas stations have been disrupted following a cyberattack on parent company Suncor, one of the largest energy companies in North America. Suncor is a Canada-based company that produces oil and runs several refineries in North America. The organization owns a network of more than 1,800 Petro-Canada retail and wholesale locations. In ..
A British national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the US for his role in hacking schemes targeting cryptocurrency wallets, Twitter accounts, and other social media accounts. The man, Joseph James O’Connor, also known as ‘PlugwalkJoe’, 24, was arrested in Spain in July 2021 and extradited to the US in April this ..
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