Extortion
Swiss rail giant Stadler rejects $12.3M ransom demand after cyberattack
Swiss rail vehicle manufacturer Stadler Rail says the Everest ransomware gang demanded about $12.3 million after breaching a data exchange platform shared with one of its suppliers. The threat actor has not publicly claimed the attack, but the Swiss company says that it received an extortion letter from Everest ransomware asking for a ransom of […]
Abbott probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims
Abbott Laboratories is investigating two separate cybersecurity incidents after confirming unauthorized access to internal legacy Exact Sciences systems in its Cancer Diagnostics business, while also investigating a separate claim that attackers breached its LabCentral portal and stole company data. The company confirmed the Cancer Diagnostics incident after the ShinyHunters extortion gang added Abbott to its […]
Former ransomware negotiator gets 4 years for BlackCat attacks
A former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint was sentenced to 70 months in prison for targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks. The FBI linked the BlackCat ransomware gang to more than 60 breaches between November 2021 and March 2022, adding in a separate advisory that the cybercrime group had collected at least $300 million […]
New Helix vishing group emerges in SharePoint data theft attacks
A new data-extortion group called Helix is using identity-focused tactics such as voice phishing (vishing), device code phishing, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) abuse to steal data from SharePoint environments. Initial contact is made through vishing. In some cases, the threat actor called employees while impersonating their manager, using either the manager’s name or caller ID […]
Mount Royal University confirms breach as hackers claim attack
Mount Royal University in Calgary says hackers stole and then deleted data from its file storage systems after breaching the university’s network. In an update published on its website, MRU states that it has engaged technical teams and external cybersecurity experts to investigate the incident and to support recovery efforts following a cyberattack on June […]
Entra passkey enrollment vishing targets Microsoft 365 users
A threat actor has been targeting organizations across multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that ask Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey. The attacker is taking advantage of a new capability Microsoft opened to administrators in May, allowing them to run “passkey registration campaigns” to entice users to enrol passkeys for […]
Blackfield ransomware asks Nidec Corporation for $2 million ransom
The Blackfield ransomware gang is asking for a $2 million ransom from Nidec Corporation, a large Japanese manufacturer of electronic components for automotive and computing applications. Nidec is a leader in producing motors of all sizes, from micro-precision ones used in phones and hard drives to heavy-duty motors for robotics, elevators, and large HVAC systems. […]
NAIC says public data stolen in ShinyHunters’ PeopleSoft breach
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) says the ShinyHunters extortion group stole only publicly available data, outdated logs, and configuration files after breaching its systems by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in an Oracle PeopleSoft server. NAIC is a U.S. insurance regulatory organization present in all 50 states. The organization identified on June 11 that […]
Tata Electronics confirms cyberattack as hackers leak data
Tata Electronics has confirmed in a statement to GeekFeed that it was the target of a cyberattack that impacted parts of its IT infrastructure. The company emphasizes that its operations continued to run normally and were not affected by the incident. “A few weeks ago, Tata Electronics identified a cybersecurity incident on some of our […]
New Prinz Eugen ransomware prioritizes recent files for encryption
A new ransomware operation named ‘Prinz Eugen’ prioritizes recently modified files for encryption and leaves no ransom note on the system. An investigation from Threatdown, the former corporate business unit of Malwarebytes, found that the Prinz Eugen hackers have a hands-on-keyboard style and prefer to use legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software and living-off-the-land […]