Louisiana Governor John Del Edwards was forced to declare a state of emergency last Friday after suffering a cyberattack that left 10% of the state's computer network servers damaged. Louisiana's Deputy Chief Information Officer, Neal Underwood, claims that the ransomware attack left one in ten of Louisiana's 5,000 computer network servers that power operations across the state damaged in last week's attack.
Macy's has begun notifying some of its online customers that their payment details have been compromised due to Magecart code that compromised parts of their website. The breach notice claims that on October 15, 2019, Macy's was alerted to a suspicious connection between macys.com and another site.
US hosting provider SmarterASP.NET has been hit by a serious ransomware attack that's impacted the websites of its 440,000+ customers. SmarterASP.NET's website and those of its entire customer base went offline yesterday following the attack. According to the notice published today by the company, "Your hosting account was under attack and hackers have encrypted all your data."
Security breaches reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada have skyrocketed since the country introduced its new privacy on November 1, 2018. A blog published by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada claims they have received 680 breach reports within the last year, six times the number they received during the same period just one year prior.
Japanese media firm, Nikkei, was recently scammed out of $29 million dollars after an employee fell for a classic business email compromise (BEC) attack. The firm recently issued a statement claiming that in late September of 2019, an employee of its subsidiary Nikkei America, Inc. transferred $29 million after receiving instructions from a malicious third party claiming to be a management executive at Nikkei.
The small country of Georgia was hit by a cyberattack on Monday, knocking the national TV station and 2,000 websites offline in the nation's largest-ever cyberattack. A local web-hosting provider, Pro-Service, took the blame, claiming one of its servers that powers websites for media organizations, state agencies, and the private sector, was the target of the attack. The attack resulted in roughly 15,000 subscribers of website servers on the Pro-Service server crashing.
Unicredit has reported a breach of its IT systems resulting in the leak of information belonging to over 3 million customers. The bank confirmed on Monday that a file created in 2015 containing three million records involving Italian clients is the source of the security incident. The victims' names, telephone numbers, email addresses, and cities where clients were registered are among the information compromised.
Two U.S. senators have demanded an investigation into Amazon Web Services to determine whether the cloud provider broke the law by failing to secure infrastructure that was compromised in the recent Capital One breach. Paige Thompson, a former AWS software engineer, has been accused of the attack on Capital One and 30 other organizations.
One of the leading producers of automation tools is still experiencing outages after being hit by a ransomware attack over a week ago. German giant Pilz notified the prosecutor's office and the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology after experiencing a coordinated cyberattack on Sunday, October 13. The company has set up an incident response team to identify the source of the attack and mitigate the issue but has warned that these outages will persist for several more days.
Pitney Bowes, the US-based global shipping and eCommerce giant, informed customers on Monday that select services are unavailable due to a piece of ransomware that infected its systems. The company announced on Monday that a piece of ransomware encrypted files on some of its systems, rendering them inaccessible to users.
