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Popular US doughnut chain Krispy Kreme has been having trouble with its online ordering system as well as digital payments at their brick-and-mortar shops since late November, and now we finally know why: an 8-K report filed with the US Securities and … Continue reading Krispy Kreme cybersecurity incident disrupts online ordering
American Water, the largest water and wastewater utility company in the US, has shut down some of its systems following a cyberattack. While the company confirmed that none of its water or wastewater facilities or operations have been negatively affect… Continue reading American Water shuts down systems after cyberattack
More often than not, a cyber attack or a cyber incident that results in business disruption will spur organizations to make changes to improve their cybersecurity and cyber resilience – and sometimes that means changing cybersecurity providers. T… Continue reading Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage
The US Department of Justice has named five Russian computer hackers as members of Unit 29155 – i.e., the 161st Specialist Training Center of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) – which they deem resposible for the… Continue reading Exposed: Russian military Unit 29155 does digital sabotage, espionage
American semiconductor manufacturer Microchip Technology Incorporated has had some of its business operations disrupted by a cyberattack. “As a result of the incident, certain of the Company’s manufacturing facilities are operating at less than n… Continue reading Microchip Technology manufacturing facilities impacted by cyberattack
The world is 16+ hours into what looks like the biggest IT outage in history, triggered by a defective update for Crowdstrike endpoint security software for Windows machines. The price of both Crowdstrike’s and Microsoft’s shares has tumble… Continue reading Update: Worldwide IT outage due to buggy Crowdstrike update
Ransomware attackers wielding a LockBit variant dubbed Brain Cipher have disrupted a temporary national data center facility which supports the operations of 200+ Indonesian government agencies and public services. The attackers are asking for a $8 mil… Continue reading Ransomware disrupts Indonesia’s national data centre, LockBit gang claims US Federal Reserve breach
CDK Global, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider for car dealers and auto equipment manufacturers, has suffered a cyberattack that has temporarily disrupted its customers’ operations. About CDK and its platform CDK’s platform is used by … Continue reading CDK Global cyberattack cripples 15,000 US auto dealerships
Russian national Dmitry Khoroshev is “LockBitSupp”, the creator, developer and administator of the infamous LockBit ransomware group, according to UK, US and Australia law enforcement agencies. The US Justice Deparment has unsealed charges … Continue reading LockBit leader unmasked: US charges Russian national
As the number of real (and fake) victims of ransomware gangs continues to rise, the number of ransomware payments is falling, along with the average ransom payment. The reasons behind this decrease are many: increased cyber resilience of organizations … Continue reading Ransomware operations are becoming less profitable