October 9, 2021

The Week in Ransomware – October 8th 2021 – Making Arrrests This week’s big news is the arrests of two ransomware operators in Ukraine responsible for hundreds of attacks targeting organizations worldwide. The US is also proposing new bills and initiatives to force companies to disclose ransom payments and government contractors to Read more…

Cox Media Group Confirms Ransomware Attack That Took Down Broadcasts American media conglomerate Cox Media Group (CMG) confirmed that it was hit by a ransomware attack that took down live TV and radio broadcast streams in June 2021. The company acknowledged the attack in data breach notification letters sent today via U.S. Read more…

Intuit Warns QuickBooks Customers Of Ongoing Phishing Attacks Intuit has warned QuickBooks customers that they are targeted by an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating the company and trying to lure potential victims with fake renewal charges. The company said it received reports from customers that they were emailed and told that their QuickBooks plans Read more…

Twitch Game Page Backgrounds Defaced With Jeff Bezos’ Face On Twitch’s website’s game pages today appeared a close up of Jeff Bezos’ face, in what appears to be a mysterious defacement attack. It’s been a rough week for Twitch, with threat actors claiming on Wednesday that they breached the company Read more…

Russian Orgs Heavily Targeted By Smaller Tier Ransomware Gangs Even though American and European companies enjoy the lion’s share of ransomware attacks launched from Russian ground, companies in the country aren’t spared from having to deal with file encryption and double-extortion troubles of their own. The actors who trouble Russian Read more…

Mozilla Upgrades Older Thunderbird Clients To The Latest Version Mozilla is rolling out a forced upgrade for Thunderbird 78.x users, getting everyone aboard version 91, the latest stable release that came out in August. A similar forced upgrade was performed last year for users of 68.x who were automatically bumped Read more…

Engineering Giant Weir Group Hit By Ransomware Attack Scottish multinational engineering firm Weir Group has disclosed an “attempted ransomware attack” that led to “significant temporary disruption” in September. “The Group is currently managing the consequences of a sophisticated attempted ransomware attack that occurred in the second half of September,” the Read more…

Microsoft: Russian State Hackers Behind 53% Of Attacks On US Govt Agencies Microsoft says that Russian-sponsored hacking groups are increasingly targeting US government agencies, with roughly 58% of all nation-state attacks observed by Microsoft between July 2020 and June 2021 coming from Russia. “Russian nation-state actors are increasingly targeting government agencies for Read more…