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The Canadian airplane manufacturer has today revealed that it suffered a security breach. In a press release, Bombardier disclosed that some of its data has been published on the dark web portal operated by the Clop ransomware gang: "An initial investigation revealed that an unauthorized party accessed and extracted data by exploiting a vulnerability affecting a third-party file-transfer application, which was running on purpose-built servers isolated from the main Bombardier IT network." In December 2020...

Research has shown that in the past year cyberattackers have increasingly targeted healthcare organisations for deploying ransomware and other cyber-attacks. The annual X-Force Threat Intelligence research was released on Wednesday, which tracks the evolution of new threats, malware development and cyberattacks. The most notable trend was how many threat actors targeted their malicious campaigns at organisations involved in fighting the coronavirus pandemic throughout the last year. In fact, the research suggests that these organisations suffered...

Accellion systems are used to share and store files by as many as 300 organisations all around the world. Recently, they suffered a data breach following an attack linked to the ransomware gangs, Clop and FIN11. Accellion has claimed that less than 100 customers were affected by the attack, including Transport for New South Wales. Transport for New South Wales has confirmed that data was stolen, saying "before the attack on Accellion servers was interrupted,...

Sequoia Capital, one of the most famous venture capital firms in Silicon Valley announced that it suffered a data breach. The firm officially referred to it as a "cybersecurity incident", in which investor data, including personal information, was likely stolen. The attack vector is alleged to have been a phishing link received by an employee. It is still unclear whether malware or ransomware was involved in the attack, however investors have already been informed of...

Unknown individuals have been impersonating Austin Energy in an attempt to scam customers. The scammers were threatening to cut customers' power unless a fictitious overdue bill was paid immediately. They typically requested reloadable prepaid debit cards or other non-traceable form of payments. As a result, Austin Energy warned: "Scammers are trying to take advantage of our customers in the aftermath of the winter storm," and told customers to be weary of any phone calls received...

Security concerns have recently arisen concerning the popular audio chatroom app Clubhouse. The app's users privacy policy has been questioned in the past, with the app saying it would take steps to ensure user data could not be accessed by malicious hackers. However, news has broken that the app has now suffered a data breach after a third-party developer created an open-source app that enabled Android users to access the iPhone service.  

A new report from Virtana reveals that most organisations are forcing to revert some of their applications back to on-prem infrastructure. 350 IT professionals were included in the report, which found that 72% had moved at least one app back onto on-prem, siting various reasons for their decision to do so. Some realised after that apps shouldn't have been moved in the first place, or there were too many issues with public cloud provisioning. On...

Automatic Funds Transfer Services was targeted in a ransomware attack on the 3rd of February. The  payment processor is used by many cities and agencies throughout the US. The data used for billing and verifying customers and residents is extremely varied, leading researchers to believe the attack could have had a massive and widespread impact. The cybergang responsible, known as "Cuba Ransomware", stole unencrypted files and deployed the ransomware, causing significant disruption to AFTS' business...

The People's Postcode Lottery has issued a statement warning players of a phishing scam which offers £1,000 in exchange for personal details. The scam claims to be from the People's Postcode Lottery and states that players have won £1,000 after their postcode was drawn fourth place. In order to retrieve the cash prize, players must send over a picture of their passport or driving licence along with a selfie. The statement by the People’s Postcode...

The Californian Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has suffered a data breach that could have possibly exposed over a year's worth of data after a third-party contractor was compromised during a cyberattack. During this breach customer addresses and licence plate numbers were exposed, but the DMV has confirmed that social security numbers, birthdates, voter registration, immigration status or driver’s licence information were not. Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS) is a financial service and data management...