The Malawi government reportedly has suspended issuing passports for the past two weeks due to what appears to be a ransomware attack on the immigration service’s computer network. President Lazarus Chakwera said the hackers are demanding a ransom, but the Malawi government has no intention of paying as it refuses to “appease criminals” or negotiate […]
The municipality of Korneuburg in Austria said it was hit by a ransomware attack, leading to funerals reportedly being canceled and the town hall informing residents its staff can only be reached via telephone. The small town on the banks of the Danube a few kilometers north of Vienna has a population of under 13,000 […]
Pro-Ukraine hackers have reportedly breached a Russian scientific research center, Ukraine’s defense intelligence directorate (GUR) said. According to GUR’s report on Wednesday, the hacker group called “BO Team” attacked the State Research Center on Space Hydrometeorology, also known as “Planeta,” and destroyed its database and valuable equipment. Planeta is a Russian state enterprise that receives […]
Pharmaceutical giant Merck has reportedly reached a settlement with insurers over their refusals to cover losses stemming from the NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The undisclosed settlement, first reported by Bloomberg Law, is the culmination of a years-long court battle that has attracted attention from the cybersecurity and insurance industries because of its implications for defining […]
The source code for Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA 5) has reportedly been leaked. This comes over a year after the Lapsus$ hacking group hacked Rockstar Games and stole company data.
The BlackCat ransomware group has reportedly targeted Ho Chi Minh City Energy Company, a subsidiary of Vietnam Electricity. The alleged EVNHCMC data breach has raised concerns, prompting the hacker group ALPHV to threaten to report the incident to the Vietnam Department of Energy. The situation is unfolding, with 84 samples from the Vietnam Electricity data […]
Reportedly, the ransomware operators breached HSE by stealing passwords for HSE’s systems from an unprotected cloud storage instance. So far, the organization has not received a ransom demand but stated that it might be too early for this.
A cyberattack suspected to be carried out by a pro-Russia hacking group reportedly resulted in widespread service disruptions at several Canadian airports. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) confirmed to Recorded Future News that the connectivity issues that affected check-in kiosks and electronic gates at airports last week are the result of a distributed denial […]
Developers for popular online platform game Roblox are being reportedly targeted with information-stealing malware. An unknown malicious actor has been seeding dozens of open-source software packages with malware referred to as ‘LunaGrabber’, beginning on August 1, 2023. Developers have been tricked into clicking on the malware-ridden software packages as they are disguised as commonly used […]