Tag: Ransomware

I’ve decided that the theme of this week’s blog will meander a bit more than usual, since there’s a couple of topics to check off the list. First off, I wish you all the best health as it feels like it’s finally transitioning to fall here in Arizona. That’s normally the time of year when bugs start going around. This might be the first year on record that the virus you have to watch out for is a computer virus. I want to say the past two months have been host...

ATLANTA – A technology outage that impacted rail operations for the Norfolk Southern Corp. late Friday evening on Sept. 29 has been ruled not to be the result of a cyber attack following an update from the company on Saturday. On Friday evening, Norfolk Southern's data center experienced an outage that impacted rail operations that included their dispatching system, train movements, and functionality of their terminal operating system. Operations were halted until the...

CORK, Ireland – A data breach has resulted in a large-scale ransomware attack perpetrated against Johnson Controls International. The news comes courtesy of a regulatory filing made on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, in which Johnson Controls details a cybersecurity incident that affected portions of its internal information technology infrastructure and applications, according to the filling. While the company notes it has implemented workarounds for affected systems and said that...

Onomatopoeia? More like I-don’t-want-to-pay-ya. That’s right, this week I want to talk about the out-of-control rise of ransomware. There were some other hot topics this week, like NAPCO’s sudden misfortune, but I’d like to hear from their earnings call next week for full context. Besides, all weekend I have heard about nothing but more and more ransomware incidents hitting some notable names. I shouldn’t be surprised to hear about it either. According to the NCC...

HOUSTON – The Action1 Corporation, a provider of a risk-based patch management platform has launched a free tool designed to empower IT teams in detecting compromised MOVEit instances and defending against ransomware attacks exploiting this vulnerability. Security Systems News briefly covered the initial effects of the MOVEit data breach which have continued to grow in scale and the number of victims. In order to help organizations mitigate the threat of MOVEit vulnerability, Action1...

A bad situation has continued to grow worse as the MOVEit exploit used by the CLOP ransomware gang has begun to stack up more victims. I wrote an article, a brief one, a couple of weeks ago detailing how the data breach had affected a number of state agencies that included the Motor Vehicle Departments of Louisiana and Oregon to name a few. In short, a lot of personal information made it into the hands of hackers, at least 6 million records alone from Louisiana. Things haven’t gotten...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A data breach affecting millions of citizens occurred in mid-June after a cyber attack targeted an exploit in a popular file transfer software. An exploit in the MOVEit software developed by Progress Software led to hackers breaching multiple state and federal agencies including the Motor Vehicle Departments in Louisiana and Oregon among others, where customers have had their driver’s license and state ID cards exposed. Carlie Kollath Wells reporting for Axios wrote...

GREENVILLE, S.C. – ScanSource, Inc., a hybrid distributor connecting devices to the cloud, announced that it was affected by a ransomware attack that impacted some of its systems. The company discovered the intrusion on May 14, 2023, and immediately launched an investigation into the attack while implementing its Incident Response Plan. In the company’s official release, ScanSource said it is actively managing the incident and are taking steps toward remediation. “The...

DALLAS – On May 3, the City of Dallas found itself dealing with a Royal ransomware attack that knocked its police department website offline and infected multiple servers. Though the attack was being managed according to the city’s incident response plan, with the city working to isolate the ransomware and prevent its spread, its impact was ultimately limited to a small amount of local government services and its police department website. As of its most recently published update,...

YARMOUTH, Maine – The numbers are in, and the results are rather brisk and breezy in reader responses from this month’s SSN News Poll. In discussing the prevalence and explosion of data breaches and ransomware events, Security Systems News asked readers to chime in and give their thoughts on what were the best practices when handling the fallout from malware-related events. Let’s break down your responses below: What is the best way to reduce or eliminate the possibility and...