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  • "Canadian Supermarket Chain Sobeys Hit by Ransomware Attack"
    Sobeys, a Canadian supermarket and pharmacy chain, is recovering from a cyberattack that might have involved the Black Basta ransomware.  Sobeys is the second largest supermarket chain in Canada and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Empire Company…
  • "Containers: The Ultimate Trojan Horse"
    Containers are designed to be unchangeable. Once created, the image is permanent, and all container instances spawned from it will be identical. Furthermore, because the container is defined as code, its contents, intents, and dependencies are all…
  • "Supply Chain Compromise and Disinformation Rank High in EU's Top 10 Cyber Threats"
    After engaging in an 8-month foresight exercise, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has identified and ranked the top cybersecurity threats expected to emerge by 2030. ENISA's top emerging cybersecurity threats include supply chain…
  • "Australia Considers Ban on Ransomware Payments After Medibank Breach"
    The Australian government recently announced that it is considering banning ransomware payments in response to the Medibank data breach.  The group behind the hack has been linked by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to Russian cyber-criminals…
  • "Ransomware Gang Offers to Sell Files Stolen From Continental for $50 Million"
    LockBit ransomware group is offering to sell files allegedly stolen from German car parts giant Continental for $50 million.  Continental reported in August that it had been targeted in a cyberattack that resulted in hackers accessing some of its…
  • "Thales Denies Getting Hacked as Ransomware Gang Releases Gigabytes of Data"
    French aerospace, defense, and security giant Thales claims to have found no evidence of its IT systems getting breached after a well-known ransomware group published gigabytes of data allegedly stolen from the company.  LockBit last week published…
  • "Man Arrested in Ontario For Alleged LockBit Ransomware Involvement"
    A Russian and Canadian national has recently been charged with conspiracy to intentionally damage protected computers and to transmit ransom demands in connection with the LockBit global campaign.  Mikhail Vasiliev, 33, was apprehended in Bradford,…
  • "New AI Model Can Help Prevent Damaging and Costly Data Breaches"
    Privacy experts at Imperial College London have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm capable of automatically testing privacy-preserving systems for potential data leaks. According to the researchers, this is the first time AI has been…
  • "Knock, Knock: Aiphone Bug Allows Cyberattackers to Literally Open (Physical) Doors"
    A flaw in a number of popular digital door-entry systems offered by Aiphone allows hackers to gain access to the systems by using a mobile device and a Near-Field Communication (NFC) tag. The devices in question, including GT-DMB-N, GT-DMB-LVN, and GT-DB…
  • "Unwanted Emails Steadily Creeping Into Inboxes"
    According to Hornetsecurity research, 40.5 percent of work emails are unwanted. The Cyber Security Report 2023, which examined over 25 billion work emails, also reveals significant changes in the nature of cyberattacks in 2022, showing the ongoing,…
  • "Ukraine Says Russian Hacktivists Use New Somnia Ransomware"
    Russian hackers infected multiple Ukrainian organizations with a new ransomware called 'Somnia.' The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) confirmed the outbreak in an announcement on its portal, attributing the attacks to 'From Russia…
  • "New 'Earth Longzhi' APT Targets Ukraine and Asian Countries with Custom Cobalt Strike Loaders"
    APT41, a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), has been targeting entities in East and Southeast Asia, as well as Ukraine, at least since 2020. Trend Micro, which named the espionage team Earth Longzhi, said the actor's long-running campaign could be…