Welcome back to our blog! It was “just another manic Monday” this week.
In a major development, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of a Ukraine citizen suspected being part of the July ransomware attack on MSPs via Kaseya. Charged in the attack was Ukrainian national Yaroslav Vasinski, who was arrested last month by Polish authorities and is being held pending U.S. extradition proceedings. His alleged cohort, Yevginiy Polyanin, was also charged by the DOG for deploying the ransomware used in the Kaseya attack. Polyanin currently remains at large.
News emerged that electronics retail giant MediaMarkt suffered a Hive ransomware that began late Sunday night. The attackers initially demanded a massive amount: $240 million (but was later lowered). The attack caused the company’s IT systems to shut down as well as disrupt store operations in Netherlands and Germany.
A story in ZDNet discussed a warning from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks the prior weekend about an ongoing hacking campaign already resulting in the compromise of at least nine organizations worldwide from critical sectors, including defense, healthcare, energy, technology, and education. The attacks observed by Palo Alto Networks researchers began in mid-September with scans for vulnerable servers, nine days after the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned it detected exploits used in the wild and one day after a joint advisory was published by CISA, the FBI, and the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER).
On Tuesday, trading platform Robinhood revealed that it experienced a security breach incident on November 3rd. The data of as many as ..
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