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The Week in Ransomware – October 8th 2021 – Making arrrests

This week’s big news is the arrests of two ransomware operators in Ukraine responsible for hundreds of attacks targeting organizations worldwide. […]

08 Oct

Cox Media Group confirms ransomware attack that took down broadcasts

American media conglomerate Cox Media Group (CMG) confirmed that it was hit by a ransomware attack that took down live TV and radio broadcast streams in June 2021. […]

08 Oct

Intuit warns QuickBooks customers of ongoing phishing attacks

Intuit has warned QuickBooks customers that they are targeted by an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating the company and trying to lure potential victims with fake renewal charges. […]

08 Oct

Twitch game page backgrounds defaced with Jeff Bezos’ face

On Twitch’s website’s game pages today appeared a close up of Jeff Bezos’ face, in what appears to be a mysterious defacement attack. […]

08 Oct

Russian orgs heavily targeted by smaller tier ransomware gangs

Even though American and European companies enjoy the lion’s share in ransomware attacks launched from Russian ground, companies in the country aren’t spared from having to deal with file encryption and double-extortion troubles. […]

08 Oct

Mozilla upgrades older Thunderbird clients to the latest version

Mozilla is rolling out a forced upgrade for Thunderbird 78.x users, getting everyone aboard version 91, the latest stable release that came out in August. […]

08 Oct

Engineering giant Weir Group hit by ransomware attack

Scottish multinational engineering firm Weir Group has disclosed by what it called an “attempted ransomware attack” that led to “significant temporary disruption” in the second half of September. […]

08 Oct

Microsoft: Russian state hackers behind 53% of attacks on US govt agencies

Microsoft says that Russian-sponsored hacking groups are increasingly targeting US government agencies, with roughly 58% of all nation-state attacks observed by Microsoft between July 2020 and June 2021 coming from Russia. […]

08 Oct

BrewDog exposed data for over 200,000 shareholders and customers

BrewDog, the Scottish brewery and pub chain famous for its crowd-ownership model and the tasty IPAs, has irreversibly exposed the details of 200,000 of its shareholders and customers. […]

07 Oct

Google warns 14,000 Gmail users targeted by Russian hackers

Google has warned about 14,000 of its users about being targeted in a state-sponsored phishing campaign from APT28, a threat group that has been linked to Russia. […]

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The Week in Ransomware – October 8th 2021 – Making arrrests

Cox Media Group confirms ransomware attack that took down broadcasts

Intuit warns QuickBooks customers of ongoing phishing attacks

Twitch game page backgrounds defaced with Jeff Bezos’ face

Russian orgs heavily targeted by smaller tier ransomware gangs

Mozilla upgrades older Thunderbird clients to the latest version

Engineering giant Weir Group hit by ransomware attack

Microsoft: Russian state hackers behind 53% of attacks on US govt agencies

BrewDog exposed data for over 200,000 shareholders and customers

Google warns 14,000 Gmail users targeted by Russian hackers