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Thales got hacked with Ransomware this week. The ransomware group LockBit 3.0 have stolen data from the French defense and technology group Thales. Russian hackers have stolen Thales sensitive data including confidential blueprints from their network and they demanded ransom of more than $1 million. The deadline has passed and Thales refused to pay the…

A ransomware attack has crippled the printing systems of the German newspaper Heilbronn Stimme, making it impossible for it to print hard copies of its daily publications. The hackers successfully took down servers responsible for running the printing system. The newspaper was forced to publish 28-page e-paper. Employees were asked to work from home on…

Sobeys, a major Canadian grocery retailer’ has been hacked this week with ransomware attack. Hackers are demanding ransom. Hackers compromised 1,500 Sobeys stores in Canada and made all their systems inoperable, crippling the country’s second-largest supermarket chain. All their computers were down with a message on screen demanding payment or else sensitive files will be…

An online cybersecurity event on Linkedin with 2,500 people already logged in had to be cancelled after hackers launched an attack in the Linkedin event’s chat window. Australian Institute of Company Directors had been scheduled to run an an online event today for nearly 5,000 registrants at which the organization planned to discuss its new “cybersecurity governance…

Kearney has been hit with Lockbit 3.0 ransomware and cybercriminals are threatening to publish stolen data by November 26, 2022, if the company will not pay the ransom. At this time, the ransomware gang has published a sample of the stolen data that includes financial documents, contracts, audit reports, billing documents and much more. Who…

Natural skincare group BWX Flora & Fauna, got hacked this week. Hackers stole credit card details, expiry date, CVV number along with personal details of the company’s customers. Cybercriminals hacked their web servers and inserted malicious code into the Flora & Fauna website. Hackers then transmitted credit card numbers and expiry dates to C&C servers.

Vodafone got hacked. Cybercriminals stole Vodafone customer subscription details, identity documents with sensitive data, passport details, and contact details like email, phone number, date of birth, home address, etc. Vodafone Italia got hacked with massive data breach, via one of its commercial partners, FourB S.p.A., who operates as a reseller of the telecommunications services in the…

ALMA has been hit with a cyberattack that has taken its website offline and forced it to suspend all observations. ALMA helped take the first image of a black hole and it is the largest ground-based astronomical project in the world. ALMA is powered by thousands of astronomers worldwide that rely on its observations and the some 300…

Hackers stole corporate data through a phishing scam, gaining access to the hard drive and shared drives of one of its employees. The data breach is quite serious because the company’s CTO, Rafeh Masood resigned because of this incident. Here is the company’s Form 8K filing to SEC informing shareholders about the hack. In the…

Cybercriminals stole 130GB of private developer Github repositories with source code, credentials and API keys. Hackers gained access to one of its private GitHub accounts using employee credentials stolen in a phishing attack. Password credentials, API keys used by Dropbox developers, names and email addresses belonging to Dropbox employees, current and past customers, sales leads,…