Hackmanac Cyber Alerts

🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇮🇹Italy - SMEG Smeg, the Italian home appliance company, suffered a cyberattack that disrupted its operations. The attack, which occurred on Friday, September 27th, forced the company to suspend activities at its headquarters in San Girolamo di Guastalla and other branches across Italy. The attack targeted Smeg's SAP management system, which handles key processes such as production, logistics, human resources, and accounting. As a precaution, Smeg sent its employees home and halted production. Full article: https://www.wired.it/article/cyberattacco-smeg-elettrodomestici/

🚨🚨🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇺🇸USA - Emerson Medusa ransomware group claims to have breached Emerson, a leading global technology, software, and engineering company. Allegedly, 938 GB of data, including an Oracle database of their subsidiary company Zedi, were exfiltrated. Ransom demand: $100,000. Ransom deadline: 09th Oct 24.

🟧 #HackTuesday 🟧 Hack Tuesday: Week 25 Sept - 01 Oct 2024 ‼️ 94 victims by 26 hacking groups ‼️ The most active ransomware group this week is Play, claiming responsibility for 13 attacks. The United States is the most affected country, accounting for 49% of the victims. The Manufacturing sector is the hardest hit, representing 27% of the claimed targets, followed by the Professional, Scientific, and Technical sectors, as well as the Wholesale/Retail sectors, both at 11% Overall, the claimed stolen data amounts to approximately 19.5 Terabytes. The average Cyber Risk Factor stands at 4.1. Follow the link for the full list of victims: https://hackmanac.com/news/hack-tuesday-week-25-sept-01-oct-2024 #Hackmanac #HT #Cybersecurity

🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇯🇵Japan - Like Kids Co., Ltd. (ライクキッズ株式会社) On September 30, 2024, Like Kids Co., Ltd. suffered a ransomware attack resulting in unauthorized access to their server. The attackers may have gained access to corporate and personal information, though no confirmed data leaks have been reported yet. Source: like-kd.co.jp

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster Blue is the color of some screens after optional KB5043145 update https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/30/windows11kb5043145/

🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇺🇸USA - Performance Therapies Qilin ransomware group claims to have breached Performance Therapies. Allegedly, exfiltrated data include confidential agreements, financial data, and more.

🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇩🇪Germany - GALAB Laboratories GmbH Cactus ransomware group claims to have breached GALAB Laboratories GmbH. Allegedly, 120 GB of data, including database backups, corporate data, projects/drawings, and corporate correspondence, were exfiltrated.

🚨Cyberattacks Alert - New Ransomware Group Detected: Nitrogen The newly discovered Nitrogen ransomware group claims to have breached six victims: 🇺🇸 USA - MDSi (data amount: 1.1 TB - Leaked) 🇺🇸 USA - Idealease (data amount: 922 GB- Leaked) 🇺🇸 USA - Brechbuhler Scales (data amount: 1.353 TB - Leaked) 🇨🇦 Canada - Magenta Photo (data amount: 1.688 TB - Leaked) 🇺🇸 USA - Spectrum Industries (data amount: 1.1 GB - Leaked) 🇺🇸 USA - Control Panels USA (data amount: 39 GB - Leaked) Further details regarding this ransomware group will be made available as soon as possible.

🚨Cyberattack ‼️ 🇮🇳India - Kill Security ransomware group continues to strike in India, this time targeting the healthcare sector. Two new victims have been added to their data leak site: - Telehealth Center - Credihealth For both affected entities, the cybercriminal group claims to have exfiltrated highly sensitive data, with the ransom payment deadline set for October 8, 2024.

🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇯🇵Japan - BELL DATA, Medusa Demands $300,000 Medusa hacking group claims to have breached BELL DATA. Ransom demand: $300,000. Ransom deadline: 09th Oct 24.

🚨Alert - Major Widespread Outages Reported in the USA. Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Spectrum, and UScellular Affected. Users are reporting being stuck in SOS mode.

🚨Cyberattack ‼️ 🇫🇷France - Media giant AFP hit by cyberattack impacting news delivery services https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/media-giant-afp-hit-by-cyberattack-impacting-news-delivery-services/

🚨🚨🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇧🇷Brazil - TOTVS BlackByte ransomware group claims to have breached TOTVS, the largest technology company in Brazil. Samples have been provided.

🚨 HACKMANAC GLOBAL CYBER ATTACKS REPORT 2024 🚨 📊 Our Global Cyber Attacks Report 2024 is now available! 📈 In this 40+ page study we analyze more than 7,000 known attacks that occurred globally in 2023 and compare them to those of the previous five years (2018-2022), highlighting key trends such as: 🔍 Evolution of cyber threats 🔍 Most targeted industries 🔍 Most used attack techniques 🔍 Types of attackers 🔍 Most dangerous cybercrime gangs 🔍 Attack impact by industry, attacker, etc. 📥 Visit our download area for a free copy of the report ⤵ https://hackmanac.com/hackmanac-global-cyber-attacks-report-2024 #Hackmanac #CyberSecurityReport #CyberThreatMonitoring #CyberAttacks2024 #CyberThreats #CyberRiskManagement #ImpactAnalysis

🚨🚨BREAKING: National Crime Agency (NCA) has brought the seized #LockBit darknet site back online to release additional updates. These include information about a member of Evil Corp identified as a LockBit affiliate, the arrest of a major LockBit actor, and UK arrests tied to LockBit and the monitoring and disruption of LockBit infrastructure. All information will be published tomorrow, October 1, and will remain available until the site is taken down again.

🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇺🇸USA - Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove Medusa hacking group claims to have breached Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Cove. Allegedly, 760.60 GB of data were exfiltrated. Ransom demand: $1,000,000. Ransom deadline: 09th Aug 24.

🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇫🇷France - CDC Biodiversité Blackout hacking group claims to have breached CDC Biodiversité. Allegedly, 70 GB of data, including documents about their clients and projects, were exfiltrated. Ransom deadline: 13th Oct 24.

🚨Cyberattacks Alert ‼️ In the last few hours, Play ransomware group listed eleven new victims on its data leak site: 🇺🇸 USA - Garvey’s Carpet 🇺🇸 USA - Classic Business Products 🇳🇱 Netherlands - Rubber Resources BV 🇸🇪 Sweden - InfraCom Group AB 🇺🇸 USA - G/S Solutions 🇺🇸 USA - Andantex USA 🇺🇸 USA - 4B Components 🇩🇪 Germany - Reutter 🇺🇸 USA - Performance Food Centers 🇺🇸 USA - InteriorWorx Commercial Flooring 🇺🇸 USA - AFFIRM Agency

🚨Cyberattacks Alert ‼️ 🇮🇳India - Kill Security hacking group listed two Indian companies on its data leak site: - Porter - Poorvika Mobiles The data from both companies is for sale.

⚠️ CVE-2024-8353 (CVSS 10): Critical GiveWP Flaw, 100k WordPress Sites at Risk ⚠️ https://securityonline.info/cve-2024-8353-critical-givewp-flaw-100k-wordpress-sites-at-risk/