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Panasonic suffers yet another cyber attack

Panasonic suffers yet another cyber attack

The breach is the second attack in six months. Panasonic has confirmed its Canadian operations were hit by a cyberattack, less than six months after the company last fell victim to hackers. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, Panasonic said that it was a victim of a “targeted cybersecuri... Read more

date1 year ago
MountLocker ransomware is now spreading via criminal affiliates

MountLocker ransomware is now spreading via criminal affiliates

Security researchers at Blackberry say that a new strain of ransomware has popped up that uses affiliates to spread malware. Since July, the researchers say that MountLocker has been available as ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) and was updated this November to broaden the file types it targets and h... Read more

date2 years ago
IBM Security X-Force sees surge in ransomware attacks in June

IBM Security X-Force sees surge in ransomware attacks in June

The amounts demanded as ransom are also exploding, up to as much as $40 million. IBM reports that as of September 2020, one in four attacks that its Security X-Force Incident Response has remediated this year have been caused by ransomware. In addition, ransomware incidents appeared to explo... Read more

date3 years ago