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ALPHV-BlackCat puts data from Meyer & Meyer on the dark web
24 January 2023
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Behind the attack on the Osnabrück logistics company Meyer & Meyer is the APT group ALPHV or BlackCat. Various company documents are published on their leak page on the dark web. Already on December 6th there was a successful cyber attack on the systems of the well-known textile logistics company Meyer & Meyer. When visiting its website, the company still states that it is working on the consequences of the cyber attack. Meyer & Meyer openly communicated the attack on its systems, but did not provide any further information on the scope and the exact effects. Individual data on the dark web…

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British Post is a LockBit ransomware victim
14 January 2023
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According to the British Post's website, they were unlucky on Friday the 13th: the Royal Mail was the victim of a cyber attack and is currently unable to process international mail. Apparently, an affiliate partner struck with the LockBit ransomware. The first thing that came to mind at the Royal Mail was the LockBit group, when the machines were encrypted and a ransom note was printed out. However, in this case only the LockBit tools, i.e. the ransomware, were used by an affiliate partner. These partners leverage LockBit's ransomware and infrastructure, and give a high percentage...

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Cyber ​​attack on logistics company Meyer & Meyer
18 December 2022
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Cyber ​​attack: The list of well-known German companies that were victims of an attack has grown: the Osnabrück logistics company Meyer & Meyer with 1.800 employees and a turnover of 200 million. A lot of things have to be done manually at the moment. Already on December 6th there was a successful cyber attack on the systems of the well-known textile logistics company Meyer & Meyer. The company can still be reached, but various processes had to be converted to good old manual work. Meyer & Meyer openly communicated the attack on its systems, but did not provide any further information on...

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DDoS attack on the website of the EU Parliament
24 November 2022
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The website of the EU Parliament was temporarily unavailable because it was paralyzed by a DDoS attack, according to Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament. A group close to the Kremlin is said to have claimed responsibility for the attack. The website and all services were not available during the day on Wednesday, November 23.11rd. The press officer of the EU Parliament, Jaume Duch, announced via Twitter that “the site is not available due to a DDoS attack. Some services of the EU Parliament are currently disrupted by the targeted overload”. Late in the evening, Jaume Duch reported via Twitter that the DDOS attack had been contained...

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LockBit 3.0 publishes data from medical technology companies
22 November 2022
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LockBit had already attacked the medium-sized medical technology company Richard Wolf at the beginning of November, partially encrypting the systems and looting data. Since the company refused to pay, the stolen data is now on the dark web. The globally active, medium-sized medical technology company Richard Wolf fell victim to a successful LockBit 3 attack on November 3.0rd. This was followed in a classic process by encrypting some systems and extracting some data. No ransom paid to LockBit However, the company did not agree to the blackmail and did not pay any ransom. Meanwhile, LockBit has the…

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6 million DDoS attacks worldwide
19 November 2022
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There were 2022 DDoS attacks worldwide in the first half of 6.019.888. In EMEA, DNA amplification attacks were among the top 364,261 vector attacks with a count of 20. This tool is a boost attack for a DDoS attack. This is how it expires. DNS amplification attacks took second place in the first half of 2022 as well as in the second half of 2021, according to the current Threat Intelligence Report from NETSCOUT. In this type of DDoS attack, an enormous amount of data is directed onto the victim's Internet connection by abusing DNS name resolution in order to overload this connection. By removing IP addresses using IP spoofing...

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Is Continental a victim of LockBit?
8 November 2022
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While Continental already spoke in a statement on its website in August 2022 that the attack had been averted, the ransomware group LockBit announced on its leak page that data captured by Continental had been published. According to the chat log, apparently 40 terabytes of data. The APT group LockBit claims that it has successfully hacked and stolen data from the automotive supplier Continental. Now the data is to be published on the leak page, probably to increase the pressure on Continental. However, Continental has not published any information on a current attack. According to the chat log on the LockBit leak page,…

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Ransomware attack on German press agency dpa
18 October 2022
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As the mirror reports, the German Press Agency (dpa) was probably hit by a hacker attack. The mirror has an internal email in which the employees are informed. Apparently ransomware has struck and encrypted systems. The list of ransomware attacks is growing prominently. Because according to Spiegel, the attack on the German Press Agency – dpa for short – was successful. However, it is not yet entirely clear whether the dpa structure is affected or whether only one service provider was hit. It is not clear whether the attack will affect the production of the dpa, although...

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Cyber ​​attack on ERP service provider Wilken
17 October 2022
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The cyber attack on the Wilken Software Group took place on Wednesday, October 12th. The ERP service provider and data center operator immediately reported the attack on its website and assured that the websites and offers of the hosted companies are not in danger. The attack on Wilken apparently only hit the administrative level. The company was only partially accessible via the individual channels in the last few days. The website openly informs visitors about the attack and the current steps. This is how we can learn about constant updates: “Furthermore, the hosted customer environments,…

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Baby food manufacturer Hipp probably suffers a hacker attack
11 October 2022
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According to the Bavarian radio and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the baby food manufacturer Hipp was probably the victim of a hacker attack. Officially, Hipp says nothing about it. However, the Hipp website informs users that the HiPP service center cannot be reached by telephone. An indication? A few days ago, the well-known baby food manufacturer Hipp seems to have been hit by a hacker attack. Bavarian radio claims to have received an internal email as evidence, informing them of the attack. The mail was probably sent to all employees of the company. It is said to have stated verbatim that "the IT systems of the Hipp Group...

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