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March 11, 2022

Bridgestone Americas confirms ransomware attack by LockBit ransomware gang

On Friday 11th of March 2022, the LockBit ransomware gang announced they had attacked Bridgestone which is the one of the largest manufacturers of tires in the world. Bridgestone had stated back on Sunday 27th of February that they were investigating a potential cyber-attack incident which has been detected in the morning of the 27th of February. But no details […]

March 10, 2022

REvil ransomware affiliate extradited to U.S. to stand trial for Kaseya attack

It has been announced that Yaroslav Vasinskyi, an alleged REvil ransomware affiliate has been extradited to the United States last week to stand trial for the Kaseya cyberattack. He was originally arrested on October 8th of 2021 when he was attempting to enter Poland from his native country of Ukraine. Shortly after his arrest, the U.S. Department of Justice announced […]

March 1, 2022

Toyota shuts down all plants in Japan after cyber-attack on major

On Monday 28th of February 2022, Toyota, the world’s bestselling carmaker had to halt their operations at all their plants in Japan due to one of their suppliers, Kojima Industries Corporation experiencing a system failure which is believed to be due to a cyber-attack. It is believed that the closure will result in a set back of about 13,000 cars. […]

February 27, 2022

U.S. Marshals Service reveal data theft following a ransomware attack

On Monday 27th of February 2023, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), a bureau within the U.S. Justice Department, revealed that they experienced a ransomware attack and had discovered data exfiltration of a stand-alone system on Friday, 17th of February 2023. The USMS has stated they are investigating the theft of sensitive law enforcement information following the ransomware attack and that […]

February 25, 2022

Cyber threat groups pick sides over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The week of the 21st of February 2022 has seen threat actor groups announce their support in relation to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The one of the first announcements were from an administrator of Raidforums which is one of the largest clearnet hacking forums who announced that the forum was blocking all Russia IPs and therefore block any users connecting […]

February 21, 2022

Data breach announced by US’s Largest cookware giant Meyer

On Tuesday 15th of February 2022, Meyer Corporation, the largest cookware distributor in the United States of America informed US Attorney General offices of a data breach because of a cyber-attack against the corporation back in October 2021. It is believed that the corporation became a target for a cyber-attack on October 25, 2021, and therefore in response, they launched […]

January 28, 2022

UK’s leading double-glazing installer Safestyle is hit by ransomware attack

On Friday 28th of January 2022, Safestyle, the UK’s leading retailer and manufacturer of PVCu replacement windows and doors announced that it has recently been the subject of a ransomware attack which resulted in part of their website and IT systems being taken offline. Although they have stated that they have remained operational, continuing to sell, survey, manufacture, install and […]

January 27, 2022

Provider for major tech companies, Delta Electronics suffer ransomware attack by Conti group

On Friday 21st of January 2022, Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese electronics company and a provider for major tech companies like Apple, Tesla, HP, and Dell, disclosed they had experienced a ransomware attack resulted in the encryption of 1,500 servers and 12,000 computers out of roughly 65,000 devices on Delta’s network. Although Delta has claimed that only non-critical systems have been […]

January 15, 2022

Russian police raids against REvil ransomware gang members results in seizure of $6.6 million

On Friday 14th of January 2022, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) in cooperation with the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia conducted police raids at 25 addresses in the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Leningrad and Lipetsk regions, which were linked to 14 members of REvil ransomware gang. The raids resulted […]

Bridgestone Americas confirms ransomware attack by LockBit ransomware gang

REvil ransomware affiliate extradited to U.S. to stand trial for Kaseya attack

Toyota shuts down all plants in Japan after cyber-attack on major

U.S. Marshals Service reveal data theft following a ransomware attack

Cyber threat groups pick sides over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Data breach announced by US’s Largest cookware giant Meyer

UK’s leading double-glazing installer Safestyle is hit by ransomware attack

Provider for major tech companies, Delta Electronics suffer ransomware attack by Conti group

Russian police raids against REvil ransomware gang members results in seizure of $6.6 million

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