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Steris Touted as Latest Accellion Hack Victim
Data belonging to a client of recently hacked California-based private cloud solutions company Accellion is being advertised for sale online by cyber-criminals.
On the website Clop Leaks, ransomware gang Clop are claiming to have in their possession an unspecified amount of information belonging to the Steris Corporation. Steris is an American Ireland-registered medical equipment company specializing in sterilization and surgical products for the US healthcare system.
Documents that appear to have been stolen include a confidential report about a phenolic disinfectant comparison study dating from 2018 that bears the signatures of two Steris employees technical services manager David Shields and quality assurance analyst Jennifer Shultz.
Bombardier, whose Global 6000 plane is used for Saab s spy system, said it suffered a limited cybersecurity breach. and details from the hack, left, were published by Clop.
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The threat actors stole data and used Clop’s leaks site to demand money in an extortion scheme, though no ransomware was deployed.
Researchers have identified a set of threat actors (dubbed UNC2546 and UNC2582) with connections to the FIN11 and the Clop ransomware gang as the cybercriminal group behind the global zero-day attacks on users of the Accellion legacy File Transfer Appliance product.
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Multiple Accellion FTA customers, including the Jones Day Law Firm, Kroger and Singtel, have all been attacked by the group, receiving extortion emails threatening to publish stolen data on the “CL0P^ - LEAKS” .onion website, according to an investigation from Accellion and FireEye Mandiant. Around 100 companies have been victims of the attack, analysts found, with around 25 suffering “significant data theft.” No ransomware was used in the attacks.