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Sierra Wireless resumes production after ransomware attack By 10:00 AM Canadian IoT solutions provider Sierra Wireless announced that it resumed production at its manufacturing sites halted after a ransomware attack that hit its internal network and corporate website on March 20. After learning of the attack, the company hired the services of KPMG, one of the world’s leading forensic investigation and cyber incident response firms, to lead Sierra Wireless’ response and investigation into the incident. Siera Wireless IT staff is currently working on restoring its internal systems after bringing back online its corporate website. The Canadian multinational added that the ransomware attack did not impact its customer-facing products and services since the affected internal IT systems are separated. ....
Malware attack is preventing car inspections in eight US states By 06:40 PM A malware cyberattack on emissions testing company Applus Technologies is preventing vehicle inspections in eight states, including Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Utah, and Wisconsin. On Tuesday, March 30th, vehicle emissions testing platform Applus Technologies suffered a malware attack that caused them to disconnect their IT systems. Unfortunately, incidents such as this are fairly common and no one is immune, said Darrin Greene, CEO of the US entity, Applus Technologies, Inc. We apologize for any inconvenience this incident may cause. We know our customers and many vehicle owners rely on our technology and we are committed to restoring normal operations as quickly as possible. ....
PHP s Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code By Yesterday, two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src Git repository maintained by the PHP team on their git.php.net server. The threat actors had signed off on these commits as if these were made by known PHP developers and maintainers, Rasmus Lerdorf and Nikita Popov. RCE backdoor planted on PHP Git server In an attempt to compromise the PHP code base, two malicious commits were pushed to the official PHP Git repository yesterday. The incident is alarming considering PHP remains the server-side programming language to power over 79% of the websites on the Internet. ....
Notorious Maza cybercrime forum attacked by other hackers By 01:34 PM The Maza cybercrime forum was hacked and member data leaked in the latest of a series of attacks targeting mostly Russian-speaking hacker forums. Maza, aka Mazafuka, is one of the oldest cybercrime forums where the rest of the community must vote on aspiring members before they are granted access. Maza is considered to be one of the oldest and elite crime communities with one of the highest barriers of entry for hackers since the days of DirectConnection forum (home of the Dridex operators), cybersecurity intelligence firm Advanced Intel s Vitali Kremez told BleepingComputer. ....
Ransomware gang leaks data from Stanford, Maryland universities By Personal and financial information stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), and the University of California was leaked online by the Clop ransomware group. The threat actors obtained the documents after hacking the universities Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) software used to share and store sensitive information. Data stolen in the attack targeting Stanford Medicine s Accellion server includes names, addresses, email addresses, Social Security numbers, and financial information, reported the Stanford Daily. We discovered the breach earlier this week when the hackers posted evidence that they had accessed a limited number of files in our system containing some personally identifiable information, UMB also told DataBreaches.net. ....