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Identity Attack Watch: May 2021
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Cyberattacks targeting Active Directory are on the upswing, putting pressure on AD, identity, and security teams to monitor the constantly shifting AD-focused threat landscape. To help IT pros better understand and guard against attacks involving AD, the Semperis Research Team offers this monthly roundup of recent cyberattacks that used AD to introduce or propagate malware.
This month, the Semperis Research Team highlights identity-related cyberattacks, including a state-sponsored attack on a U.S. local government that exploited bugs in a Fortinet appliance; the Colonial Pipeline attack, which targeted Windows vulnerabilities; the MountLocker ransomware attack, which exploited Windows Active Directory APIs; and more.
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Medical and personal information stolen from Ireland’s health service in a ransomware attack last week is now being shared online after the service refused to pay the demanded ransom.
The ransomware attack by the Conti ransomware was first detected on the health service’s IT systems late last week, crippling diagnostic services, disrupting COVID-19 testing and forcing hospitals to cancel appointments.
Disruptions are ongoing today. Ireland’s Health Services Executive advised that patients needing nonurgent care will experience long delays from “IT issues and manual work arrangements.”
“This criminal ransomware attack has had a significant impact on hospital appointments and there continues to be major disruptions,” the HSE said. “Work continues today in assessing the impact and beginning to restore HSE IT systems. This work will take many weeks and we anticipate major disruption will continue due to the shutdown of our IT systems.”
Twitter unveils its subscription service, remote worker engagement comes into question, and Ireland Health Services is hit with a ransomware attack.
It’s all the tech news that’s got people buzzing right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Monday, May 17 and I’m your host Alex Coop.
Twitter is introducing a tiered service called Twitter Blue. While it’s unclear when Twitter’s subscription service will roll out, the social media giant says it has tested multiple new features. These tested features include the ability to undo tweets, and a fee for using the Tweetdeck dashboard app and Super Follows.
Insurer AXA hit by ransomware after dropping support for ransom payments
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Branches of insurance giant AXA based in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have been struck by a ransomware cyber attack.
As seen by BleepingComputer yesterday, the Avaddon
ransomware group claimed on their leak site that they had stolen 3 TB of sensitive data from AXA s Asian operations.
Additionally, BleepingComputer observed an ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) against AXA s global websites making them inaccessible for some time yesterday.
The compromised data obtained by Avaddon, according to the group, includes customer medical reports (exposing their sexual health diagnosis), copies of ID cards, bank account statements, claim forms, payment records, contracts, and more.