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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 ...

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 a...

PHPs 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 reposi...

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 sin...

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 Medicines Accellion server inc...

An ongoing phishing operation that stole an estimated 400,000 OWA and Office 365 credentials since December has now expanded to abuse new legitimate services to bypass secure email gateways (SEGs).

800Gbps DDoS extortion attack hits gambling company By 05:31 PM Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks started strong this year, setting new records and taking the extortion trend that started last August to the next level. Internet security services company Akamai has already dealt with the largest known ransom DDoS (RDDoS) attack, which was also more complex than previously seen incidents of the same type. Bigger, more complex RDDoS Akamai says that in February they dealt with “three...

Windows 10 emergency updates released to fix printing crashes By Update: Microsoft now warns of additional issues when printing after installing the March updates. Microsoft has released out-of-band non-security updates to fix a know Windows 10 issue causing blue screens when printing to network printers after installing the March 2021 cumulative updates. According to Microsoft, the cumulative updates released today are addressing "an issue that might cause a blue screen when attempting to p...

Microsoft 365 outage knocks down Teams, Exchange Online By 04:09 PM ​An Azure Active Directory outage is preventing users from logging into Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, Forms, Xbox Live, and Yammer. Starting at approximately 3:34 PM EST, users began reporting being unable to login to their Microsoft 365 accounts, Microsoft Teams, or access other Microsoft apps. It appears @Microsoft365 is having a few issues at the moment; currently unable to access Forms. Hopefully back...