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The casualties keep piling up, with many being extorted by the Russian-speaking Clop cybercriminal gang, which threat researchers believe may have bought pilfered data from the hackers.
Mandiant Issues Final Report Regarding Accellion FTA Attack Mandiant validates full remediation of all known security vulnerabilities in the FTA product PALO ALTO, Calif., March 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Accellion, Inc., provider of Kiteworks, the industry’s first enterprise content firewall, today issued a statement with regards to the previously reported cyberattacks on Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance (“FTA”) product. As previously disclosed, Accellion engaged FireEye Mandiant, a leading cybersecurity forensics firm, to conduct an investigation into the sophisticat...
February 22, 2021 Accellion Provides Update to FTA Security Incident Following Mandiant’s Preliminary Findings Mandiant Identifies Criminal Threat Actor and Mode of Attacks GlobeNewswire PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Accellion, Inc., provider of the industry’s first enterprise content firewall, today issued a statement regarding Mandiant’s preliminary findings with regards to the previously reported cyberattacks on Accellion’s legacy FTA product. Mandiant, a division of FireEye, Inc., has identified UNC2546 as the criminal hacker behind the cyberattacks and ...
University of Colorado Reports Cyberattack on System February 17, 2021 The University of Colorado has reported a cyberattack on its software that likely exposed employee, student, health and research records, officials said. University President Mark Kennedy informed the campus communities Tuesday in an email of the “malicious cyberattack'” on software provided by vendor Accellion, calling it “the largest, most complex incident involving data” the system has experienced, The Daily Camera reported. Kennedy said that the software is mainly used by the...
University of Colorado Suffers Large, Complex Cyberattack A January cyberattack against the University of Colorado computer system is being called "the largest, most complex incident involving data" the institution has ever seen. by Katie Langford, Daily Camera / February 11, 2021 Shutterstock/WhataWin (TNS) — A January cyberattack on the University of Colorado is "the largest, most complex incident involving data" the system has ever seen, likely exposing a substantial number of employee, student, health and research records, of...