Thought Leadership
3-pillar program
The British government has fleshed out its anti-ransomware strategy. On Tuesday, the Home Office published plans for three key measures: a payment ban for public institutions and critical infrastructure, mandatory reporting before ransom payments are made and a general obligation to report ransomware attacks.
Akira Ransomware
A single password that was too weak was enough to destroy the KNP transport company and put 700 people out of work. To this day, the employee concerned does not know that his compromised password led to the destruction of the company – out of consideration.
Botnet
International authorities take action against a hacker group. Their targets were also in Germany and were intended to disrupt politics and society.
Fake e-mail
Fraudsters posed as a trustworthy supplier and scammed millions with a fake invoice. The investigating authorities were at least able to recover part of the money.
Comment
An unknown individual apparently impersonated US Secretary of State Marco Rubio with deceptively real audio and text messages on the messenger Signal. The aim of the campaign was to influence politicians in the USA and abroad. This is an extremely worrying example of the growing threat posed by deepfakes.
Data leak
In the Islamic Republic, the exile broadcaster “Iran International” is considered a hostile medium. Now there are reports of a major data leak.
DDoS attack
The hours-long IT outage of the Swiss Federal Administration on January 10 had political reasons: Cyber criminals attacked the systems in response to the new ban on veiling.
SafePay ransomware
The IT distributor Ingram Micro has been struggling with outages since Thursday – attackers are said to have penetrated via VPN gateway.
Second incident
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has once again been the target of a hacker attack. The attack took place almost two years after a similar incident.
No impact on air traffic
The Australian airline Qantas has been the victim of a cyber attack.