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Weekly Cybersecurity Report | Week 41, 2024
Information security updates and events from the past week
1 – The Lebanese Al-Mayadeen television channel, affiliated with Hezbollah, announces that it is suffering from a cybersecurity-attack because of which various parties took over the accounts on social networks, the Telegram channel and more.
2 – The WSJ newspaper reports that Chinese attack groups spent months inside the networks of giant telecommunications companies such as Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies and were exposed to information that they used for intelligence purposes.
3 – The largest water and wastewater company in the USA, American Water, reports to the stock exchange that it was forced to disable part of the computer systems due to a cybersecurity – attack. The water supply is ongoing.
4 – The UMC Health company that provides various health services in Texas reports that it is forced to refer patients to other hospitals due to a ransomware attack.
5 – The MoneyGram company continues to update on the attack it is undergoing and claims that the attackers stole sensitive customer information after being on the company’s network for about a week.
6 – The company ADT, which provides various security services, reports an information leak for the second time in two months, after an attacker stole an employee’s identification data to steal information from the corporate network.
7 – Hackers infiltrated the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and compromised the accounts of senior officials, including the president of the agency
In the attack, the hackers took over about 200 accounts, including five directors on JAXA’s board of directors.
The targeted accounts belonged to senior officials involved in policy and budget matters, indicating a strategic attempt to access secret negotiations and planning information.
Over 10,000 files are at risk of being leaked, with more than 1,000 files provided by third parties under non-disclosure agreements
The leaked files included data on international projects, such as NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program and Toyota’s development of a manned lunar rover.
8 – The official website of the Lego company was hacked by attackers who used it to promote a new digital currency while impersonating the Lego company. The attack lasted about 85 minutes, and it seems that the attackers managed to get only a few hundred dollars from it
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/legos-website-hacked-to-push-cryptocurrency-scam/
9 – Ukrainian cybersecurity – attack on the Russian justice system
A Ukrainian attack group managed to gain a foothold in the network of Russia’s judicial system Pravosudie.
According to publications, the attack disrupted the work of the courts, email accounts and websites (according to the videos, servers are simply deleted). At the same time, information about users and internal documents of the Pravosudie system were published.
Russian citizens report that it is not possible to file complaints and watch court hearings because the courts’ website is not active.
10 – Casio reports disruption of some services following a cybersecurity – attack. The company claims that on 5.10 it identified an unauthorized party in the company’s network.
11 – American Water shuts down online services due to a cyber attack
American Water, the largest publicly traded water and wastewater company in the US, was forced to shut down some of its systems after a cyber attack
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