Hacker group "Black Basta" steals account numbers of employees of Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Following a hacker attack on Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), management informed employees that the perpetrators were able to steal salary slips and sensitive data such as account numbers of nearly 1500 employees. The specialist cybercrime unit of the Hamburg State Criminal Police Office (LKA) has taken over the case.
The hacker group "Black Basta" is said to be responsible for the ransomware attack in early October. These stated in the Darknet to possess the data. It is assumed that the hacker group wants to extort ransoms in the millions.
Cyber attack on media center: 75 schools victims of ransomware attack
After a cyber attack on the media center near Munich, 75 schools in Upper Bavaria lack access to data. The ransomware attack occurred on October 20, the affected school facilities have been informed. An infiltrated malware program encrypted the data. The perpetrators demanded a ransom and threatened to publish the data on the darknet. It is not yet known how many hackers were behind the attack, all traces were covered. However, general teaching operations are said not to have been restricted as a result. The attack was discovered within minutes and the connection between the servers and the Internet was severed. In addition, it is not assumed that the data could have fallen into the hands of others, because they were already encrypted. Merely the hacker had encrypted them only one more time.
Newspapers cannot be printed: "Heilbronner Stimme" significantly restricted after hacker attack
In mid-October, a hacker attack occurred on the newspaper "Heilbronner Stimme". Systems were encrypted, the operation had to completely reorganize to communicate and produce the e-paper. Printing of the newspaper was also temporarily suspended. In addition, it still had to find out which devices were affected by the cyber attack. All this costs a lot of time, IT security experts are working on solutions. A well-known hacker group is said to be responsible. Despite the company's strong protection, the cyberattack could not have been prevented.
Source: "Heilbronner Stimme" back in mailbox after cyber attack - SWR Aktuell
Hackers steal nearly 300.000 e-mail addresses of customers at Toyota
Nearly 300,000 e-mail addresses and the corresponding administration number could be stolen by cyber criminals from users of Toyota's online service T-Connect. No other data is said to have been leaked. However, Toyota warns that the addresses can be misused for phishing campaigns. Apparently, the hackers were able to penetrate via a vulnerability at a supplier, this had namely published a part of the source code via Github by mistake in 2017.
Source: Cyber attack on Toyota: Data of 300,000 customers probably stolen | Netzwoche
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