Lumen Hit By Separate Ransomware, Malware Attacks
Multibillion-dollar telecommunications firm Lumen Technologies told regulators Monday that it had discovered two cybersecurity incidents, including a ransomware attack that crippled some of its systems, that degraded services for some of its enterprise customers.
Lumen said that it caught the ransomware attack when a “malicious intruder” inserted malware “into a limited number of the Company’s servers that support a segmented hosting service.” The company did not immediately respond to questions about the type of ransomware involved, the scope of the attack, or whether they have attributed it to a specific group. The company said that the incident “is currently degrading the operations of a small number of the Company’s enterprise customers.”
Additionally, the company said that it discovered a separate incident involving an intruder accessing and installing malware on “internal information technology systems,” allowing the cybercriminal to steal “a relatively limited amount of data.”
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