Communications

February 23, 2023

Satellite TV behemoth Dish Network experienced a network outage last week that was the result of a ransomware attack, company officials said in an 8-K filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The attack appeared to affect Dish.com, the Dish Anywhere app, Boost Mobile (a subsidiary owned by Dish Wireless), and other websites and networks owned and operated by Dish Network. Customers also said the company’s call center phone numbers were unreachable. The attack effected 296,000 individuals.

Dish Network faces multiple class action lawsuits for allegedly making “materially false and misleading statements. The legal actions seek to recover damages for investors who purchased or acquired Dish Network securities between Feb. 22, 2021 and Feb. 27, 2023.

December 1, 2022

The Royal Ransomware gang claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against telecommunications company Intrado on Tuesday.

While Intrado is yet to share any information regarding this incident, sources have told BleepingComputer early this month that the attack started on December 1 and the initial ransom demand was $60 million. The Royal Ransomware group, made up of experienced threat actors and operating without affiliates, has reportedly stolen some data from Intrado’s systems and is now threatening to publish it on their data leak site unless the company pays the ransom. The attackers claim to have obtained internal documents, passports, and employee driver’s licenses from compromised Intrado devices.

Although the ransomware gang has not yet leaked any of the files allegedly exfiltrated from Intrado’s network, they did share a 52.8 MB archive containing scans of passports, business documents, and driver’s licenses as proof of the breach.

Intrado has not yet responded to multiple requests for comment from BleepingComputer via email and voicemail.

October 25, 2022

Arvig experienced a network-wide service outage affecting nearly all of its customers statewide. Beginning at approximately 6:45 a.m., internet, television and most voice services unexpectedly went down. The outage was the result of an apparently unsuccessful cyberattack. The threat was eliminated and services were restored within a matter of hours. ‘Though our investigation of this matter is still in its early stages, to our knowledge at this time, no customer data was exposed, accessed or lost as a result of this attack.” Arvig said in a statement.

December 16, 2017

A recent SEC filing by the voice and language tool vendor outlined a December cyberattack, which impacted the records of 45,000 individuals. While the company was still working to dig out of the June NotPetya incident, a hacker got into a single transcription platform and accessed the records of 45,000 individuals. Officials said they promptly shut down the platform, and the incident was contained to one platform.

June 27, 2017

Nuance Communications, a major voice and language tool vendor, lost $98 million in revenue as a direct result of falling victim to the global NotPetya attack in June 2017, according to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing. That number is projected to increase as they move into 2018 to enhance and upgrade its security.