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Cyberattack Against Two Major French Media Outlets

March 23, 2024

Several Altice group media outlets were confronted with a cyberattack . According to the two media, this action was claimed by the Epsilon group. Altice Médias group were affected, including those of BFMTV, RMC, RMC Sport, “Estelle Midi”, “Apolline Matin” and “Les Grandes gueules”.

“Well then @KremlinRussia_E we lost members? That’ll teach you to speak badly of President Macron” could be read on these X accounts. Another message, accompanied by the hashtag #FreePalestine, claimed responsibility for the attack by attributing it to the Epsilon group, a group of hackers behind the theft of personal data from some of the customers of the IT brand LDLC in early March

Cyberattack on Street Newspaper in United Kingdom

March 26, 2024

The Big Issue Group experienced a cyber incident. “On becoming aware of this, we took immediate steps to restrict access to our systems, working with external IT security experts, and the investigation into the incident is ongoing,” said the company’s chief executive Paul Cheal.

Broadcasting of Ukrainian TV Interrupted

March 28, 2024

One of Ukraine’s main media companies, 1+1 Media, said its satellite TV channels had suffered a cyberattack on Wednesday. It said in a statement that 39 channels, including some of its own, were currently unavailable. Ukraine’s 24 Channel said on its website that its satellite broadcast had also been affected as hackers “launched their propaganda”. “After two hours of the attack, the signal was restored, but the attack started again,” it said.

European provider SES that operates Astra told Reuters a few dozen video distributors in Europe faced outages caused by “external radio frequency interference” on Wednesday. It added that satellites were safe.

Australian Call Center Operator Hit by Lockbit Ransomware Attack

April 4, 2024

Nissan Oceania has revealed the call centre it set up to handle customer inquiries after a cyber incident late last year has itself been breached. The car maker said it enlisted OracleCMS, which operates call centers across Australia, to manage the “dedicated cyber incident call centre” it set up after a December 5 breach that impacted up to 100,000 customers.

LockBit appears to be behind the attack on OracleCMS. LockBit has published more than 60 gigabytes of data in a single compressed archive. A folder named “clients” contains more than 50 folders for organizations, ranging from local councils to aged-care services. OracleCMS has so far declined to comment on the incident

Irish Telecommunications Company Hit by Cyberattack

April 8, 2024

Telecoms company Magnet+ is investigating a possible breach of its systems that may have exposed the private information of staff and customers.

The incident, which took place on April 8th, was picked up by the company’s internal IT security systems. Magnet+ said it disconnected all potentially affected servers from the company’s network, stopping the onslaught.

BT Group Shuts Down Some of its Servers after Black Basta Ransomware Attack

December 4, 2024

Multinational telecommunications giant BT Group (formerly British Telecom) confirmed its BT Conferencing business division shut down some of its servers following a Black Basta ransomware breach. “The impacted servers do not support live BT Conferencing services, which remain fully operational, and no other BT Group or customer services have been affected.”

Black Basta ransomware gang claimed they stole 500GB of data, including financial and organizational data, “users data and personal docs,” NDA documents, confidential information, and more.

Hackers Post Fabricated Statements on Czech Press Agency (ČTK) News Site

April 23, 2024

An unknown attacker posted fabricated texts that were not produced by ČTK on the news website Česká noviny (ČN), which is operated by the Czech Press Agency (ČTK).

It was a text with the headline “BIS prevented an assassination attempt on newly elected Slovak President Petr Pelligrini” and a fabricated extraordinary statement by Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský on the same. The attacker placed it on the ČN website in Czech and English. The disinformation was also published with relevant notifications in the ČN mobile application.

The news was removed from the České noviny website and access was blocked.

Disruptive Cyberattack Affects Content Management System at Large UK Media Group, Newsquest

December 11, 2023

A cyberattack at Newsquest, one of the UK’s largest regional media groups, has disrupted operations at its local news outlets, causing intermittent website outages and leaving journalists unable to file stories.

UK’s Hold the Front Page (HTFP) online news site for journalists posted : The attack is affecting content management systems, causing websites to malfunction, and leaving journalists unable to upload stories, images, and media.

Local British News Sites Targeted in Coordinated Cyber Campaign

May 11, 2024

Dozens of regional titles owned by Newsquest were targeted in a coordinated cyber campaign over the weekend. The news sites were defaced with stories entitled “Pervoklassniy Russian Hackers Attack”, which were accompanied by a black and white logo. The articles were attributed in Russian script to an author named “Daniel Hopkins”.

Another story, which appeared on the Bolton News website, showed a picture of the Russian flag alongside the headline: “Our president has gone crazy, shock content.” The articles, which first appeared over the weekend, have since been taken down.

A Newsquest spokesman said: “For a brief period on Saturday 11th May, a limited amount of unauthorized content was posted to Newsquest sites. We acted immediately and removed the content with no further disruption.”

USA Amateur Radio Association Operations Disrupted for Months after Cyberattack

May 16, 2024

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) announced that it suffered a cyberattack that disrupted its network and systems and online operations, including email and the Logbook of the World.

“We are in the process of responding to a serious incident involving access to our network and headquarters-based systems. Several services, such as Logbook of The World and the ARRL Learning Center, are affected,” explained ARRL in a press release.

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