July 3, 2024
Soon Lian Holdings announced they suffered a ransomware attack on the evening of July 3. The group said there has been no significant impact to its business operations and that it activated its business continuity plan immediately after.
March 29, 2024
Australian mining company, Northern Minerals, fell victim to a cybersecurity breach back in March that led to data stolen appearing on a publishing site on the dark web, officials said Tuesday.
Northern Minerals mines and develops heavy rare earth elements like dysprosium and terbium. These materials end up used in electronics, batteries, and aircraft.
The miner revealed the threat actors stole data from its systems in late March and then published it on the dark web.
April 15, 2023
Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) fell victim to a cyberattack that saw confidential corporate data get disclosed to the public last year, according to an exclusive scoop by Toronto-based newspaper The Star.
The data breach took place some time in April 2023. The data included sensitive information such as social insurance numbers, payroll reports, financial information, and home addresses and cell numbers for senior executives, all of which were published online by the hackers, the report said.
September 27, 2019
German arms and car parts maker Rheinmetall said it had been hit by a malware attack affecting production at some sites in the United States, Mexico and Brazil, sending shares down in early trade on Friday. “Normal production processes at these locations are currently experiencing significant disruption,” Rheinmetall said in a statement late on Thursday.
Rheinmetall shares, which have risen around 50% since the start of this year, were indicated to open 2.9% lower in early Frankfurt trade on Friday.
March 28, 2023
The Russian hacker group has today targeted the German weapons manufacturer Rheinmetall with a DDoS attack. Rheinmetall’s website was briefly unavailable on the morning of 28 March. Access was later restored.
Rheinmetall is expected to provide Ukraine with ammunition and weapons, such as tanks, which prompted the Russia-affiliated hackers to target the company.
March 23, 2023
Personal data of Rio Tinto Ltd’s former and current Australian employees were stolen by Cl0p. On April 6 the files were uploaded on the dark web. Ransom group Cl0p claims responsibility for the alleged data hack.
Rio Tinto confirmed that stolen employee data have been uploaded on the dark web, ABC News reported.
March 23, 2023
A ransomware gang breached the Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) data network on April 1. The ransomware gang called ‘Medusa’, first published on its blog, ‘Medusa Blog’ on March 23, privy to hacker networks, that they were in possession of several GBs of sensitive data belonging to GMDC’s office in Ahmedabad and had compromised the ‘admin’ of the network. Medusa ransomware demanded $500,000 as ransom by April 1, from GMDC to decrypt the documents.
The Medusa ransomware gang took control of administrator rights, and allegedly had access to Office365 users’ emails including the attached documents. There were lists of corporate business clients with whom GMDC is in business, maintenance contracts for a power plant, several tender documents, infrastructure evaluation report conducted by Schneider Electric for GMDC, several IP addresses of employees and their devices, employees’ personal details.
August 11, 2023
Copper mining company Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) suffered a cyber attack that hit its information technology systems and caused limited impact to its operations. Phoenix, Arizona-based FCX said “the company is assessing the impact and proactive measures are being taken to address the situation. The company is working closely with third-party experts and law enforcement.
“To date, there has been limited impact on production. Transitional solutions are being planned and implemented to secure information systems as quickly as possible.
July 16, 2023
Norwegian recycling and mining corporation Tomra suffered an “extensive cyberattack” Sunday which affected some of its data systems, company officials said.
“Tomra has been targeted by an extensive cyberattack directly affecting some of the company’s data systems,” the company said in a statement. “Relevant authorities have been informed, and all available internal and external resources have been mobilized to contain and neutralize the incident.
“The attack was discovered in the morning of July 16th (CET), and immediate actions were taken to stop it and mitigate consequences. We immediately disconnected some systems to contain the attack, and Tomra is currently assessing whether customers and employees might experience reduced stability in our services. Our primary focus now is to get all systems up and running again as fast as possible.”
February 6, 2023
Vesuvius, a UK-based molten metal flow engineering company issued an alert on February 6, 2023, which stated it was “currently managing a cyber incident, [which] has involved unauthorized access to our systems.” The London Stock Exchange-listed ceramics manufacturer disclosed in May that the perplexing cyber incident will incur a hefty cost of $4.6 million.
The exact nature of the incident remains shrouded in secrecy, as the company has refrained from providing specific details.
Notably, Vesuvius is the second British industrial ceramics manufacturer to disclose a cyber incident in 2023. In January, Morgan Advanced Materials, a company specializing in semiconductor production, also submitted a cybersecurity incident notice to the London Stock Exchange.