{"id":462,"date":"2020-06-30T21:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/?p=462"},"modified":"2020-06-30T21:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:45:26","slug":"ransomware-attacks-june-2020-corona-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/ransomware-attacks-june-2020-corona-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Attacks: June 2020 | Corona, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In this day and age, ransomware cyberattacks<\/a> are happening every 11 seconds on various industries, making it a big business \u2013 a big business that is estimated to cause $20 billion worth of damage by 2021. Manufacturing and government are the hardest hit according to industry, the United States by country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ransomware attacks surged again in the month of June with\nCovid-19 related phishing techniques still proving popular with cybercriminals.\nNotable attacks include Honda, who had their European operations significantly\naffected, and the University of California who reportedly paid $1.14 million to\nrecover academic data related to its Covid-19 research. Here is a roundup of\nthe incidents we uncovered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We start the month in South Africa with telecoms firm Telkom\nSA SOC Ltd. We found limited coverage of the incident, but it was reported that\nthe attack led to outages across several systems with remote staff unable to\nconnect to the servers or VPN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up next is Columbia College in Chicago who were attacked\njust one week after the attack on Michigan State University. On the Netwalker\nblog the cybercriminals claimed to have exfiltrated very highly- sensitive data\nduring the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hackers continued their spree on US colleges when they hit\nthe University of California on the same day. Important Covid-19 research was\nencrypted during the attack and the school paid out $1.14 million to recover\nthe data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The City of Florence in Alabama became the next victim on\nJune 5 when an attack shut down the city\u2019s email system. The city reportedly\npaid over $250K to recover the encrypted data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next attack took place at VT San Antonio Aerospace, the\nUS subsidiary of ST Engineering Aerospace in Singapore. The ransomware attack\nresulted in the exposure of confidential data including government contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Automotive giant Honda suffered an Ekans ransomware attack\nwhich targeted its offices in the United States, Europe and Japan. The attack\nforced many offices to shut down in what was likely the most publicized\nransomware incident of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in the month Australian beverage giant Lion\ndisclosed they had been the victim of a cyberattack, they later confirmed it\nwas ransomware. The company\u2019s data was said to be available on the Dark Web but\nat the time of writing the company did not have any evidence of data being\nexfiltrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over to New Mexico next where nuclear missile contractor\nWestech International was the victim of a Maze ransomware attack. Hackers were\nable to access sensitive employee information, but it is still unconfirmed\nwhether any classified military information was accessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next up is Norwegian shipbuilder Vard, Europe\u2019s first attack\nof the month. Local reports indicate that company servers were hit with an\nencryption attack which led to downtime. The overall extent of the damage has\nnot yet been disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisher and Paykel, a whitegoods manufacturer based in New\nZealand disclosed they had been targeted by Nefilim. Although quickly\nidentified, the hackers did disclose an initial leak of the company\u2019s corporate\nfiles on the Dark Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York company Threadstone Advisors, a mergers and\nacquisitions firm whose client list includes Victoria Beckham, were hit by Maze\nransomware. The gang insists that they had exfiltrated and encrypted the\ncompany\u2019s data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An overnight attack hit the City of Knoxville in Tennessee.\nFortunately emergency services were not affected in the attack but by the time\nit was noticed by the IT department the ransomware had already encrypted\nmultiple systems. Knoxville joins a list of affected cities including Atlanta,\nBaltimore, Denver and New Orleans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to Europe now where this time it was European Energy\ngiant Enel Group. The incident was the work of the Snake ransomware group who\nwere also responsible for the attack at Honda earlier in the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rhode Island-based Care New England (CNE) was victim of a cyberattack\nthat hit its servers on June 16. The suspected ransomware attack forced the\nshutdown of its website and other internal systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up next is Florida based ConnectWise who hit the headlines\nwhen it was revealed that their partners were hit by ransomware through a\nsoftware flaw in their platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electronics giant LG is reportedly being threatened by the\nMaze ransomware gang, however at the time of writing no official statement had\nbeen issued by the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing out the month is another suspected attack on car\ngiant Mitsubishi. The Doppelpaymer gang are allegedly threatening to leak data\nfrom the organization, although at the time of writing there has been no\nofficial statement from the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read more about the ransomware attacks of 2020, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this day and age, ransomware cyberattacks are happening every 11 seconds on various industries, making it a big business \u2013 a big business that is estimated to cause $20 billion worth of damage by 2021. Manufacturing and government are the hardest hit according to industry, the United States by country. Ransomware attacks surged again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,62,12,68],"tags":[73,65,177,154,60,178,76,36,22,25,153,10,143,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urcs.net\/computer-solutions-computer-repair-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}