Compromised data included information belonging to employees such as name, personal and company email address, home address, driver’s license number, passport information, data of birth, etc. According to media reports and the dates of breach reported by the company it seems the attackers maintained access to company systems for roughly six months, between June and December. Dassault Falcon Jet Corp, the US subsidiary of Dassault Aviation, suffered a ransomware attack at the hands of the Ragnar Locker gang.The incident resulted in a drop in the share price.
In a statement to the Stock Market in Oslo the company disclosed that they were working with the relevant Norwegian authorities to limit damage and get a full assessment of the situation. Norway based AKVA Group, a global supplier of technology to the aquaculture industry revealed that they had been hit by a ransomware attack and that hackers were demanding a ransom.The leak suggests that Broe Group, who is headquartered at the same location refused to pay the ransom. The Conti gang were behind the attack which posted exfiltrated data on its leak site.
The Northern Territory Government in Australia was next to reveal an attack that forced its systems offline for 3 weeks.The data appears to contain a significant amount of personally identifiable information. The attack drew immediate speculation from experts that ransomware was involved, however, this wasn’t confirmed until January when the PYSA ransomware gang leaked council data online in a double extortion style attack. In October 2020 Hackney Council in London reported that they had been the victim of a very sophisticated cyberattack.Documents including correspondence with government departments was posted online in late December. The company was targeted by the Mount Locker ransomware gang in mid-December. Next up is UK-based infrastructure support service provider Amey.A notice posted on Dec 31st revealed that they were the victim of a cyberattack and that certain systems in its environment were encrypted and inaccessible. The company were forced to disclose the attack which happened earlier in 2020 after data stolen during the attack showed up online. We start the month with an attack on new York based Apex Laboratory.Let’s begin with January and look at the 19 attacks we uncovered during the month.