Due to a recent cyber attack the databases managed by Latvia’s Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB), including Electronic Data Entry Systems, and the institution’s official mobile app Ziņo KNAB have been disrupted, as confirmed by KNAB. KNAB reports that in the evening on 25 July multiple of the institution’s resources suffered a cyber attack. Public accessibility to those resources was disrupted by those cyber attacks. Read more about it: here

The ransomware group Lockbit claims to have released data allegedly stolen from LaPosteMobile. The data appears to include a database containing customer information including names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, bank details and dates of birth. It is understood that negotiations with LockBit 3.0 have not yielded any results in the past month, resulting in the release of the data.  Read more about it : here

From Russia With Love. Frwl claims a successful use of Somnia ransomware on Ukraine governmental system. No financial motivation, only destruction. If confirmed its a capability uplift they have planned for months. Read more about it : here

Spain’s National Police said Wednesday that two people have been arrested for allegedly hacking the country’s Radioactivity Alert Network (RAR) and disabling more than one-third of the sensors that are used to monitor excessive radiation levels across the country. The attack occurred between March and June of 2021, and was allegedly carried out by two individuals who were at one point involved in maintaining the system, which is run by Spain’s General Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergencies (DGPCE). The police did not disclose the names of the arrested individuals, or say what motivated the attack. “During the investigation it was determined that the two detainees had been responsible for the maintenance program of the RAR system, through a company contracted by the DGPCE, for which they had a deep knowledge of it that made it easier for them to carry out the attacks and helped them in their efforts to mask their authorship, significantly increasing the difficulty of the investigation,” the National Police said. Read more about it: here

According to the Redpacketsecurity media, the cybercriminal ransomware as a service group LockBit 3.0 has claimed responsibility for an attack on the Italian-based international group "FAAC" and published this claim on 13 August 2022.  Read more about it : here

For a time, the IT system of a Franconian grammar school was completely paralysed. The reason for this is said to have been a cyber attack. But who is behind the attack? The IT systems of the Simon-Marius-Gymnasium in Gunzenhausen were temporarily unavailable last week. The reason was a cyberattack. The district administration Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen informed about this in a press release on Tuesday (09.08.2022). Now the search for those responsible begins. According to the district office, unauthorised access to the school's network was detected last week. This caused the deletion of data on the school server. The incident was promptly detected and all necessary measures were taken. However, it is still unclear whether the perpetrators were able to steal sensitive data.  Read more about it : here

According to research by BR and WDR , the Federal Public Prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant against a Russian hacker who was said to have been involved in operations against the networks of energy suppliers. According to this, Pawel A. belongs to a hacker group known as "Berserk Bear", which is said to be behind the Russian secret service FSB. Among other things, the suspect is said to be jointly responsible for a hack on the network of the company Netcom BW in the summer of 2017, a subsidiary of the German energy supplier EnBW. Years of investigations by the State Criminal Police Office of Baden-Württemberg preceded the identification of Pawel A. In September 2021, the Attorney General in Karlsruhe then obtained an arrest warrant, which has not yet been made public. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution was also able to at least partially monitor the incoming and outgoing Internet traffic of the hacker group. One of the servers used by the group was located in Germany. Read more about it: here

Hackers attacked a company involved in remote reading of water meters. Residents fear whether their data is safe and their water consumption will be falsified.  On Thursday, notices appeared on the cage from the cooperative that there had been a cyber-attack on the company that deals with remote reading of water meters. We don't know what this entails, whether the data is secure or whether the readings will not be falsified, says Mr Janusz from Marymont. He adds: - A few years ago, the co-op urged us to get new water meters. It was a considerable expense from the renovation fund, but the radio reading was supposed to be more accurate. The idea was also to reduce fraud, because not everyone was giving the true state of the meters after all. And now something like this. Read more about it : here

The Latvian Parliament, by resolution, recognised Russia as a state sponsoring terrorism and deliberately attacking civilians in Ukraine. Riga's decision was said to have been acted upon by a pro-Russian hacking group by launching a cyber attack. The Latvian Parliament, in adopting the resolution on Thursday, indicated that Russian forces are knowingly and premeditatedly carrying out attacks against Ukrainian targets, including civilians, and that the Kremlin is financing terrorism. Read more about it : here

The company Coretrek was probably exposed to a denial of service attack on Monday, similar to what we saw against the Norwegian authorities last week. It affected several websites. A denial of service attack, also called a DDoS attack, takes place when someone uses a network of computers to send large amounts of traffic to a website. As a result, the website is unable to receive all the traffic and goes down. According to the Telegram channel of the Russian hacker network Killnet, Russian hackers are behind the attacks. This time it is the hacker group "NoName057" who will be behind it. On NoName057's Telegram channel it is claimed that they have hit Bastø Fosen and Boreal. These websites have also been down. They also have Coretrek as a supplier. Read more about it: here