incident-response

NEW Cooperative, an Iowa-based farm cooperative was recently hit by a ransomware attack that forced it to take its systems offline. NEW Cooperative has operations in over 50 locations and provides a variety of digital and software services to its network of farmers. The ransomware group BlackMatter is reportedly behind the attack. Security experts believe that BlackMatter is either being run by…

SITA Passenger Service System (SITA PSS), a communications and IT service provider for 90 percent of the world’s airline companies, suffered a massive data breach. The company calls the attack that targeted its U.S servers in Atlanta a “highly sophisticated attack.” Singapore Airlines, a company that uses SITA’s services, reported that over 580,000 customers were affected. The total…

CISA and CrowdStrike Tools Make Detecting Compromised Microsoft 365 Accounts Easier The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released a PowerShell-based tool to help organizations detect compromised accounts and applications in Microsoft Azure and 365. Following the SolarWinds attack in late 2020, which used malicious SolarWinds files that could have given…