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FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting the food and agriculture sector

Security Affairs

FBI warns ransomware gangs are actively targeting organizations in the food and agriculture sector. Food and agriculture businesses victimized by ransomware suffer significant financial loss resulting from ransom payments, loss of productivity, and remediation costs.” ransomware and phishing scams). Pierluigi Paganini.

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CISA, FBI, NSA warn of the increased globalized threat of ransomware

Security Affairs

and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. Almost any sector was hit by sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks, including the Defense Industrial Base, Emergency Services, Food and Agriculture, Government Facilities, and Information Technology Sectors.

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Watch out, ransomware attack risk increases on holidays and weekends, FBI and CISA

Security Affairs

. “Although FBI and CISA do not currently have any specific threat reporting indicating a cyberattack will occur over the upcoming Labor Day holiday, malicious cyber actors have launched serious ransomware attacks during other holidays and weekends in 2021.”

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Microsoft warns of a large-scale BEC campaign to make gift card scam

Security Affairs

The attackers targeted organizations in multiple industries, including the consumer goods, process manufacturing and agriculture, real estate, discrete manufacturing, and professional services sectors. link] pic.twitter.com/HTqYsUlCSn — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 7, 2021.

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White House to Corporate America: Take Ransomware Threat Seriously

eSecurity Planet

REvil hasn’t taken credit for the JBS attack, but according to an NPR report , a representative of the group said in an interview in October 2020 that it was turning its attention to the agricultural sector. The difference in 2021 is the more ambitious choice of targets: critical food and fuel supply lines and transport systems,” Sheth said.