With the higher online usage during the corona pandemic, attacks by hackers in the private sector, in business and in politics are also increasing.
In February, among other things, the cyber attack on the domain of the Perl programming language became public. At times the website was completely lost. A Florida waterworks was also targeted.
The domain Perl.com, the free, platform-independent programming language, was completely taken over and hijacked by unknown attackers. Since then, the domain has been pointing to an IP address associated with criminal activities. The domain was illegally offered for sale by the attackers for $ 190,000. The legitimate owners of the domain have recommended developers using Perl.com as a mirror to obtain Perl modules via CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) to change the configuration from CPAN.pm to cpan.org. You were warned against visiting the Perl.com domain.
Hackers have briefly taken control of the drinking water treatment of the waterworks in the city of Oldsmar in the US state of Florida. The settings of the groundwater treatment plant, which regulates the supply of sodium hydroxide, have been manipulated and increased 100 times. An employee observed the procedure and responded immediately. Sodium hydroxide degrades tissue in higher concentrations. This averted damage to the population.
Source: QGroup GmbH
Cyber criminals gained access to the servers of CD Projekt SA, a Polish developer and publisher of computer games, which among other things developed “Cyberpunk 2077”. The attackers captured source code from several projects of the CDPR Red development department. The games “Cyberpunk 2077”, “The Witcher 3” and the stand-alone variant of the card game “Gwent” were affected. The data that was encrypted by the ransomware attack could be restored through backups, according to CD Projekt SA. The attackers also threatened the publication of captured documents.
Unknown attackers compromised the customer and communication systems of Netcom Kassel Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation mbH. Customer data was stolen, which was then published on a separate website in order to blackmail the provider.
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