Bleeping Computer is reporting that Canada’s House of Commons is investigating an employee data breach after a cyberattack
While the lower house of the Parliament of Canada has yet to issue a public statement regarding this incident, CBC News reports that House of Commons staff were notified of a breach on Monday via email.
The alert states that the attacker exploited a recent Microsoft vulnerability to gain access to a database containing sensitive information used to manage House of Commons computers and mobile devices. During the breach, the threat actor also stole some employee data that isn’t publicly available, including their names, job titles, office locations, and email addresses.
Employees and House of Commons members were also urged to be aware of potential fraudulent attempts to use the information stolen during the attack, which could be used to target and impersonate parliamentarians or exploited in scams.
The House of Commons is now collaborating with the country’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE), the national security agency, to investigate the impact of the attack
Javvad Malik, Lead Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4 had this comment:
“While details of how the breach occurred and who was behind it is limited for now. The stolen data can be weaponized for tailored phishing and impersonation against officials. Staff will likely receive convincing emails, texts, and calls leveraging the job and device details that have been stolen. Priority should be given to provide clear guidance and strict verification for requests along with a strong reporting culture so that people can work together to help secure the organization.”
Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Champion at Pixel Privacy adds this comment:
“There has been a big increase in the number of cyber incidents over the last few years, and targets like the House of Commons have proven to be attractive, data rich targets for both criminal and state-sponsored hackers. Employees and members of the House of Commons need to be on alert for phishing schemes that use the data gleaned from this hack to gain access to additional personal and financial information from those affected by the leak.”
We’ll eventually find out what happened here. But it shows how important that applying patches is seeing as a Microsoft vulnerability was apparently responsible for the threat actors being able to get in. Thus now might be a very good time for you to patch all the things.
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Canada’s House Of Commons Has Apparently Been Pwned
Bleeping Computer is reporting that Canada’s House of Commons is investigating an employee data breach after a cyberattack
While the lower house of the Parliament of Canada has yet to issue a public statement regarding this incident, CBC News reports that House of Commons staff were notified of a breach on Monday via email.
The alert states that the attacker exploited a recent Microsoft vulnerability to gain access to a database containing sensitive information used to manage House of Commons computers and mobile devices. During the breach, the threat actor also stole some employee data that isn’t publicly available, including their names, job titles, office locations, and email addresses.
Employees and House of Commons members were also urged to be aware of potential fraudulent attempts to use the information stolen during the attack, which could be used to target and impersonate parliamentarians or exploited in scams.
The House of Commons is now collaborating with the country’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE), the national security agency, to investigate the impact of the attack
Javvad Malik, Lead Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4 had this comment:
“While details of how the breach occurred and who was behind it is limited for now. The stolen data can be weaponized for tailored phishing and impersonation against officials. Staff will likely receive convincing emails, texts, and calls leveraging the job and device details that have been stolen. Priority should be given to provide clear guidance and strict verification for requests along with a strong reporting culture so that people can work together to help secure the organization.”
Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Champion at Pixel Privacy adds this comment:
“There has been a big increase in the number of cyber incidents over the last few years, and targets like the House of Commons have proven to be attractive, data rich targets for both criminal and state-sponsored hackers. Employees and members of the House of Commons need to be on alert for phishing schemes that use the data gleaned from this hack to gain access to additional personal and financial information from those affected by the leak.”
We’ll eventually find out what happened here. But it shows how important that applying patches is seeing as a Microsoft vulnerability was apparently responsible for the threat actors being able to get in. Thus now might be a very good time for you to patch all the things.
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