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The United States has managed to recover most of the ransom paid by the Colonial Pipeline Company. In May 2021, the eastern USA was left with fuel shortages as a major pipeline was knocked offline by a ransomware attack. The pipeline’s owner, The Colonial Pipeline Company, decided to pay the ransom in order to minimise service disruption. However, US security forces made a major breakthrough with the Colonial Pipeline ransom and managed to recover almost all of the fee, worth around $4.4 million at the time of payment.  Ransomware victims usually receive instruction to pay using cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, which are extremely difficult to trace or recover.

The Irish healthcare system was left relying on paper records in late May after a successful ransomware attack on their IT systems. Around 2,000 systems and 4,500 servers were disrupted, which left hospitals across the country with delays, missed appointments and some services unavailable. The Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) described the attack as “heinous” and is another world leader to identify modern cyber attacks as a major threat. Paul Reid, chief executive of the Health Service Executive, said that the attack caused 7,000 appointments per day to be cancelled, and that he expects the cost of returning to normal to be up to €100 million.

The world’s largest meat processor suffered a ransomware attack in early June. JBS, a Brazilian-based company which provides nearly 20% of all beef in the USA, shut down most of its operations after the attack was discovered. Against FBI advice, JBS paid a ransom of almost $11 million. As is usual, JBS paid the ransom using Bitcoin. According to The Guardian, the ransom was paid in an attempt to minimise the disruption to supplies, as seen with the Colonial Pipeline attack. Operations were offline for one day before the ransom was paid, and the fee demonstrates the potential rewards for criminal gangs in targeting large companies.

A single customer managed to bring down some of the world’s most visited websites on June 8th. Services such as Amazon, Reddit, Gov.uk and Twitch were knocked offline for just under one hour, according to Data Center Dynamics. Although a cyber attack was discussed online during the outage, it quickly became known that the fault lied with Fastly, a major content delivery network. After all services were resumed, Fastly announced that a previously unknown software bug had caused the outage, and that the bug was triggered by a single customer making a very specific account configuration change which caused errors in throughout the Fastly network.

New MyCena extension allows automatic filling of credentials

We are very excited to introduce the new auto-fill feature for MyCena Desk Center (MDC) application.

No need to copy and paste the login or password from your application to a http or https webpage anymore. Follow those steps and your login information will be automatically filled in.

How to use the auto-fill feature?

1- Download ( first time only) the MyCena Desk Center extension on your browser.

      • Firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/mycena-desk-center-extension

     • Chrome : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mycena-desk-center-extens/ihmaefbmifmbbcobcnfbgofllgbjbfpn

      • Safari : Safari (coming soo)

2- Click on the extension icon then enter your e-mail address or your username in the field.

3a- Go to the menu of your MDC application, click on Connect Extension.

3b (optional) - If you received a code in the app, click on the MDC extension icon and enter the code in the window.

4- Once your application and extension are connected, all you have to do is go to one of your credentials on the MDC application and click on the 'go to' icon. If the address is a web login page, the fields will be automatically filled in.

NOTE: If 'see password' and 'copy password' are disabled in your MDC application, you can't know your own passwords. The only way for you to login is open your MDC application and click the 'go to' button. Because you don't know your own passwords, you are safe from phishing attacks.

A major U.S. oil pipeline was knocked offline earlier this month by a cyber attack originating in Eastern Europe. The Colonial Pipeline, which supplies around half of the East Coast’s fuel, announced it was the victim of an attack on May 7th. The attackers used ransomware which forced The Colonial Pipeline Company to take their systems offline and halt the delivery of fuel, causing President Biden to announce a regional state of emergency in the days following. Reports vary on exactly how the company dealt with the ransomware, however, CEO Joseph Blount confirmed that a Bitcoin payment worth around $4.4 million was made.