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Hackers Behind Oakland Ransomware Attack Dump Data On City Employees

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The ransomware attack on the city of Oakland has gone from bad to worse: The hackers behind the assault also stole files from the city, and have begun leaking them online. 

This past weekend, the Play ransomware gang began dumping the stolen files —which span over 10GB of data— over the group’s site on the Dark Web. Play says the file dump includes “private and personal confidential data, financial information. IDs, passports, employee full info, human rights violation information.”

The gang is also warning it has more stolen data to dump, likely in an attempt to pressure the city to pay up to prevent more confidential information from leaking. “For now partially published compressed 10gb. If there no reaction full dump will be uploaded,” the Play gang wrote in their posting. 

The posting from the ransomware gang.

The posting from the ransomware gang.

The San Francisco Chronicle downloaded the data, and confirmed it contains the social security numbers, drivers’ license numbers, birth dates and home addresses of city employees —information that other cybercriminals could abuse to conduct identity theft schemes. In addition, the data dump contains records covering police misconduct allegations, scanned bank statements from the city’s accounts, and private information on the current and past city mayors. (Oakland employs about 5,000 people.) 

The city of Oakland didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. But on Friday, the city said it was “aware” the hackers planned on dumping data allegedly stolen during the attack. 

“We are working with third-party specialists and law enforcement on this issue and are actively monitoring the unauthorized third party’s claims to investigate their validity. If we determine that any individual’s personal information is involved, we will notify those individuals in accordance with applicable law,” the city said in a statement posted over its website. 

The ransomware attack initially caused an outage last month across the city’s IT systems, including online services. According to the city’s website, Oakland is still working to restore its remaining systems. 

As for the Play ransomware gang, the group is relatively new, emerging on the…

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Ransomware attack on Airasia, personal data of passengers and employees affected – WION

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Ransomware attack on Airasia, personal data of passengers and employees affected  WION

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Most employees fear robot hacking, but believe they should be used more in production

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A recent Kaspersky study on the consequences of automation and increased use of robots showed the growing level of robotization in companies but highlighted the increased number of cybersecurity risks this causes.

Today, 79% of employees believe that robots should be more widely used across different industries, however, 85% of them fear robot hacking.

Nowadays, robotics is being used to command industrial control systems, production processes and other information technology. It replaces manual labor, improving efficiency, speed, quality and performance. With this in mind, Kaspersky conducted a study to learn the opinion of employees of manufacturing companies and other large organizations around the world about the consequences of automation and increased use of robots. The goal was to gather employees’ thoughts about the security of robots and automated systems in their companies. The survey was conducted across 15 countries: USA, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Turkey.

Employees reported an increase in robotization levels in their companies over the last 2 years. Forty-one percent of employees said their organizations already use robots, and 29% of organizations plan to use them in the near future.
One of the findings in the research was that respondents believe robots can help industries increase economic benefits as well as saving people from dangerous duties.

This point of view is shared by more than half of the surveyed employees, as 52% think use of robots can accelerate and increase the efficiency of production processes and cut down costs, and 60% believe robotization can free people from hard or dangerous duties, reducing risks to life and health in the future. This, in turn, will help employees avoid routine and boring duties and retain more interesting and highly paid positions (36%).

More than one third of respondents consider that one of the key tasks that robots can successfully perform is to build a safe environment and reduce the likelihood of accidents due to human error. This point of view was shared by 36% of employees.

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74% of employees in South Africa say that robots should be more widely used in production, but fear robot hacking

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According to Kaspersky (www.Kaspersky.co.za) research, employees in South Africa believe that the better robots become at different tasks, the fewer jobs will remain for humans. The majority of local employees surveyed (74%) believe that robots should be more widely used across different industries, however, many fear robot hacking.

Today robotics are used together with industrial control systems and other information technology to handle production processes, replacing manual labour and improving efficiency, speed, quality and performance. Kaspersky conducted a study to learn the opinion of employees of manufacturing companies and other large organisations around the world about the consequences of automation and increased use of robots. The goal was to see what employees think about the security of robots and automated systems in their companies. The survey included respondents from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, Egypt, and South Africa.

Employees reported an increase in robotisation level in their companies over the last 2 years. 33% of employees from South Africa said their organisations already use robots, 39% of local organisations plan to use them in the near future.

Research showed that people expect job loss because of robotisation. The better robots become at different tasks, the fewer jobs will remain for humans. The majority of employees surveyed in South Africa (92%) believe robots will eventually replace humans in their industry. As robots are advancing in all market sectors, humans need to receive new knowledge and skills not to lose their job to robots. And they are ready to do so: among those who think that their jobs could be replaced by robots, the majority (75%) are willing to learn new skills or improve their existing skills and expertise. 

At the same time, many employees remain optimistic in view of robots taking away jobs. They think robot adoption will make humans’ roles safer and intellect-demanding, along with increasing the efficiency of production. 48% believe that enough new jobs will be created to counter the loss of jobs to robots. More jobs will emerge for programmers, data scientists, and engineers – these people will drive robot adoption in the…

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