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Accellion Data Breach Resulted in Extortion Attempts Against Multiple Victims

Kroger Co. became the latest victim of Accellion breach. Kroger, Jones Day, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) are the latest victims. Attackers exploited zero-day vulnerability in File Transfer Appliance (FTA), a near-obsolete 20-year-old technology used for years to transfer large files. Mandiant found data belonging to multiple companies in the United States, Canada, the Netherlands and Singapore has been released via a Dark Web site associated with a known Russia-based threat actor.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/accellion-data-breach-resulted-in-extortion-attempts-against-multiple-victims

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