Vodafone Portugal suffered a cyberattack causing country-wide service outages, including disruption of 4G/5G data networks, SMS texts, and television services. The attack mostly affects the provisioning of services on the data network, including fixed voice, television, SMS, and voice/digital answering services. Researchers in the threat intelligence community have told BleepingComputer that they believe it was a ransomware attack. The Cofina group, the owner of multiple media outlets in Portugal, suffered a catastrophic ransomware attack from a relatively new cybercrime gang named Lapsus$ group.”]

