"Our investigation revealed that the new ransomware in question targeted enterprises in Asia and Africa. In a blog post about the malware on 25 August, researchers Mohamed Fahmy, Nathaniel Gregory Ragasa, Earle Maui Earnshaw, Bahaa Yamany, Jeffrey Francis Bonaobra and Jay Yaneza wrote: Agenda is relatively new and was discovered by Japanese security firm Trend Micro. The group behind the attack announced it on the dark web on 19 September. Dialog has no media contact addresses on its site, only a sales email address and a Web form for making contact. The announcement on the dark web about the Dialog breach. iTWire had inquired twice from Dialog - once last week and again on Monday morning - about a possible breach, but did not receive a reply. News of the Dialog breach surfaced in a story from British news agency Reuters on Monday. The company was bought by Singtel in April for $325 million and employs more than a thousand IT specialists. Among Dialog's customers in Australia are the NSW Electoral Commission, the Department of Human Services, Queensland Health, Virgin Australia, NAB, Suncorp, Alfred Health, University of Tasmania, and Rio Tinto.
On Monday morning, data stolen from Singtel on 20 January last year, during an attack through a file-sharing system from Accellion that was close to end-of-life at the time, surfaced on a forum on the clear Web. On 22 September, Optus, Australia's second biggest telco which is also owned by the Singapore firm, announced a massive breach that was initially said to affect nearly 10 million customers.
This is the second breach in recent days to affect Singtel's properties.
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Security sources have told iTWire that the attack on Dialog was carried out using the Agenda ransomware that runs only on Windows systems. It appears to be raining data breaches at properties belonging to Singapore's multinational telecommunications conglomerate Singtel, with the telco announcing on Monday that there had been an intrusion into its Australia-based IT services provider Dialog. Singtel-owned IT services provider Dialog hit by Windows ransomware
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