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West Pharmaceutical Services is working to restore global operations after shutting down tech systems when a May 4 cyberattack encrypted some systems. The intruders also stole data, the company said in a notice to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Palo Alto Networks is helping investigate and recover from the incident, West said Wednesday.
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West, which makes plungers, stoppers and other components for injectable medicine, said shipping, receiving and manufacturing have restarted at some sites but didn't say which ones. The company runs 50 sites and 25 manufacturing facilities worldwide.
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Spy catcher: Craig Missakian, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, said a top priority is prosecuting cases of corporate espionage linked to China, Iran and other adversaries. President Trump appointed Missakian to the post about a year ago. (Bloomberg)
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Pro-Iran hackers infiltrated a major South Korean electronics maker for a week in February, according to cyber company Symantec, which said the attackers appeared to be after corporate intelligence. (Bleeping Computer)
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PHOTO: ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGES
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Quotable: "The scale and timing of the Instructure breach, and the demonstrated inability of a major educational technology vendor to contain a threat actor following an initial intrusion, are precisely the kind of systemic vulnerabilities this Committee has a responsibility to examine." — Andrew Garbarino (R., N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, referring to two hacks of the widely used Canvas system.
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Garbarino called on Instructure CEO Steve Daly to brief the committee on the incidents by May 21.
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