{"id":3177,"date":"2024-04-18T23:15:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/ics-ot-security\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline"},"modified":"2024-04-18T23:15:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T04:15:24","slug":"cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack Takes Frontier Communications Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Texas-based Frontier Communications, which provides local residential and business telecom services in 25 states, has shut down its operations in the wake of a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of personally identifiable information (PII).<\/span><\/p>\n

The breach occurred four days ago on April 14, when it detected a breach by an unauthorized third party who had gained access to “portions of its information technology environment,” according to an <\/span>incident filing with the US Securities & Exchange Commission<\/a><\/span> (SEC).<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of its containment efforts, Frontier took “certain of the company\u2019s systems [offline, which] resulted in an operational disruption that could be considered material.” It reported that while its core IT environment is up and running, normal business operations have yet to resume; and as of this writing, the telco’s website was still offline.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frontier didn’t disclose what PII the cyberattacker accessed or who’s affected, nor the suspected nature of the adversary. Telecom companies are a popular target for both financially motivated attackers as well as advanced persistent threats (APT), given the rich data repositories they hold. For instance, the <\/span>Sandman APT<\/a><\/span> was behind a prolific string of attacks last fall bent on stealing call-data records, mobile subscriber identity data, and metadata from carrier networks.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The company continues to investigate the incident, has engaged cybersecurity experts, and has notified law enforcement authorities,” according to the <\/span>SEC filing<\/a><\/span>. “The company does not believe the incident is reasonably likely to materially impact the company\u2019s financial condition or results of operations.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas-based Frontier Communications, which provides local residential and business telecom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[809],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dark-reading"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1645&ssl=1",2560,1645,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C193&ssl=1",300,193,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?fit=640%2C412&ssl=1",640,412,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?fit=640%2C411&ssl=1",640,411,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?fit=1536%2C987&ssl=1",1536,987,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?fit=2048%2C1316&ssl=1",2048,1316,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C658&ssl=1",1024,658,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?resize=825%2C575&ssl=1",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?resize=590%2C410&ssl=1",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Dark Reading","author_link":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/author\/darkreading\/"},"category_info":"Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cyberattack-takes-frontier-communications-offline-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1645&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}