Tag: Cyberattack

June 30, 2023

In 2020, software company SolarWinds was hit with a cyberattack that compromised its Orion supply chain software. The attack impacted thousands of victims. Three years later, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing its investigation into the attack. […]

June 15, 2023

The rise of Russia-linked cyberattacks is causing concerns among US and French analysts, who have observed a shift in Moscow’s focus from Ukraine to its European allies. According to Al Jazeera, a recent report released by French defense firm Thales […]

May 26, 2023

Russia’s cyberattacks against Ukrainian civilian and critical infrastructure has shown what it looks like when cyberattacks are part of warfare. What remains to be seen is whether the world will treat them as war crimes. “For too long, the world […]

January 6, 2023

More than a dozen schools in the UK have suffered a cyberattack which has led to highly confidential documents being leaked online by cybercriminals. That’s according to a report from the BBC which claimed that children’s SEN information, child passport […]

January 4, 2023

The number of attacks targeting the government sector increased by 95% worldwide in the second half of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, according to a new report by AI-based cybersecurity company CloudSek. The increase in attacks can […]

September 7, 2022

Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled the country’s embassy staff over a major cyberattack nearly two months ago that was allegedly carried out by Tehran on Albanian government websites, the prime minister said Wednesday. The move by Albania, […]

August 18, 2022

Russian-linked threat actors harnessed a commercial security tool to launch cyberattacks on Ukrainian government organizations and a series of phishing attacks designed to infiltrate key systems amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to new research published today by Trustwave. The […]

January 14, 2022

A massive cyber attack warning Ukrainians to “be afraid and expect the worst” hit government websites on Thursday night, leaving some websites inaccessible on Friday morning and prompting Kyiv to open an investigation. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman told Reuters it […]

October 26, 2021

A cyberattack crippled gas stations across Iran on Tuesday, leaving angry motorists stranded in long lines. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which rendered useless the government-issued electronic cards that many Iranians use to buy subsidized fuel at […]

March 8, 2021

Global aviation industry IT supplier SITA has confirmed it has fallen victim to a cyberattack, with hackers gaining access to personal information of airline passengers. The information technology and communications company, which claims to serve around 90% of the world’s […]

October 20, 2020

The Russian intel officers are believed to be apart of the Russian’s secretive Sandworm hacking group. Some of the attacks allegedly perpetrated by this group include the cyberattack on the Ukrainian power grid in December 2015 and the NotPetya ransomware […]

September 27, 2019

The ransomware epidemic isn’t going anywhere, and state, county and local governments are all in the crosshairs. There have been roughly 100 reported ransomware attacks against public sector institutions in the U.S. since the beginning of the year. Some pay […]

June 30, 2017

There are few high-tech scenarios more nightmarish than attacks on connected medical devices. Imagine a pacemaker held for ransom by a foreign hacker or a medical center spoofed into giving patients toxic doses of drugs. But the proliferation of connected […]

July 5, 2016

The European Union is stumping up €450 million ($500 million) to fund research into cybersecurity — and wants industry to contribute three times that. The EU’s executive body, the European Commission, is concerned about the vulnerability of the EU economy […]

April 20, 2016

A defense bill moving through the House of Representatives would give the Department of Defense more authority to recover from a cyberattack, replace clearance systems run out of the Office of Personnel Management and restrict funding for the Pentagon’s Silicon […]

August 4, 2015

Threats to IT security are proliferating faster than administrators can respond. Here’s a look at some security startups offering technology you can use to defend your business and your customers. Read More

May 21, 2015

A large U.S. health insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, has disclosed it fell victim to a cyberattack that affected about 1.1 million people. The attack, which occurred in June last year, targeted a single database that contained information about CareFirst members […]

April 28, 2015

SendGrid is resetting the passwords for all of its customers after an investigation showed a cyberattack it sustained earlier this month was more extensive than first realized. The company, which provides a service for companies to mass email their customers […]

March 18, 2015

(Reuters) – Health insurer Premera Blue Cross said on Tuesday it was a victim of a cyberattack that may have exposed medical data and financial information of 11 million customers, in the latest serious breach disclosed by a healthcare company. […]