The Hacker News

MARCH 28, 2024

The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country's Parliament in 2020. The intrusion, per the authorities, is said to have occurred between fall 2020 and early 2021.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Hackers are always interested in events that grab the attention of the entire globe and one such sporting event was the Tokyo Olympics 2020 that was postponed by the organizers because of COVID-19 Pandemic and rescheduled and held between July–August 2021 i.e. in this year. times the amount observed during the 2012 London Olympics.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 2, 2021

“One of the main cyber-risks is to think they don’t exist. The post Tactical Approach to Combat Cyber Attacks in 2021 appeared first on Kratikal Blog. The post Tactical Approach to Combat Cyber Attacks in 2021 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 20, 2021

The post Cyber Attack Simulation: Upgrade Your Training Tactic in 2021! The post Cyber Attack Simulation: Upgrade Your Training Tactic in 2021! These are not the only two instances of human error resulting in disastrous security incidents. Employees can prove to be […]. appeared first on Kratikal Blogs.

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Quick Heal Antivirus

JUNE 17, 2021

The post Breaches and Incidents: Top 5 Cyber-attacks in Quarter 1 – 2021 appeared first on Quick Heal Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice. The second wave of the pandemic has hit India hard from a cybersecurity perspective. There has been a.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Facebook (FB) issued a press update on Monday October 4th, 2021, stating that all its online services across the world were down because of a configuration error that couldn’t be fixed on time as most of its staff were working from home.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

According to a research carried out by Check Point Research, a 50% rise in cyber attacks is being witnessed year on year and the target points were mostly touted to be the organizations operating in education/research and military or government sectors.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident. Nissan already notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 26, 2022

According to the email sent to its customers on June 2nd of this year, the bank’s management detected unauthorized access to the company’s IT network between December 3rd, 2021 and December 4th, 2021. There is no information on why the bank took almost 5-6 months to inform the details of the cyber attack on its valuable customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 3, 2023

A cyber attack launched and identified on March 26th of this year has triggered the incident response teams of Western Digital (WD) to take appropriate steps to mitigate the cyber risks of the incident. However, it assured to the media that it will reveal more of the cyber incident details after the probe gets done.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The company did not disclose details of the attack, however the decision to shut down the IT systems suggests it was the victim of a ransomware attack. This isn’t the first time that the company was the victim of a cyber attack. In 2016, alleged Asian threat actors targeted ThyssenKrupp to steal company secrets.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2022

A Cyber Attack that took place on UK’s Defence Academy early last year was brought to light by Air Marshall Edward Stringer through an interview given to Sky News. The Former Director of the academy stated that the attack went unnoticed by the media as it was not given priority as its consequences were not severe.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

New York Metropolitan Transport Authority, well known shortly as MTA was reportedly hit by a cyber attack in April this year and sources report that the incident was limited only to some systems and no employee or customer info was compromised. .

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 31, 2021

However, this blog’s point is that these forms of cyber attacks will continue and could likely accelerate. The post Best of 2021 – What We Can Learn From the 2021 Microsoft Data Breach appeared first on Security Boulevard. Trying to react after the fact is not the way to do business.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 13, 2022

A study published by NCC Group shows what businesses need to be aware of when attempting to prevent cyber attacks. The post Supply chain cyberattacks jumped 51% in 2021 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

From the past few months, the fear of being cyber attacked seems to have gripped most of the technologists so much that every small outage is being considered because of cyber attack. While the American tech giant has stated that most of the services were restored by 4Pm on February 3rd,2021.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2023

According to experts from Digital Watchdog RDI, solar panels are now vulnerable to cyber attacks, with hackers targeting the vulnerabilities in the inverters that store energy for powering smartphones, laptops, and small electrical gadgets. Between 2015 and 2021, approximately 16.3

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Just within 3 weeks of confirmation, Singapore Telecommunication LTD aka SingTel has confirmed another data breach after Optus Cyber Attack. It has issued a press update saying its Australian company Dialog Pty faced a digital attack last week leaking details of only 20 clients.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2023

In a statement issued by the delivery giant yesterday, the 5 centuries old non-profit government organization is busy investigating a cyber incident that brought its operations to knees from early this month. Russia linked hackers group dubbed LockBit Ransomware is suspected to be behind the cyber attack and a probe is still on.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

Amedia, the Norway’s second largest media company, has issued a public statement that it was hit by a cyber attack that crippled its printing infrastructure affecting its newspaper editions on temporary basis. The post Cyber Attack on Norway Amedia appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Tata Power on Friday announced that was hit by a cyber attack. ” “The Tata Power Company Limited had a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure impacting some of its IT systems. The companies are conducting an assessment of their IT infrastructure to percent intrusions and mitigate the risks of cyber attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 28, 2021

Cancer treatment services across the United States have taken a big hit as a cyber attack is said to have disrupted the software services operating in the High-tech radiation machines used to treat the malign disease. The post Cancer Treatment across United States halted by Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The chief executive of insurance giant Zurich warns that cyber attacks, rather than natural catastrophes, will become uninsurable. Mario Greco, chief executive of insurer giant Zurich, has warned that cyber attacks will become soon “uninsurable.”. These people can severely disrupt our lives.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 26, 2021

Adding to this torment is a report released by Eurocontrol that says that most of the airliners are facing the constant threat of being hit by a sophisticated cyber attack. According to the report, a total of 775 cyber attacks were launched on airlines over the course of 2020.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 22, 2021

The US Department of Defense Cyber Command has disclosed in a tweet that the US State Department was hit by a cyber attack, just a couple of weeks ago, hinting at a serious data breach. The post Details of US State Department Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Hacker News

MAY 23, 2023

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of cyber attacks targeting state bodies in the country as part of an espionage campaign. The origins of the hacking crew are presently unknown.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 24, 2024

Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday sanctioned two firms and four individuals for their involvement in malicious cyber activities on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC) from at least 2016 to April 2021.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 4, 2021

Just when the media has speculated a possible Chinese cyber attack on the power grids operating in South India, an NGO foundation has alleged that the National Stock Exchange(NSE) of India was hit by a cyber attack on February 24th,2021 disrupting most of the operations for the whole day.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Atlassian issued an update that the software vulnerability was identified by its security engineers on August 2021 and a fix was issued in the same month. However, there is no evidence that the information reached the hands of hackers as no threat group yet has come forward to take a claim of a cyber attack or the data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 11, 2021

The Redwood-based company that stands as the second-largest gaming company in America after Ubisoft stated that it is taking the help of security experts to investigate the incident to the core and assured that it will share all the information related to the cyber attack with other companies and the government.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

London based Giant Group has confirmed that its IT infrastructure was suffering repercussions gained through a cyber attack on September 24th,2021 and all its phone, email and other payroll related servers were facing digital disruption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Currently, information published by Global Times suggests that the intelligence gathering campaign is taking place since 2021 and will intensify into a large-scale network scan detection and supply chain attacks on Chinese networks in the coming days.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It should come as no surprise that 2021 will be recalled as one of the most disrupting years in the history of cyber-attacks, with ransomware causing mayhem on companies and governments, as well as essential infrastructure, on a scale never previously seen.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 7, 2021

What’s interesting about this cyber attack is that the company that offers Enterprise Resource Planning Software(ERP) has itself stated that it has detected over 300 attempts to infiltrate its applications out of 1,500 attempts to exploit previously known vulnerabilities and configuration errors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2021

To all those who are concerned about the increase in cyber attacks on Maritime Industry, here’s an interesting finding to analyze. During a webinar conducted by Riviera, they revealed that the Human errors are causing an increase in cyber attacks on Maritime Industry.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The post Gloucester City Council hit by a possible Ransomware Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. But now they are involved in double extortion tactics where they sell the data if the victim fails to pay the demanded ransom for any reason.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 2, 2022

Microsoft’s Digital Security Unit has confirmed that Russian cyber attacks on Ukraine were timed in such a way that they coincided with the timing of military strikes. After the war started on February 24th, 2022, Kremlin involved two other groups in cyber attack campaigns.

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