Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) issued a warning of temporary suspension of its email systems, likely caused by a cyber attack. The Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) temporarily suspended its email systems, the interruption is likely caused by a cyber attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Company client delivery services were not impacted by the attack. “Pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, this is to inform you that the Company has become aware of a ransomware incident that has affected a few of our IT assets.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The Czech Intelligence agency blames China for a major cyber attack that hit a key government institution in the Czech Republic in 2018. According to a report published by the NUKIB Czech Intelligence agency, China carried out a major cyber attack on a key government institution in the Czech Republic last year.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

The Australian brewery and dairy conglomerate Lion was hit for the second time by a cyber attack, media reported. This is the second cyber attack is a few days, last week the systems at Lion were infected with the REvil ransomware and attackers demanded a ransom of reportedly $1 million last week.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post UK Fintech company Finastra hit by a cyber attack appeared first on Security Affairs. Bad Packets revealed that at least until January 11, 2020, four Citrix vulnerable servers were exposed online. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The COVID-19 phenomenon is scaring entire populations all around the world, many times raising panic and irrational or dangerous individual behaviors of a lot of people often pushed by some kind mass media narratives designed to leverage their uncertainty and emotional reactions, rather than inform them. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

A new wave of cyber attacks carried out by a China-linked APT group hit German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel and others. On Wednesday, German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel along with a host of others confirmed they had been targeted by a wave of cyber attacks. ” reported the Reuters agency.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

In the last hours, some western media reported destructive cyber attacks against infrastructures in the Iranian oil sector, but Iran denied it. Last week drone attacks have hit two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, one of them is the Abqaiq site. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

The Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), German, announced today that it was forced to shut down parts of its central IT infrastructure due to a cyber attack that took place overnight, between May 6 and May 7. Please vote Security Affairs for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

A wave of cyber attacks hit schools of Louisiana ahead of year’s beginning that is planned for the next week. Phone lines and email systems at Tangipahoa schools shut down, along with some offices, were shut down by cyber attacks on Monday. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2025

“Pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, this is to inform you that the Company has become aware of a ransomware incident that has affected a few of our IT assets.” Threat actors hit the companys information technology (IT) infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post FBI is warning of cyber attacks against Windows 7 systems that reached end-of-life appeared first on Security Affairs. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

Elexon, a middleman in the UK power grid network, recently reported it was hit by a cyber attack. Elexon , a middleman in the UK power grid network, was the victim of a cyber attack, the incident impacted only affected the internal IT network, including the company’s email server, and employee laptops.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Ohio detected and neutralized a cyber attack against its election systems earlier this month, it was traced to a Russian-owned company. Ohio officials thwarted a cyber attack against its election infrastructure earlier this month, the state’s elections chief announced. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

A few hours ago, I have written about an interesting analysis of the possible hack of avionics systems, not DHS warns of cyber attacks against small airplanes. “ The DHS confirms that it issued the alert because CISA is aware of a public report of cyber attacks against avionics systems in small airplanes through CAN bus.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2020

The city of Las Vegas announced it has suffered a cyber attack that breached its computer systems, it is unclear whether any sensitive data was exposed. City spokesman David Riggleman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that City officials were informed of the breach around 4:30 a.m. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

RavnAir airline was forced to cancel at least a half-dozen flights in Alaska on Saturday following a “malicious cyber attack”. The RavnAir airline was forced to cancel at least a half-dozen flights in Alaska on Saturday following a cyber attack, around 260 passengers were not able to fly. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2019

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post Millions of Exim mail servers vulnerable to cyber attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. Searching for patched Exim installs running the 4.92 release we can find 1,071,818 systems. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2020

US Government fears a new wave of cyber attacks from Iran as retaliation for the airstrike that killed Maj. Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of a potential new wave of cyber attacks carried out by Iran-linked hacker groups targeting U.S. Christopher C. The post U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post Bugs in Avast AntiTrack expose users to cyber attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. The issues were disclosed to Avast on August 7, 2019, AVG Antitrack 2.0.0.178 released on 9 March 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Demant, a leading international hearing health care company, expects to incur losses of up to $95 million following a ransomware attack. Last month, Demant suffered a cyber attack that caused important problems to its operations, the company has yet to recover after the attack, a circumstance that suggests it was hit by a ransomware attack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

” Cyber attacks against critical infrastructure, such as power grids , are very dangerous. Some of the most clamorous attacks clamorous attacks observed in the past hit Ukraine in 2015 and 2016. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

UK telecommunications company TalkTalk confirmed a data breach after a threat actor claimed responsibility for the cyber attack on a cybercrime forum and offered for sale alleged customer data. UK telecommunications firm TalkTalk disclosed a data breach after a threat actor announced the hack on a cybercrime forum.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2020

A cyber attack hit one of the major COVID-19 testing laboratories in Czech, the Brno University Hospital in the city of Brno. While the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is spreading on a global scale, crooks and nation-state actors are launching Coronavirus-themed attacks against targets worldwide. and Information Security.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2019

A new cyber attack hit the radio network Entercom, this is the second time the company has suffered a similar security incident in a few months. A cyber attack hit the radio network Entercom, the incident has impacted the back-office functions and in some cases, the stations were apparently forced to run recorded programs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Currently there is no news about the extent of this attack, it’s unclear how many Windows systems have been compromised with the Monero miner. “Although this alleged activity is concerning , the information security community (correctly) predicted much worse potential scenarios. ” concludes the expert.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Iran telecommunications minister announced that the Islamic republic had recently thwarted a “highly organized cyber attack” targeting government infrastructure. “I cannot say for now which country has conducted the attack.” “I cannot say for now which country has conducted the attack.”

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

A wave of cyber attacks hit 2,000 websites in Georgia, including the sites of the president, courts, and local media. A mysterious wave of cyber attacks hit some 2,000 websites in Georgia, including the websites of the president, courts, and media. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MARCH 16, 2020

People cited by Bloomberg confirmed that the cyber attack aimed at slowing the agency’s systems down. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.”

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

sPower , a US-based renewable energy provider, was the victim of a cyber attack that disconnected the US power grid operator from its power generation station. sPower , a Utah-based renewable energy provider was hit by a cyber attack, the incident took place in March. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

File encryption 2013 – 2015. The newsmaking emergence of CTB-Locker in 2014 and the CryptoWall ransomware in 2015 fully demonstrated this multi-pronged shift. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. Another fundamental tweak was the onset of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) in May 2015.

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APRIL 11, 2020

Monte dei Paschi, one of the biggest Italian banks, suffered a cyber attack, hackers accessed the mailboxes of some employees and sent emails to clients. Italian state-owned bank Monte dei Paschi discloses a security breach, hackers have accessed the mailboxes of some employees and sent emails to clients. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

has neutralized more than 600 cyber attacks this year, most of them launched by threat actors from overseas. The National Cyber Security Centre announced that the U.K. has neutralized more than 600 cyber attacks this year, most of them launched by threat actors from overseas. NCSC Report: U.K.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

According to a report published by the NUKIB Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) in September, China carried out a major cyber attack on a key government institution in the Czech Republic last year. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MARCH 15, 2022

German Federal Office for Information Security agency, also known as BSI, recommends consumers not to use Kaspersky anti-virus software. The German Federal Office for Information Security agency, aka BSI, recommends consumers uninstall Kaspersky anti-virus software. ” reads the BSI announcement.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

In these hours an alleged cyber attack on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu made the headlines, but the KKNPP denies it. Worrying news made the headlines, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) was hit by a cyber attack. Ramdoss, training superintendent and information officer at the power plant, said.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Reddy’s, the Indian contractor for Russia’s “Sputinik V” COVID-19 vaccine was hit with a cyber-attack that forced the company to close its plants. Indian COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories was hit with a cyber attack that forced it to shut down its plants in Brazil, India, Russia, the U.K.,

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