Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2025

Denmark ‘s cybersecurity agency warns of increased state-sponsored campaigns targeting the European telecom companies Denmark raised the cyber espionage threat level for its telecom sector from medium to high due to rising threats across Europe. ” reads the threat assessment.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

There are a lot : The cybersecurity company McAfee recently uncovered a cyber operation, dubbed Operation GoldDragon, attacking South Korean organizations related to the Winter Olympics. Meanwhile, a Russia-linked cyber attack has already stolen and leaked documents from other Olympic organizations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The attacks were being carried out from 2016 and CrowdStrike suspects that the infiltration could have happened through the 2020 revealed vulnerability of SolarWinds software and Linus Systems, where hackers sneak into the systems through SSH Tunnels and Virtual Machines.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2019

Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today political campaigns can accept discounted cybersecurity services from companies without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided those companies already do the same for other non-political entities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 23, 2021

Tokyo Olympics 2021 Opening Ceremony is about to start in a few hours time and organizers are busy checking out the Cybersecurity arrangements meant to protect the Olympics event from state funded hackers. Hacking group named Fancy Bear was assumed to be a prime suspect in the attack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A cyber attack hit the German air traffic control agency (DFS) disrupting its operations, experts attribute it to Russia-linked group APT28. A cyber attack targeted the German Air Traffic Control Agency (DFS), as reported by Spiegel and European Truth. DFS immediately reported the attack to national security authorities.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2019

The German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the software company behind TeamViewer was compromised in 2016 by Chinese hackers. China-linked hackers breached German software company behind TeamViewer in 2016, this news was reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel. “In autumn 2016, TeamViewer was target of a cyber-attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 5, 2022

San Francisco Federal Court convicted Joe Sullivan, the Ex- CEO of Uber, for hiding a massive data breach that took place in the year 2016. The post Uber CEO convicted for hiding 2016 data breach appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. More details will be updated shortly! .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

NHK, a Japan-based news resource, has published that a cyber attack launched by a hacking group linked to Chinese military targeted nearly 200 research firms and institutions from Japan. TICK, a hacking group funded by People’s Liberation Army is said to be involved in the attack and is reported to be active since 2009.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Germany has officially put the blame on Russian government for launching cyber attacks to disrupt the country’s general elections. To those uninitiated, the Vladimir Putin led nation has been facing allegations from countries like UK and US for influencing its elections since 2016.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The analysis of laptops used in some Durham County precincts on Election Day in November 2016 showed inaccurate data to poll workers. On Monday, the U.S. ” continues AP news.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

the company behind the interactive “pew-pew” cyber attack map shown in the image below? Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles. A snapshot of Norse’s semi-live attack map, circa Jan. Remember Norse Corp. ,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 15, 2022

Thus, with the latest achievement, Ukraine joined the list of countries that won the singing contest for the third time, i.e. in 2004, 2016 and in 2022. . The post Russia launched multiple cyber attacks on Eurovision Song Contest appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 20, 2024

The art of detecting subtle anomalies, predicting emergent vulnerabilities and remediating novel cyber-attacks is becoming more refined, day by day. Leading cybersecurity vendors have recognized this development; and they are innovating clever ways to bring GenAI and LLM to bear.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2021

A Cyber Attack on one of the technology suppliers to Canada Post has reportedly resulted in the leak of information of more than 950,000 customers. And sources say that the primary postal operator of Canada is taking all Cybersecurity measures to prevent such incidents in the future.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

On Monday, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that multiple sources were reporting a cybersecurity breach at Wipro, a major trusted vendor of IT outsourcing for U.S. based company in 2016 and 2017. That investigation determined the attackers also used ScreenConnect to access computers belonging to Maritz employees.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

The explosion of ransomware and similar cyber incidents along with rising associated costs is convincing a growing number of insurance companies to raise the premiums on their cyber insurance policies or reduce coverage, moves that could further squeeze organizations under siege from hackers. In addition, the U.S.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 5, 2019

The partially redacted bipartisan report describes several findings related to Russian activities, including: “While the Committee does not know with confidence what Moscow’s intentions were, Russia may have been probing vulnerabilities in voting systems to exploit later… [or] may have sought to undermine confidence in the 2016 U.S.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

If you’re wondering how to protect your small business against a cyber attack, you’re not alone. Almost 60% of cyber attack victims are small businesses, and within two years of the first attack, the likelihood that a small business will experience another is approximately 28%.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 11, 2022

After almost 6 months of war with Ukraine, Russia seems to have hit it digitally and so is reportedly launching wiper cyber attacks that could clean off data on the targeted computers on a permanent note. The post Russia launching wiper malware cyber attacks against Ukraine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 30, 2021

Going further into details, a French Cybersecurity researcher named Elliot Anderson is claiming to have found a data trove of over 3.5 Note 3- As per the stats released in November 2016, MobiKwik reported having over 1.5 The post Over 100 million MobiKwik user data leaked in Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

or MEDC, I’m prepared to rechristen Michigan the Cybersecurity Best Practices State. I was recently privileged to be part of a group of journalists covering the 2018 North American International Cyber Summit at Detroit’s Cobo Convention Center. Related: Michigan moves to close the cybersecurity skills gap. Getting proactive.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

There’s oil in the state of Maryland – “cyber oil.” With the largest concentration of cybersecurity expertise –– the “oil” — in the world, Maryland is fast changing from the Old Line State into “Cybersecurity Valley.” The state counts approximately 109,000 cyber engineers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to a research carried out by Maryland based Cybersecurity firm Tenable, hackers are targeting millions of home routers to add them to the Mirai botnet radar that is used to launch DDoS Cyber attack campaigns. The post Millions of home routers on Mirai Botnet Radar appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 12, 2021

Over the ensuing years, experts have repeatedly pointed out that not only were many of the technology systems being deployed to improve the efficiency of fuel distribution infrastructure management introducing dangerous vulnerabilities, but that a cyber-attack against the operator of a fuel pipeline was eventually going to both occur and succeed.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service warns of state-sponsored attacks aimed at liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the country. Bruno Kahl, the President of the Bundesnachrichtendienst intelligence service since 2016, warned of state-sponsored attacks aimed at liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the country.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Achieving funding is no simple task, and cybersecurity entrepreneurs have a difficult path competing in a complex and competitive landscape. Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

This breach, like every major ransomware attack, was likely because of spear phishing, where someone either received the malware via an emailed attachment or clicked on a link that took them to a website that hosted it. In fact, in March 2016, I wrote a piece in CNN calling for urgent action and offering solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

The editors of eSecurity Planet have been giving advice to enterprise security buyers for more than a decade, and for the last five years we’ve been rating the top enterprise cybersecurity products, compiling roughly 50 lists to date on every product imaginable, from networks to endpoints and out to the cloud and beyond.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

Cyber attacks are a threat to businesses of all sizes and in all industries. This makes it even more important for businesses and organizations to make cybersecurity a priority. As cyber-attacks become more frequent and advanced, businesses need to be prepared to respond to incidents. trillion annually.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Australian Bureau of Statistics has made an official confirmation that it has defended its IT infrastructure from over a billion cyber-attacks. ABS, in association with the Australian Cyber Security Centre, is preparing to mitigate malicious cyber attacks with related software and hardware.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 22, 2020

Some major cyber threat news from the land down under. Cyber attacks hitting Australian organizations. The country is facing a massive, sophisticated cyber attack from a state-based cyber actor. When the victim is an entire country, finding the perpetrator of a state-based cyber attack is even more critical.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Cybersecurity firm states it has already started protecting its government and enterprise customers from the evil intentions of those spreading Pegasus espionage software tool and this has been going on since 2016 or when the said malware was first detected.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

First, there’s a tool called the Rapid Cyber Risk Scorecard. NormShield, the Vienna, VA-based, cybersecurity firm that supplies this service, recently ran scores for all of the 26 declared presidential candidates — and found the average cyber risk score to be B+.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

Prosecutors have charged 45-year-old security executive Vikas Singla with 18 violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act related to a 2018 cyber attack on the Gwinnett Medical Center in Georgia. The post Security company exec and founder charged with facilitating cyber attack on Georgia hospital appeared first on SC Media.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

According to IBM , the cost of cyber hacks in 2020 is about $3.86 Thus, understanding how cybersecurity and data privacy plays a priority role in organizations, especially in a multilingual setting. But, what is the relationship of languages in data privacy, and how can a reliable translation help prevent cyber-attacks?

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