CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

FBI has issued a formal alert on unpatched medical devices and says that these are extremely vulnerable to cyber attacks because of outdated software. Hackers are often in search of such flaws to launch cyber attacks like spyware or espionage related tools.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The intelligence committee, funded by South Korea’s National Assembly, has revealed that a cyber attack launched on Pfizer at the end of last year was launched by North Korean hackers to steal the intelligence of vaccine research that was co-sponsored by BioNTech.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2021

Several organizations belonging to European Union were targeted by a cyber attack in March this year and news is out that it did partially impact the IT infrastructure of agencies, institutions and private bodies to a certain extent. The post Cyber Attack on European Union Institutions appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

As soon as a cyber attack takes place and hackers gain access to loads of info, such as passwords and usernames, they sell them to other cyber crooks who then use such credentials to take over online accounts. Hence, it becomes tedious for companies and individuals to brace the cyber attacks launched on home IP addresses.

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Digital Shadows

MAY 31, 2021

In December 2020, the world was rocked by an enormous supply chain attack against software provider Solarwinds, which provided unprecedented. The post Cyber Attacks: The Challenge of Attribution and Response first appeared on Digital Shadows.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 23, 2021

Security analysts from West estimate that the much renowned games event might be on the Russian Cyber Attack Radar, as disrupting such events has been a regular practice for the said nation, if history is considered. Hacking group named Fancy Bear was assumed to be a prime suspect in the attack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group has been targeting Israeli organizations with destructive cyber attacks since January. Agonizing Serpens has been active since December 2020, it is known for its destructive wiper and fake-ransomware attacks against Israeli organizations. The tool sqlextractor (binary name sql.net4.exe)

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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. Tokyo Olympics 2020 Games were held at a cost of $15.8

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2021

SolarWinds, a software maker having 300,000 clients around the globe, was hit by a massive cyber attack in early 2020. Note- In December 2020, experts from FireEye discovered that the hackers from Russian exploited a flaw in the software provided by SolarWinds and infiltrated other company networks that used the software.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 15, 2021

For the first time after being elected as a Prime Minister of UK, Boris Johnson spoke about cyber attacks on a direct note. The 57-year-old stated that Britain needs to boost its capacity to conduct cyber attacks and must also conduct digital invasions on foreign nations. “As

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 14, 2021

Quick Recap 2020 was the year that the COVID-19 crisis also brought a cyber pandemic. The post Cyber Attacks: Is the ‘Big One’ Coming Soon? Many CSO, CTOs, military leaders, and even some global company CEOs, are now saying yes. appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2021

McAfee released an ‘MVISION’ Cloud User Report on Tuesday stating that the year 2020 witnessed over 3.1 million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts. And most of them were malware related followed by account hijackings and targeted attacks against vulnerabilities. The post Over 3.1

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 25, 2021

Japan-based Cryptocurrency Exchange Company named ‘Liquid’ was reportedly hit by a cyber attack after which the cyber crooks managed to pull $97 million directly from the e-wallets of several customers. The post Cyber Attack on Crypto Exchange brings $97 million loss to customers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

Interestingly, the IT staff of the Financial firm could not detect the unauthorized intrusion as it was taking place from Dec’2020 to February 2022. The post Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 29, 2022

She said that hospital infrastructure was on the verge of being cyber-attacked by Russian sleeper cells, whose aim is to disrupt the healthcare infrastructure and to create panic among patients and their near & dear.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2021

Mint Mobile, an American Mobile Carrier stated it has become a victim of a cyber attack early last month that ended in a data breach affecting a larger section of its customers. The post Cyber Attack news trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

The year 2020 proved disappointing to many businesses as the lockdown schedules observed across the globe incurred loss to companies in one way or the other. Next in the line will be the online casino industry that lacks adequate measures to mitigate sophisticated cyber risks like DDoS attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

While the lawsuit has been filed in Colorado in Feb’2020, it came to the hearing late because of the Corona crisis and became interesting in its recent hearing to grab the headlines. The post Interesting as Cyber Attack victim sues hackers parents appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Barracuda Email Threat Scanner was used to scan the computer networks of 4550 organizations and out 2,600,531 mailboxes, over 2,029,413 were found to be targeted by unique cyber attacks. The post Millions of Email based Cyber Attacks missed by organizations appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A sophisticated cyber attack launched on an IT firm serving UK’s Labour Party has reportedly leaked sensitive details related to members and supporters. The post Cyber Attack on Labour Party UK leaks sensitive data appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Microsoft, the American tech giant, has warned the government of Australia to halt its response to cyber attacks as it is complicating the company’s attempt to mitigate hacking incidents. The post Microsoft warns Australia for complicating Cyber Attack response appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 3, 2022

Bridgestone America, a company that has its headquarters in Japan, was hit by a cyber attack recently leading to shut down of its tyre manufacturing facilities operating in Illinois, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, along with a facility from Canada.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

According to a media update released by US Census Bureau, hackers launched a cyber attack on the website database in January 2020 with an intention to access or steal data. The post Citrix Vulnerability leads to Cyber Attack on US Census Database appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2022

Lloyd’s London, one of the largest insurance services providers in the world, has disclosed that it is making amendments to its cyber insurance laws that will come into effect from March 2023. NOTE- Attribution of attacks to nations is hard to prove and will never stand in a court of law.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Stormshield, a France-based Cybersecurity firm, has revealed that hackers launched a cyber attack recently to steal its source code. It’s strange that the company that actually provides consultation and mediation services to companies that have been affected by cyber attacks has become the recent target to threat actors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In a separate statement released last week by Microsoft, the American technology giant said that Russia accounted for a majority of 58% cyber threats sent to Americans in 2020; out of which APT29 aka Cozy Bear generated the vast amount (92%) of cyber threat notifications the most.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As per the details to Cybersecurity Insiders, the details were siphoned from a database on December 7th,2020 and was leaked on a hacking forum this week as the car dealership service provider might have not paid heed to the demands of the hackers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 1, 2021

The post claims that the incident took place in 2020 and was a retaliation attack launched by China because of the border dispute with India in Ladakh region. What’s surprising about the incident is that none of the Indian Media resources detailed the blackout as cyber attack as it could induce panic into public.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A survey taken up by CrowdStrike has confirmed that there would probably be an increase in cyber attacks from North Korea as the nation is struggling with economic crisis and food shortage in the nation because of the corona-virus pandemic.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 13, 2022

A cyber attack reportedly hit Albuquerque Public Schools, disrupting its digital systems to the core and forcing the authorities to shut the school operations consecutively for the second day on Friday, i.e. January 14th,2022. The post Cyber attack on New Mexico’s Largest School District appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 15, 2021

All the world leaders who took part at the G7 Summit held in Cornwall, UK have agreed on a unanimous note that ransomware and cyber attacks have emerged as the biggest threats to their nation in recent times. As the gangs spreading the file-encrypting malware managed to steal $81m out of $160 stolen funds in 2020 on a worldwide note.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A Greece-based company that owns Cosmote and OTE was slapped with a €9 million penalty for failing to inform its customers that their data was stolen in a sophisticated cyber attack that occurred in 2020. NOTE- The Greek watch dog has given a specific time frame for OTE to legally raise an objection to any.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

Once an attacker gains access, they can exploit system vulnerabilities, gain access to sensitive data, install different types of malware, and launch cyber-attacks” reads the report published by the NASA’s Office of Inspector General. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

The state Infrastructure of Montenegro was hit by a massive and “unprecedented” cyber attack, authorities announced. An unprecedented cyber attack hit the Government digital infrastructure in Montenegro, the government has timely adopted measures to mitigate its impact. Embassy in the capital Podgorica.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2021

The post BSides Philly 2020 – Raymond Cazanese’ ‘The Cloud Is For Launching Cyber Attacks’ appeared first on Security Boulevard. Many thanks to BSides Philly for publishing their outstanding videos on the organization's YouTube channel.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We likely all agree that 2020 was a year we won't soon forget - for many reasons. One area particularly impacted last year was (and continues to be) cybersecurity.

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