Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Australia reeling from massive cyber attacks, suspected Lapsus$ gang member arrested in Brazil, cyber criminals target German newspapers with ransomware. The post Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of October 17, 2022 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 11, 2023

Tokyo MoU, the most active regional port control organization in the Asia Pacific, has revealed that its data was compromised for months and that hackers gained fraudulent access through a cyber attack. It is unclear how the attack has impacted the servers of the Port State Control (PSC) platform.

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We have all received plenty of advice on how to avoid being harmed by cyber-attacks, but staying safe can often be confusing, complicated, or impractical. This important webinar will take place on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at 2:00 PM US Eastern (11:00 AM US Pacific = 7:00 PM UTC/GMT).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Central government employees of India will receive a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on Cyber Attacks by this month and suggesting measures to take before a cyber attack and steps to mitigate risks, if in case, an organization becomes a victim to a digital attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Succession Wealth, a financial wealth management service offering company, has released a press statement that a cyber attack targeted its servers and it can only reveal details after the investigation gets concluded. Prima Facie revealed that hackers accessed no client data in the attack.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

” Also read: Cybersecurity Employment in 2022: Solving the Skills Gap. Also read: How to Get Started in a Cybersecurity Career. The Top Cybersecurity Certifications. With that advice in mind, here are 15 cybersecurity certifications particularly worth considering. As of mid-2022, the cost is $381 USD.

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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. The post Western Digital shuts systems due to Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In the world of cybersecurity in particular, the end of the year brings an avalanche of predictions for what the threat landscape will look like in the year ahead. Things like AI / ML, cloud computing, the cybersecurity skills gap, and ransomware are not really predictions but instead blatantly obvious. 2022 Cybersecurity Predictions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Harry Rosen, the Men’s wear chain of Canada, has recently announced that its servers were hit by a cyber attack on October 9th of this year and information related to certain sensitive projects, marketing, HR, Public Relations and Staff were stolen by hackers. More details are awaited!

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2022

Albanian government services suffer a ‘massive’ cyber attack, LinkedIn remains the most impersonated brand and favorite of phishing attacks, How Conti ransomware hacked and encrypted the Costa Rican government. The post Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of July 18, 2022 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 27, 2023

Russia launched a war on Ukraine, its neighboring country, on February 24th of the year 2022. As the war is fast approaching the one year long milestone, Putin intensified the war by attacking the civilian populace from December last year.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Guardian’s Australian staff were targeted in a sophisticated cyber attack that led to the leak of personal information of 140 current and former staff members. NOTE 1- The Guardian’s UK branch was the first to get targeted in the attack on December 20th,2022 and it was of ransomware variant.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

Finland's defence and foreign affairs ministries have just been hit with a cyber attack, VMware urges customers to update their software to resolve critical vulnerabilities, a major British retailer shuts down stores after a cyberattack and a data breach impacts Spanish energy giant Iberdrola.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2023

Since June 11th, 2023, Floating Point Group (FPG) has been hit by a devastating cyber attack, leading to the suspension of all trading, deposits, and withdrawals. While the company has not provided a specific timeline, it has reassured users that its IT staff are working tirelessly to mitigate the risks associated with the attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A malicious cyber attack has reportedly hit Vodafone Portugal servers, bringing the 4G and 5G network across the country to a complete halt since February 7th,2022. Note 1- In January 2022, the hacking group named Lapsu$ Group hackers digitally stormed into the TV network of Impresa.

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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

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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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

CitiBank is hit with a large-scale phishing campaign, a massive cyber attack has a devastating impact at a logistics giant and a warning for Cisco’s Firepower firewalls customers. The post Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of February 21, 2022 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 18, 2023

German-based company Rheinmetall has become a victim of a cyber attack recently, and hackers fraudulently accessed data related to industrial customers, largely from the automobile sector. Those who had Facebook accounts from May 24th, 2007, to Dec 22nd, 2022, will be eligible to gain some monetary benefits from the settled amount.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 28, 2022

Microsoft released a report that cloud applications are acting as catalysts for cyber attacks as it detected over 1.5 million attack attempts on cloud environments in a time frame of just 60 months. Researchers saw a rise in the attacks, as most of the targets were service providers whose impact was directly felt by customers.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

According to a new report released by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant, Russia’s cyber attacks against Ukraine increased by 250% in 2022. The company said it observed […] The post Google Confirms Increase In Russian Cyber Attacks Against Ukraine appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

Often, such information is used by hackers to launch identity thefts, brute force attacks and other such digital invasions. The multimedia business provider says that all the passwords stored on its servers were hashed as per the basic cybersecurity hygiene and so, the damage with the data theft could be minimal.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2022

A downtime caused on the network of Cloudflare was claimed to be a cyber attack by some online news resources. But the cloud service giant responded by giving a press statement that the disruption caused on Monday this week was because of a network change and not by digital attack.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Dragos Security on Wednesday unveiled a "Community Defense Program" to provide free cybersecurity software for small utilities providing water, electric, and natural gas in the United States. The post Dragos Community Defense Program Helps Small Utilities Facing Cyber Attacks appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 31, 2022

He asked all the technology CEOs, and the business heads to bolster their in-house cybersecurity measures to mitigate the cyber risks emerging from Moscow. Cyber Attack on Verizon’s network and generating spam from the users’ own phone numbers needs a lot of technical expertise of international standards.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Telefonica, the company that offers internet related services in Spain, was hit by a cyber attack almost two weeks ago. However, the company has assured that no personal info or bank details were leaked in the attack. The post Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Indian Council of Medical Research, shortly known as ICMR, was hit by cyber attacks on November 30th, 2022, and reports are that hackers made over 6,000 attempts to breach the firewall in a time frame of just 24 hours.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Worst in terms of outright scariness is CVE-2022-37969 , which is a “privilege escalation” weakness in the Windows Common Log File System Driver that allows attackers to gain SYSTEM-level privileges on a vulnerable host. .” And Adobe axed 63 vulnerabilities in a range of products.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Washington State has revealed in a public statement issued yesterday that it is shutting down its Professional Online Licensing and Regulatory Information System(POLARIS) as it has detected a cyber attack that could have compromised driving license user details to hackers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 24, 2022

General Motors (GM), an American automobile maker, has suggested that a credential stuffing attack that led to the exposure of customer details has hit it to hackers between April 11th–29th,2022. The post Cyber Attack on General Motors exposes customer details 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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SecureBlitz

MARCH 31, 2023

According to recent research, the amount of global cyberattacks grew by as much as 38% in 2022, when compared to 2021. These were orchestrated by smaller, ransomware hackers that focused specifically on tools used in remote working environments.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Every week or month a company in Australia is falling prey to cyber attack and the latest to add to the list is TPG Telecom LTD. According to the sources reporting to our Cybersecurity Insiders, hackers accessed about 15k emails related to corporate customers that can prove as a serious threat in near future.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Microsoft released its Digital Defense Report of 2022, in which it clearly specified that China was targeting smaller nations with intense digital attacks to gather intelligence via cyber espionage. The post China is targeting smaller nations with Cyber Attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Facebook has made any official statement that a team of cybersecurity researchers from its parent company Meta have detected 400 malicious apps that were operating on Android and iOS operating systems and were indulging in stealing credentials of its users. More details with clarity are awaited! .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

News is out that social security numbers of nearly 35,000 users were leaked in a cyber attack that could have emerged from a credential stuffing campaign launched by a state funded actor. According to the update provided by a source from PayPal, the attack took place on December 6 and was identified at the end of last month.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 15, 2022

As Moscow has been banned from participating in the contest because of its invasion on the Zelenskyy led nation from February 2022, Killnet was assigned digitally by bringing down the whole of the contest. Good news is that the command center neutralized all such attacks, as they were already prepared to counter such attacks proactively.

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