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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As we approach the end of 2021, we’d like to present our predictions for 2022 for the application security community. The post Cyber Security Predictions for 2022 appeared first on K2io. The post Cyber Security Predictions for 2022 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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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 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

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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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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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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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 9, 2022

COVID relief funds, Rackspace was hit by a ransomware attack and Denmark's defence ministry gets hit with a cyber attack. The post Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of December 5, 2022 appeared first on Security Boulevard. Apple introduces advanced data protection for iCloud, Chinese hackers stole U.S.

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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. However, the company has assured that no personal info or bank details were leaked in the attack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

LockBit ransomware operators have published sensitive data allegedly stolen from the Simone Veil hospital in Cannes. In April, a cyber attack hit the Hospital Simone Veil in Cannes (CHC-SV), impacting medical procedures and forcing personnel to return to pen and paper.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Alphv ransomware group added the Morrison Community Hospital to its dark web leak site. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claims to have hacked the Morrison Community Hospital and added it to its dark web Tor leak site. Stats for 2022 in the link. Stats for 2022 in the link. million).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 9, 2022

The government of Costa Rica declared a national emergency on May 8th, 2022, Sunday, as most of its government websites were impacted by ransomware, disrupting servers and back-end operations to the core. Second is the news related to the Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack that took place at the same time last year.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 29, 2022

Second is the news related to Baton Rouge General Health System (GHS), a healthcare service provider that disclosed yesterday that it was hit by a cyber attack in June this year leaking patient details to hackers. Third is the news related to Napa Valley College, which released a press statement admitting a ransomware attack.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

American worldwide logistics and freight forwarding company Expeditors International shuts down global operations after cyber attack. The company discovered the attack on February 20, 2022, it doesn’t provide details about the attack and announced to have launched an investigation into the incident.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ransomware group BlackCat has claimed responsibility for the attack. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the ransomware group, which is also referred to as ALPHV, had compromised more than 60 entities in early 2022. FNF's claim of having 'contained' the attack by Nov. In an SEC filing on Nov.

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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

APRIL 26, 2022

A spokesperson from Nordic Hotels & Resorts released a press statement yesterday that personal details of about 15k customers belonging to Helsinki Hotel were accessed by hackers via a cyber attack as the details were compromised from a reservation system also used by Hotel Kamp and F6 Hotel.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2024

Medusa ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack against the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA). On January 23, 2023, the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) suffered a ransomware attack. As of 2022, the company reported an annual ridership of 10,572,100.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 26, 2022

According to a press update released by the company on Monday, the incident took place on July 19th,2022 and the owner PB Fintech discovered that the threat actors made the fraudulent access through a server vulnerability, that now has been fixed.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Lorenz ransomware gang has been active since April 2021 and hit multiple organizations worldwide demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom to the victims. At the time of this writing, the Loren group has started uploading the stolen data (95%) US Healthcare organizations continue to be a privileged target of ransomware gangs.

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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. In the past few weeks, several companies and government entities were hit by DarkSide Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

“On 31 March 2022 Nordex Group IT security detected that the company is subject to a cyber security incident. ” Nordex did not disclose technical details of the cyberattack, but the fact that it was forced to shut down part of its IT infrastructure suggests that it fell victim to a ransomware attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Things like AI / ML, cloud computing, the cybersecurity skills gap, and ransomware are not really predictions but instead blatantly obvious. 2022 Cybersecurity Predictions. Ransomware as a threat is already established and well known. Predictions”. What we see today is not that simple.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2022

The top ransomware gangs have become so relentless that it’s not unusual for two or more of them to attack the same company within a few days – or even a few hours. Related: How ‘IABs’ foster ransomware. In short, overlapping cyber attacks have become the norm. Security teams face a daunting challenge.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team has made it official that Vice Society, a hacking group, is behind multiple ransomware attacks that were being targeted at education, government and retail sectors. NOTE- In case a company falls prey to ransomware, it is better to avoid paying a ransom.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The LockBit ransomware group published data allegedly stolen from the aerospace giant Boeing in a recent attack. In 2022, Boeing recorded $66.61 billion in sales, the aerospace giant has 156,000 (2022). At the end of October, the Lockbit ransomware group added Boeing to the list of victims on its Tor leak site.

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Bleeping Computer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Hive ransomware operation claimed responsibility for an attack on the New York Racing Association (NYRA), which previously disclosed that a cyber attack on June 30, 2022, impacted IT operations and website availability and compromised member data. [.].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

NVIDIA, the silicon processor making company of North America, has issued a public statement that few of its servers were affected by a ransomware attack that has nothing to do with the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. The post Ransomware attack on NVIDIA appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

The German automotive and arms manufacturer Rheinmetall announced it was victim of a Black Basta ransomware attack that took place last month. The company this week announced it was victim of a ransomware attack conducted by the Black Basta ransomware group.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Australian government has imposed a ban on ransom payments in cyber attack incidents as it fears that such payments can encourage crime affecting millions of populaces at a time. In case of ransomware, the victim is being asked to shell out millions to free up data.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this point, it has become cliché to say that nothing in 2022 turned out the way we expected. Similarly, at the beginning of February 2022, we noticed a huge spike in the amount of activity related to Gamaredon C&C servers. Some of them were particularly sophisticated.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A ransomware hit Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in the early hours of today, crippling a portion of the institute’s network from the past 5 hours. The second largest University seems to have been hit badly as whole of the printers operating in the campus are displaying the ransomware note.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2022

A SaaS security company says a spike in cyber attacks from Russia and China in recent weeks suggests the two countries may be coordinating their cyber efforts. “The vast volumes of data analyzed suggests these countries may even be coordinating attack efforts. .” Most Common Critical Alerts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 28, 2023

After the military group named Wagner took over the supremacy realms from Putin for a brief period in the last weekend, a new ransomware is said to be threatening all Windows machines operating in the Russian federation. The post Wagner Ransomware targets Russian Computers operating on Windows appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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