CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2022

Amedia, the Norway’s second largest media company, has issued a public statement that it was hit by a cyber attack that crippled its printing infrastructure affecting its newspaper editions on temporary basis. The post Cyber Attack on Norway Amedia appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 6, 2023

According to a report published by Japanese news resource Nikkei, it has been revealed that the North Korean government is actively engaging in cyber attacks on the digital infrastructure of its adversaries. These cyber attacks have proven to be a lucrative source of income for the reclusive nation.

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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 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. The post Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In a time when advancements in technology rule these days, the constant risk of cyber attacks hangs over businesses all over the world. This study highlighted the difficulties Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) encounter during cyber attacks.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 7, 2024

The integration of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) strategies with emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things are reshaping the corporate risk landscape. Governance Governance refers to the policies, rules, and frameworks that a company needs to follow to meet its business targets.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 2, 2022

Microsoft’s Digital Security Unit has confirmed that Russian cyber attacks on Ukraine were timed in such a way that they coincided with the timing of military strikes. After the war started on February 24th, 2022, Kremlin involved two other groups in cyber attack campaigns.

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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. Coming to the news, the government of Montenegrin has accused Russia of launching cyber attacks on its servers on August 22nd,2022.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

Spy”-type cyberspace race as both criminals and defenders vie to gain the upper hand using new and emerging technologies. Every technology that enables our cyber teams to pinpoint and resolve threats and prevent attacks more quickly and accurately also benefits cybercriminals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Several of the digital twin technologies out there have grown fast in only a few years. Picture establishing a virtual model of IT infrastructure where one can identify loopholes, create attack scenarios, and prevent catastrophic attacks before the system is officially put in place. What’s a digital twin? Final thoughts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A Cyber Attack has caused a temporary fuel supply in whole of Germany with situation intended to improve only after 10 days. Oiltanking GmbH Group and Mabanaft Group are the two firms that were deeply affected by the digital attack, resulting in halting the Operational Technology Systems to the core.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 9, 2019

Government has impacted federal cybersecurity according to several reports. The roughly 800,000 federal workers currently on furlough include: 45% of staff from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency , which is tasked with defending critical infrastructure from cyber and physical threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2021

United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) is busy calling startups that could help in shrinking its cyber attack surface by developing new hardware and software tools as per the current cyber landscape. The post UK Defense to seek help from startups to reduce Cyber Attack Surface appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In a recent study made by Gartner, Lloyd’s emerged as a top company that increased its coverage premiums by 50% in 2021, all because of a global impact of ransomware attacks on corporate and government networks.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2021

Poland ‘s government announced that it was targeted by an ‘Unprecedented’ series of cyber attacks, hackers hit against institutions and individuals. Poland’s parliament had a closed-door session to discuss an unprecedented wave of cyber attacks that hit its institutions and individuals.

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Adam Levin

JULY 19, 2019

The Kazakhstan government is intercepting all HTTPS-encrypted internet traffic within its borders. Under a new directive effective 7/17, the Kazakhstan government is requiring every internet service provider in the country to install a security certificate onto every internet-enabled device and browser. Read more about the story here.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to the experts of the Singapore-based cybersecurity firm the group of threat actors are from India and were super active between June and November 2021, thus attacking government, military and law enforcement organizations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 19, 2024

Technology, research, and government sectors in the Asia-Pacific region have been targeted by a threat actor called BlackTech as part of a recent cyber attack wave. The intrusions pave the way for an updated version of modular backdoor dubbed Waterbear as well as its enhanced successor referred to as Deuterbear.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

TAG has so far kept a track of over 270 government funded threat groups operating in over 500 countries and is also behind some noted state funded hackers from nations such as China and Russia. The post Google alerts over 50k users about State funded Cyber Attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

The government institutions of Moldova have been hit by a wave of phishing attacks since the country offered support to Ukraine. The government institutions of Moldova have been hit by a wave of phishing attacks, threat actors sent more than 1,330 emails to accounts belonging to the country’s state services.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

China is once again in the news for misusing the technology of Artificial Intelligence. Privacy advocates across the world say that such mass surveillance programs do more bad than good as they make the populace get a feeling that their government never trusts them. More details awaited!

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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 Census Bureau issued an update that the attack took place as hackers tried their best to exploit a Citrix Vulnerability to remotely execute a malicious code.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

The Israeli government has issued an alert to organizations in the water sector following a series of cyberattacks that targeted the water facilities. “As of this morning, reports have been received in the National Cyber ?? ” reads the alert issued by the Israeli government. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 27, 2021

Fujitsu, an IT services firm from Japan was recently targeted by cybercriminals stealing sensitive data belonging to government offices says a report released by NHK- a Japan-based media resource. . Note 2- Fujitsu did not reveal any information about the variant of cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2023

. “Chinese cyberspies, exploiting a fundamental gap in Microsoft’s cloud, hacked email accounts at the Commerce and State departments, including that of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo — whose agency has imposed stiff export controls on Chinese technologies that Beijing has denounced as a malicious attempt to suppress its companies.”

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 12, 2019

In the last year, the news media has been full of stories about vicious cyber breaches on municipal governments. From Atlanta to Baltimore to school districts in Louisiana, cyber criminals have launched a wave of ransomware attacks on governments across the country.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 3, 2021

Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic. Cyber criminals are always eager to take advantage of emergencies to further launch their nefarious actions. Besides dealing with the public health pandemic, healthcare providers must deal with another pandemic: cyber-attacks. An expanding attack surface.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The post Dragos Community Defense Program Helps Small Utilities Facing Cyber Attacks appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. 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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Iranian airline Mahan Air was hit by a cyberattack on Sunday morning, the “Hooshyarane Vatan” hacker group claimed responsibility for the attack. Iranian private airline Mahan Air has foiled a cyber attack over the weekend, Iranian state media reported. The airliner’s flight schedule was not affected by the cyberattack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2020

A state-based actor is launching cyber attacks against government, public services and businesses, Australia ‘s prime minister said. Australia ‘s prime minister Scott Morrison said that a “state-based actor” is targeting government, public services, and businesses.

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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 6, 2021

Chinese espionage groups are notorious for global cyber-attacks that target state agencies, research institutes, military contractors, and other agencies and institutions with espionage in mind. . Group-IB performed an in-depth analysis of the malware families used by the attackers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 3, 2021

Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic. Cyber criminals are always eager to take advantage of emergencies to further launch their nefarious actions. Besides dealing with the public health pandemic, healthcare providers must deal with another pandemic: cyber-attacks. An expanding attack surface.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The incident underscores the critical dependence of healthcare institutions on reliable technology and data security. What role should the government play in cybersecurity preparedness? Operational disruptions The cyberattack also disrupted Fred Hutch's operations, forcing the shutdown of some systems and delaying patient appointments.

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