Tag: cyberattack

August 18, 2023

The new policy, NCUA announced, comes into effect on September 1, and will cover all incidents that impact information systems or the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of data on those systems. “Beginning on September 1, 2023, all federally insured credit […]

April 7, 2023

Owners of MSI-brand motherboards, GPUs, notebooks, PCs, and other equipment should exercise caution when updating their device’s firmware or BIOS after the manufacturer revealed it has recently suffered a cyberattack. In a statement shared on Friday, MSI urged users “to […]

March 28, 2023

An advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has a track record of targeting India and Afghanistan has been linked to a new phishing campaign that delivers Action RAT. According to Cyble, which attributed the operation to SideCopy, the activity cluster […]

March 6, 2023

The cyberattack started on February 8 and was disclosed on February 10, when Oakland announced that it had taken systems offline to contain the incident, but that emergency services were not impacted. One week later, while continuing restoration efforts, the […]

February 13, 2023

NATO’s Special Operations Headquarters and Strategic Airlift Capability — both working to deliver humanitarian aid to victims of the recent Turkish-Syrian earthquake — were among NATO organizations disrupted by a weekend cyberattack. Russian-based Killnet threat group has claimed responsibility for […]

February 3, 2023

A recent ransomware(opens in new tab) attack against ION Group has sent ripples throughout the finance industry and trading world, being so disruptive that the FIA global trading organization released a statement saying it jumped in to help affected members. […]

January 4, 2023

The US-based firm provides railway equipment, systems, and services worldwide and has offices in the Americas, Australia, and Europe. The company has roughly 27,000 employees. In a data breach notice, Wabtec says branches in the US, Canada, UK, and Brazil […]

December 29, 2022

A regional community healthcare system consisting of several facilities, LCMHS identified the cyberattack on October 25 and started informing the impacted patients of the incident on December 23. In a notification on its website, LCMHS says that ‘an unauthorized third […]

October 18, 2022

One of the largest private health insurers in Australia, the Medibank Group serves more than 3.9 million individuals through its Medibank and ahm brands. Initially identified on October 12, the unusual activity was “consistent with the precursors to a ransomware […]

October 3, 2022

On September 22, the wireless carrier announced it had fallen victim to a cyberattack that resulted in the potential compromise of the personally identifiable information of some of its customers, without providing specifics on the number of impacted individuals. Days […]

September 20, 2022

Financial technology firm Revolut has suffered a cyberattack that saw sensitive client information accessed by threat actors. The company has confirmed the “highly targeted” attack, which saw hackers gain access to internal systems through phishing, rather than malware(opens in new […]

September 12, 2022

The coordinated attack that started around Aug. 20 crippled online government information platforms and put Montenegro’s essential infrastructure, including banking, water and electricity power systems, at high risk. The attack, described by experts as unprecedented in its intensity and the […]

September 9, 2022

A Netwrix survey revealed that 47% of educational institutions suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure within the last 12 months. For 27% of them, incidents in the cloud were associated with unplanned expenses to fix security gaps. “Educational institutions […]

September 7, 2022

Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran following a summer cyberattack that disrupted the country’s online governmental services portal. Prime Minister Edi Rama today said he gave Iranian diplomats 24 hours to depart the country after establishing Iranian responsibility for the […]

August 27, 2022

The Agency for National Security, or ANB, said Montenegro is “under a hybrid war at the moment.” The Adriatic Sea state, once considered a strong Russian ally, in 2017 joined NATO despite strong opposition from Moscow. It has also joined […]

August 25, 2022

66% of organizations have changed their cybersecurity strategy as a direct response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, while 64% suspect their organization has been either directly targeted or impacted by a nation-state cyber attack, according to Venafi. Other […]

July 18, 2022

Albania was hit by a massive cyberattack over the weekend, the government confirmed on Monday. A synchronized criminal attack from abroad hit the servers of the National Agency for Information Society (AKSHI), which handles many government services. “In order to […]

June 15, 2022

The APWG’s Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that in the first quarter of 2022 there were 1,025,968 total phishing attacks—the worst quarter for phishing observed to date. This quarter was the first time the three-month total has exceeded one million. […]

June 7, 2022

Zscaler released the findings of its annual ThreatLabz Ransomware Report, which revealed an 80 percent increase in ransomware attacks year-over-year. In 2022, the most prevalent ransomware trends include double-extortion, supply chain attacks, ransomware-as-a-service, ransomware rebranding, and geo-political incited ransomware attacks. […]

May 25, 2022

A research published by DNV reveals that energy executives anticipate life, property, and environment-compromising cyberattacks on the sector within the next two years. The report finds that more than four-fifths of professionals working in the power, renewables, and oil and […]