CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

New York Metropolitan Transport Authority, well known shortly as MTA was reportedly hit by a cyber attack in April this year and sources report that the incident was limited only to some systems and no employee or customer info was compromised. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2025

authorities have recovered $31 million in cryptocurrency stolen during the 2021 cyberattacks on Uranium Finance. authorities recovered $31 million in cryptocurrency stolen in 2021 cyberattacks on Uranium Finance, which is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on Binances BNB Chain.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 28, 2021

Cancer treatment services across the United States have taken a big hit as a cyber attack is said to have disrupted the software services operating in the High-tech radiation machines used to treat the malign disease. The post Cancer Treatment across United States halted by Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 31, 2021

However, this blog’s point is that these forms of cyber attacks will continue and could likely accelerate. The post Best of 2021 – What We Can Learn From the 2021 Microsoft Data Breach appeared first on Security Boulevard. Trying to react after the fact is not the way to do business.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 4, 2022

A Cyber Attack that took place on UK’s Defence Academy early last year was brought to light by Air Marshall Edward Stringer through an interview given to Sky News. The Former Director of the academy stated that the attack went unnoticed by the media as it was not given priority as its consequences were not severe.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 22, 2021

The US Department of Defense Cyber Command has disclosed in a tweet that the US State Department was hit by a cyber attack, just a couple of weeks ago, hinting at a serious data breach. The post Details of US State Department Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 26, 2021

Adding to this torment is a report released by Eurocontrol that says that most of the airliners are facing the constant threat of being hit by a sophisticated cyber attack. According to the report, a total of 775 cyber attacks were launched on airlines over the course of 2020.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2021, law enforcement continued making a tremendous effort to track down, capture and arrest ransomware operators, to take down ransomware infrastructure, and to claw back ransomware payments. Related: The targeting of supply chains. In 2022 we expect to see more aggressive and complex ransomware efforts. Central importance of identity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Atlassian issued an update that the software vulnerability was identified by its security engineers on August 2021 and a fix was issued in the same month. However, there is no evidence that the information reached the hands of hackers as no threat group yet has come forward to take a claim of a cyber attack or the data breach.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Going with the details, Oldsmar, a small town in FL consisting 14,000 people as populace, was hit by a cyber attack on February 5th of 2021. The post Hackers try to poison Florida citizens through Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2021

To all those who are concerned about the increase in cyber attacks on Maritime Industry, here’s an interesting finding to analyze. During a webinar conducted by Riviera, they revealed that the Human errors are causing an increase in cyber attacks on Maritime Industry.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 28, 2024

The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country's Parliament in 2020. The intrusion, per the authorities, is said to have occurred between fall 2020 and early 2021.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 26, 2022

According to the email sent to its customers on June 2nd of this year, the bank’s management detected unauthorized access to the company’s IT network between December 3rd, 2021 and December 4th, 2021. There is no information on why the bank took almost 5-6 months to inform the details of the cyber attack on its valuable customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 11, 2021

The Redwood-based company that stands as the second-largest gaming company in America after Ubisoft stated that it is taking the help of security experts to investigate the incident to the core and assured that it will share all the information related to the cyber attack with other companies and the government.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Tata Power on Friday announced that was hit by a cyber attack. ” “The Tata Power Company Limited had a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure impacting some of its IT systems. The companies are conducting an assessment of their IT infrastructure to percent intrusions and mitigate the risks of cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2021

Researchers warn of a surge in cyber attacks against Microsoft Exchange servers exploiting the recently disclosed ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. The second flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-26857 , is an insecure deserialization vulnerability that resides in the Unified Messaging service. and also as DearCry. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

London based Giant Group has confirmed that its IT infrastructure was suffering repercussions gained through a cyber attack on September 24th,2021 and all its phone, email and other payroll related servers were facing digital disruption.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack, the Department of Defense Cyber Command might have suffered a serious breach. — Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 21, 2021. State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 13, 2021

The post Joe Biden government cyber attacks REvil aka Sodinokibi Ransomware Servers appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. More details are awaited!

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It should come as no surprise that 2021 will be recalled as one of the most disrupting years in the history of cyber-attacks, with ransomware causing mayhem on companies and governments, as well as essential infrastructure, on a scale never previously seen.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 14, 2021

Note- An IBM security report released in March 2021 states that India is the second most attacked country in Asia Pacific Region and 40% of those attacks were related to Ransomware. The report of the computing giant says that most of the attacks were related to the Manufacturing and energy sectors. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 18, 2021

Cybersecurity Researchers from Mandiant have disclosed that millions of IoT devices operating across the globe were vulnerable to cyber attacks because of a flaw in Kalay Cloud platform software supplied by ThroughTek.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The post Gloucester City Council hit by a possible Ransomware Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. But now they are involved in double extortion tactics where they sell the data if the victim fails to pay the demanded ransom for any reason.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Patrick Davidson, the company’s director, issued a press statement that his company’s new policy titled “Cyber War and Cyber Operation Exclusion Clauses” was included after making a detailed survey of pulling back cyber coverage in certain situations.

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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. However, it assured to the media that it will reveal more of the cyber incident details after the probe gets done.

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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 Boulevard

MARCH 16, 2021

However, this blog’s point is that these forms of cyber attacks will continue and could likely accelerate. The post What We Can Learn From the 2021 Microsoft Data Breach appeared first on Security Boulevard. In this blog, we’ll review the details of the most recent breach against the Microsoft Exchange Server.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

. “In internal emails seen by BleepingComputer, IKEA is warning employees of an ongoing reply-chain phishing cyber-attack targeting internal mailboxes. “There is an ongoing cyber-attack that is targeting Inter IKEA mailboxes. ” reports BleepingComputer. Source Bleeping Computer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The agency did not provide further details about the cyber attack such as the ransomware gang behind the incident.No ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack. On January 23, 2023, the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) suffered a ransomware attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As most of the UK populace have decided to stay home and shop safely online ( because of the rise in Omicron Covid variant cases) security experts are expecting a two-fold rise in credentials stuffing cyber attacks in this year. As most of the web traffic will be busy in buying gifts and luxuries for their loved ones.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Google, the business subsidiary of tech giant Alphabet Inc has released a security statement that reveals that over 50,000 users were warned about state funded attacks in this year 2021, so far. The post Google alerts over 50k users about State funded Cyber Attacks appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 26, 2021

It has been a sponsor of Australian Men’s Test Cricket since 2018 and will soon be declared as an official partner of Cricket Australia in 2021. The post Australia Real Estate Domain warns users of a Cyber Attack 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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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2021

Japanese researchers spotted an Olympics-themed wiper targeting Japanese users ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Tokyo Olympics could be a great opportunity for cybercriminals and malware authors, the US FBI warned p rivate US companies of cyberattacks that might attempt to disrupt the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 5, 2025

The China-lined threat actor behind the zero-day exploitation of security flaws in Microsoft Exchange servers in January 2021 has shifted its tactics to target the information technology (IT) supply chain as a means to obtain initial access to corporate networks.

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