Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

A cyber attack affected Ahold Delhaize USA brands, disrupting Giant Food, Hannaford, their pharmacies, and e-commerce services. A cyber attack hit the food giant Ahold Delhaize impacting US pharmacies and supermarket chains owned by the company. The company also notified law enforcement.

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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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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2020

This makes the data more likely to be hacked and stolen. From an agency memo : A new wave of cyber-attacks is targeting Federal Agency Personnel, required to telework from home, during the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Three, employees are more likely to access their organizational networks insecurely.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

voters have appeared on Russian hacking forums. Cybersecurity researchers have determined the records are authentic and current as of March 2020. State and federal government officials have denied that the data was acquired via hacking and have maintained that the data was available through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). “[We]

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Romanian energy supplier Electrica Group suffered a cyber attack that is impacting its operations. The company assured investors that the attack hadn’t affected its critical systems, but temporary disruptions in customer services might occur due to enhanced security protocols. The company serves over 3.8 states Reuters.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Which are the cyber attacks of 2021 that had the major impact on organizations worldwide in terms of financial losses and disruption of the operations? Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that the Colonial Pipeline was shut down due to a cyber attack carried out by the Darkside ransomware gang. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The ransomware attack caused significant service disruptions to local transportation in Pittsburgh. The agency has notified law enforcement and is investigating the security breach with the assistance of cybersecurity experts. ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Hospitality and entertainment company MGM Resorts was hit by a cyber attack that shut down its systems at MGM Hotels and Casinos. Hospitality and entertainment company MGM Resorts was the victim of a cyber attack, the IT infrastructure across the United States was shut down. ” states the New York Times.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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. The post Cyber Attack at the University of Colorado appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2025

The company confirmed no sensitive data was compromised in the attack. “On 16 March 2025, Astral experienced a cybersecurity incident. At this time, no ransomware gang has taken credit for the cyber attack. The Group acted swiftly, implementing all disaster recovery protocols and preparedness plans.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2024

The Japanese video-sharing platform, Niconico, was forced to suspend its services following a cybersecurity incident. “Due to the effects of a large-scale cyber attack, Niconico has been unavailable since early morning on June 8th” reads the incident notice published by the company.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

Outlook.com users have been suffering with intermittent outages from yesterday and news is out that the disruption was caused because of a DDoS cyber attack launched by a hacking group named ‘Anonymous Sudan’. Microsoft acknowledged the outage as true, but failed to label it as a state funded attack.

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 8, 2022

Thank you for not listening to your own cybersecurity experts when they told you to “ Stop hacking Russian websites – you are helping the Russians, not the Ukrainians.” While wars are won with strategy, not trolling, you wasted your own valuable cyber-attack resources on symbolic, rather than meaningful, attacks.

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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. The 3G services offered by Vodafone to prepaid customers were restored within 2 hours of the cyber attack and the restoration work for 4G and 5G networks was underway.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 9, 2023

TechnologyOne, the Australia-based trading firm, has issued a statement stating that some of its systems were targeted by a cyber attack, as a result of which it halted the entire trading process, impacting millions of customers. The post Australia TechnologyOne hit by a Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 7, 2025

Our cybersecurity expert explores the security risks in the automotive industry, from remote hacks to data breaches, and explains the cyber attacks Mazda vehicles may be vulnerable to. The post Mazda Connect Systems Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks appeared first on eSecurity Planet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Kaspersky, a security firm having roots in Russia, has released a prediction filled report stating email servers and satellites becoming key cyber attack targets in the year 2023. Email servers will also top the list of being attacked, as they will be exploited through zero-day vulnerabilities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2023

Going forward, let us list out the victims who have been impacted by the attack after the hack-ers gained control of Moveit file transfer software worldwide, a business unit of Progress Software. The post List of victimized companies of MOVEit Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Insurance companies like Lloyd offer cyber insurance policies that cover a business from facing a business loss during a cyber-attack. However, in coming days, cyber attacks will become uninsurable, as per Mario Greco, the Chief of Zurich Insurance. isn’t it? .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

has charged a Chinese national for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. has charged the Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (aka gbigmao and gxiaomao) for hacking thousands of Sophos firewall devices worldwide in 2020. Sophos) an information technology company that develops and markets cybersecurity products.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Statement of the #ICC Spokesperson on recent cybersecurity incident pic.twitter.com/CkPPuoaSHm — Int'l Criminal Court (@IntlCrimCourt) September 19, 2023 The organization immediately activated the incident response plan to mitigate the incident. It was established by the Rome Statute, which entered into force on July 1, 2002.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 27, 2023

Retaliating this move, Kremlin might have thought to take vengeance through cyber-attacks against the west and the first nation to be targeted was Germany. The post Russia starts cyber attacks on the West with Germany for supporting Ukraine appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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

MAY 31, 2022

Italy has placed all its Critical Infrastructure on high alert as it is facing a cyber threat from the Pro-Russian hacking group Killnet. However, the intensity of the attacks is increasing because of sophistication and so CSIRT has asked all public and private entities to increase vigil over their digital infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

CISA adds Windows and Qualcomm bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Three new Ivanti CSA zero-day actively exploited in attacks Ukrainian national pleads guilty in U.S. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A few days ago, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) based in Delhi was hit by a cyber attack of ransomware variant and sources report that the hackers are demanding Rs 200 Crores to return the stolen information belonging to millions of patients that would be otherwise sold on the dark web.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

FBI has issued a warning that cybercriminals are hiding credentials on home IP addresses after hacking connected devices like IP cams and routers. And unless business firms come up with foolproof tactics inducted into their products and services, home users will remain exposed to such cyber attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But what if the platform itself gets infiltrated and leaks the whole of its database to cyber crooks? Well, unconfirmed reports state that the entire database owned by the Microsoft Regional Director Troy Hunt was hacked by cyber criminals through an unknown vulnerability. Wait, the threat doesn’t end here!

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2024

On February 21, a cyber attack disrupted IT operation of the healthcare organization, more than 100 Change Healthcare applications were impacted. “Change Healthcare can confirm we are experiencing a cybersecurity issue perpetrated by a cybercrime threat actor who has represented itself to us as ALPHV/Blackcat.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

A cyber attack has been disrupting operations at Synlab Italia, a leading provider of medical diagnosis services, since April 18. Since April 18, Synlab Italia, a major provider of medical diagnosis services, has been experiencing disruptions due to a cyber attack.

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Penetration Testing

DECEMBER 1, 2024

North Korean-linked hacking group TA-RedAnt has been implicated in a sophisticated large-scale cyber attack dubbed “Operation Code on Toast,” targeting unsuspecting users through a novel Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday issued sanctions against a Beijing-based cybersecurity company known as Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated for orchestrating several cyber attacks against U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Related: High-profile healthcare hacks in 2021. The risks are real, and the impact of cybersecurity events continues to grow. However, all is not lost if your healthcare organization is starting its cybersecurity journey, or even if you have a mature cybersecurity program. Evaluate data inventory. Scheduling?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The cyber attack that hit the cleaning products manufacturer Clorox in August is still affecting the supply of the products to customers. In response to the cyber attack, the company has taken some of its systems offline while it was implementing additional “protections and hardening measures to further secure them”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 11, 2023

The spokesperson also added that the latest cyber-attack on the University of Manchester has no link to the Moveit hack where employee data of some companies including BBC, Boots and British Airways was com-promised. Unconfirmed sources state that the act was conducted by a hacking gang named ‘Anonymous Sudan’.

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