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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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2022

Staying Ahead of the Distortion of a Cyber Attack? Each firewall, IDS, MFA, and email security is built to protect and stop cyber attacks. Given this fact, businesses should note the growing number of security issues and cyber threats. However, do most cybersecurity attacks happen the way it is portrayed?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

The attack impacted the services of Schneider Electric’s Resource Advisor cloud platform causing outages. Schneider Electric said that other divisions of the company were not impacted by the cyber attack. The Cactus ransomware relies on multiple legitimate tools (e.g.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2023

The entire event was supposed to be webcast live via the website of the Swedish parliament. Killnet is a group assigned the duty to cyber attack all adversaries of Moscow. Since Sweden is about to join NATO by strongly condemning the Russian war on Ukraine, it was targeted by the Russian hacking group.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 14, 2021

Germany is expecting a cyber attack on the election event that is likely to be held in September this year and says that a foreign nation could intend to do so for reasons. From the past two years, several email accounts of a German Member of Parliament were hacked to access classical info from the accounts, respectively.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Some of the servers of the Italian oil and gas services company Saipem were hit by a cyber attack early this week. The attack has been identified out of India on Monday and primarily affected the servers in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait. “The Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2021

REvil ransomware group having history of launching sophisticated cyber attacks on Kaseya software; JBS Meat and Travelex this year are experiencing strange events these days. The gang’s payment portal and data leak blog have been hacked by some other group throwing the developers into jeopardy.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2023

In response to this event, we’ve taken quick and determined steps to reduce potential risks. . “On the night of August 22, our monitoring systems detected unusual activity within certain areas of our cloud environments. This includes temporarily disabling certain critical systems impacting the Customer Portal.”

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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The findings come from Google's Mandiant, which described the hack as a "multi-event cyber attack" leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS). The actor first used OT-level living-off-the-land (LotL) techniques to

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ransomware group BlackCat has claimed responsibility for the attack. The group is linked to the Colonial Pipeline hack that caused gas prices to spike in 2021 and the hack of MGM Resorts earlier this year.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

In recent months, high-profile incidents have included the far-reaching supply-chain hack of IT management software maker SolarWinds (which a report by cyber risk vendor BitSight and cyber risk modeler Kovrr found could cost insurers as much as $90 million). million (in about 75 Bitcoin).

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

The Department of Energy confirmed that in March a cyber event disrupted power grid operations in California, Wyoming, and Utah. a cyber event disrupted energy grid operations in California, Wyoming, and Utah. utilities are required to notify DOE within one hour of a cyber attack against their systems.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) recently made a statement accusing the United States National Security Agency (NSA) of repeatedly hacking the Northwestern Polytechnical University, a key public military research university located in Xi'an, China. TAO is a tactical implementation unit of the U.S.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 7, 2024

The FBI will host an event exploring agricultural cyber risks in Omaha, Nebraska amid growing concerns of cyber attacks on US agriculture as farms embrace precision agriculture. The post At Nebraska Event, FBI Calls Out Cyber Threats To Agriculture appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 25, 2024

This is due to a technical issue connected to the recent cyber attack, when we were forced to shut down our IT systems. While the investigation is still ongoing, Leicester City Council stated that evidence pointed to the attack being financially motivated rather than an ideological cyberattack.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2018

We have discussed many times the effects of a cyber attack against an electrical grid, the most scaring scenario sees wide power outage bringing population in the dark. Security Affairs – Electrical Grid, hacking). Is this a feasible scenario for the US critical infrastructure? ” reported the E&E News website.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

26 key cyber security stats for 2024 that every user should know, from rising cyber crime rates to the impact of AI technolog y. Cyber Crime Surge: During COVID-19 , cyber crimes shot up by 600%, showing how threats adapt to global changes. Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

VISA is warning of ongoing targeted cyber attacks conducted by crooks on point-of-sale (POS) systems of North American fuel dispenser merchants. According to a security alert published by VISA, the PoS systems of North American fuel dispenser merchants are under attack. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – PoS, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2024

The organization is remediating and investigating the security breach with the help of cyber security specialists, along with federal, state and local agencies. “OneBlood, the not-for-profit blood center serving much of the southeastern United States is experiencing a ransomware event that is impacting its software system.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab investigated artefacts behind Australian Parliament attack to have an insight of Tools and Capabilities associated with the attackers. In the past days, a cyber attack targeted a high profile target on the APAC area: the Australian Parliament House. Figure 7: Code to delete Windows log events.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It is unclear if the threat actors acted for cyber espionage purposes or hacktivism, the content of the message advertising the leak suggests that it was the work of hacktivists, but we cannot exclude that it is the result of a nation-state actor. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NATO). ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The hacked server was used by the company to manage customer information for the Queensland water supplier. The security breach took place between August 2020 and May 2021, the intrusion has been attributed to a financially motivated attacker that deployed a custom implant to redirect visitor traffic to an online video platform.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Manchester United is still facing problems after the cyber attack that suffered last week, it has yet to fully restore its systems. Last week Manchester United was hit by a sophisticated cyber attack , the attack took place on Friday evening and the football club shut down its systems to prevent the malware from spreading within.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

million individuals following a cyber attack. “The investigation confirmed that a cybersecurity event caused the technology issues, resulting in access to or removal of certain files and folders from the HSCs network between September 17 and September 29, 2024.” The ransomware group claimed the theft of 2.6

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After a cyber attack on national telecom operator Optus and Insurance company Medibank, the Australian government has hacked the hackers in order to bring them to knees. For this reason, it has begun the work to track the criminals and hack their servers to siphon the information they possess about millions of customers.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2025

Recent reports show healthcare has endured a record wave of cyber breaches. In 2023 alone, there were 725 hacking-related breaches reported in U.S. healthcare, according to The HIPPA Journal, exposing over 124 million patient records, the worst year on record? million per incident?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2022

Thousands of satellite internet users across Europe were disconnected from the internet by a cyber-event, experts suspect a cyber attack. Around one-third of 40,000 subscribers of the bigblu satellite internet service in Europe, in Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Poland, were impacted by the same cyber event.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2023

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

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Rhadamanthys Stealer Adds Innovative AI Feature in Version 0.7.0

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Schneider Electric said that other divisions of the company were not impacted by the cyber attack. The gang also published several pictures of passports and company documents as proof of the hack. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 22, 2021

It has also accused United States & NATO for circulating misinformation that the Chinese intelligence was funding hacking groups to launch cyber attacks on the west. Chine Foreign Ministry has issued a public statement condemning the distribution and usage of Pegasus Spyware surveillance software by various countries.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Magyar Telekom revealed that the attack was very powerful, it is one of the biggest cyberattacks that ever hit Hungary. “The volume of data traffic in the attack was 10 times higher than the amount usually seen in DDoS events, the company said.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Hungary). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Cactus ransomware group claims to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden. The Cactus ransomware group claims to have hacked Coop and is threatening to disclose a huge amount of personal information, over 21 thousand directories. Threat actors have published ID cards as proof of hack.

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McAfee

MARCH 2, 2021

In cyber security if the “evil” side understands or pays more attention to a technology than the “good” side, we see a spike in cyber-attacks. This course of events demands that both offensively and defensively minded “good guys” band together to remove the unknown from as much technology as possible.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Fitch Ratings published an alert last week to warn of the “material risk” to water and sewer utilities caused by cyber attacks that could also impact their ability to repay debt. The expenses to mitigate a cyber-attack could impact the ability of the utilities of paying their debt. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber risk).

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2021

The cyber attack led to “unprecedented chaos” at rail stations in the country. The Fars agency attempted to downplay the effects of the attack and pointed out that it did not cause disruption. The authorities are investigating both events, but it is not clear if they are linked. ” reported ABC News.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

sPower , a US-based renewable energy provider, was the victim of a cyber attack that disconnected the US power grid operator from its power generation station. sPower , a Utah-based renewable energy provider was hit by a cyber attack, the incident took place in March. grid networks, the attack was not targeted.

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