Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2025

South African Airways (SAA) is the national flag carrier of South Africa, the airline is wholly owned by the South African government and has subsidiaries including SAA Technical and Air Chefs. The company did not share technical details about the cyber attack.

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Lohrman on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2021

2021 will be remembered as the most disruptive year so far when it came to cyber attacks, with ransomware impacting businesses and governments — including critical infrastructure — as never before.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2025

The fact that everything from air, rail, and road transport to hospitals and schools has ceased to function is a massive wakeup call to those governments." Disaster response, or the lack thereof, has been a major issue for the Spanish government recently, and this situation is another test of its capabilities."

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

A cyber attack hit the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the federal and national law enforcement agency of Canada. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the federal and national law enforcement agency of Canada, confirmed that it was the target of a cyber attack.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 15, 2024

A suspected Pakistan-based threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting Indian government entities in 2024. It is a modified version of the public project

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Lohrman on Security

JUNE 27, 2022

State and local governments need to prepare and respond to a new round of cyber attacks coming from groups claiming to be protesting the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last Friday.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2023

First, is the news that the Indian government has launched its own Mobile Operating systems that have capabilities to take on international rivals like iOS and Android. Called as IndOS, the OS will be available on devices being sold on the Indian subcontinent and will have all pre-loaded government apps that are there to service the citizen.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Technion University, one of the top technology schools in Israel, has issued a press update that most of its systems were targeted by a ransomware attack and it could be the work of the DarkBit hacking group, a gang that is opposing the government policies of Israel. TB from the servers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Government institutions in Bulgaria have been hit by a cyber attack during the weekend, experts believe it was launched by Russian threat actors. The infrastructure of government institutions in Bulgaria has been hit by a massive DDoS attack. — Ivan Geshev (@IvanGeshevPG) October 15, 2022. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2025

France blames Russia-linked APT28 for cyberattacks targeting or compromising a dozen French government bodies and other entities. The Russia-linked APT28 group has targeted or compromised a dozen government organizations and other French entities, the French Government states.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 9, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a threat actor known as Sticky Werewolf that has been linked to cyber attacks targeting entities in Russia and Belarus.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 1, 2025

Each vendor is grappling with what may be the defining question of the moment in cybersecurity: how do we stay ahead of cyber attackers weaponizing AI, without drowning in complexity or cost? Theyre totally different tech and governance models. You cant govern what you cant see, Mogull said. Theyre not.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania, a government agency reported. Albania’s National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security (AKCESK) revealed that cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A Ukrainian government source told Reuters that Kyiv’s hackers are behind the cyber attack that disrupted operations at the Russian state media company VGTRK on Putin’s birthday. Early on Monday, the cyber attack took offline the website of VGTR along with its Rossiya-24 rolling 24-hours news channel.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

He is expected to warn about the activity conducted by Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 , which the UK government accuses of conducting several attacks across the UK and Europe. McFadden will warn of Russia’s cyber capabilities that can target critical infrastructure, such as power grids, causing severe damage.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2024

“It added that it had identified over 85,000 cyber attacks which aimed to exploit system vulnerabilities.” ” Moscow has denied any attacks on the Romanian electoral systems. The annulment affects both the election date set by Government Decision no. ” states Reuters.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 31, 2023

Capita, an internationally acclaimed business processing & outsourcing firm, is experiencing a sudden halt in the operations of its IT services and suspects a cyber attack behind the disruption. The post NHS IT systems under disruption threat due to cyber attack on Capita appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

new cyberattack rating system ranks incidents from 1 to 5, but experts warn businesses must go beyond awareness and strengthen their defences.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

South Korea’s government blames pro-Russia threat actors for an intensification of cyberattacks on national sites after it decided to monitor North Korean troops in Ukraine. Seoul observed an increase in the attacks since North Korea sent troops to Russia. Some websites experienced temporary outages, but no major damage occurred.

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Lohrman on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Reports from cybersecurity companies in 2023 show mixed trends regarding the number of global data breaches, ransomware attacks, records affected and government costs. But one thing is clear: Cyber attack impacts steadily grow.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 21, 2023

The post List of victimized companies of MOVEit Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Cybersecurity Threats and Digital Warfare One of the most significant threats to national security in the modern era is cyber warfare. Cyber attacks can compromise critical infrastructure, financial systems, and sensitive government data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cyber attack on the logistics giant DP World caused significant disruptions in the operations of several major Australian ports. DP World is a global leader in logistics, providing comprehensive supply chain solutions to the world’s largest shipping lines, multinational companies and governments.

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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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The Hacker News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The China-linked Mustang Panda actor has been linked to a cyber attack targeting a Philippines government entity amid rising tensions between the two countries over the disputed South China Sea.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting government resources and critical infrastructure in Lithuania after the ban of Russian railway goods. Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting Lithuanian government resources and critical infrastructure – the recent ban on Russian railway goods has caused a new spike of hacktivist activity on the Dark Web.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

But the current news piece is related to a new hacking group that has been assigned the duty to target government servers of the Xi Jinping led nation. The post Cyber Attack news trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cyber threats have advanced into the industry, making security an important aspect of spreading awareness for both businesses and governments worldwide. For companies without the help of cybersecurity services, […] The post How Does Cybersecurity Services Prevent Businesses From Cyber Attacks?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A cyber attack hit the German air traffic control agency (DFS) disrupting its operations, experts attribute it to Russia-linked group APT28. A cyber attack targeted the German Air Traffic Control Agency (DFS), as reported by Spiegel and European Truth. ” DFS is working to minimise the consequences of the incident.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

(USA) has identified an increase in activity within hacktivist groups, they’re leveraging current geopolitical tensions between the Ukraine and Russia to perform cyber-attacks. The actors are positioning themselves as an elite cyber offensive group targeting NATO infrastructure and performing cyberespionage to steal sensitive data.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Russian threat actor known as RomCom has been linked to a new wave of cyber attacks aimed at Ukrainian government agencies and unknown Polish entities since at least late 2023.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2025

The EU sanctioned three members of Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 for cyberattacks on Estonia’s government agencies in 2020. “In 2020, cyber-attacks with a significant effect were carried out against Estonia. Those cyber-attacks concerned the storage of classified information.”

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 8, 2022

Many of our vulnerable systems might have even been previously breached by Western spies – that you for helping us lock out such cyber-attackers. 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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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Iraqi government networks have emerged as the target of an "elaborate" cyber attack campaign orchestrated by an Iran state-sponsored threat actor called OilRig. OilRig, also called APT34, Crambus, Cobalt Gypsy, GreenBug,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Sophos, with the help of other cybersecurity firms, government, and law enforcement agencies investigated the cyber attacks and attributed them multiple China-linked APT groups, such as Volt Typhoon , APT31 and APT41 / Winnti. The Chinese hackers have also ramped up the use of zero-day vulnerabilities in targeted devices.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Australian government announced sanctions for a member of the REvil ransomware group for the Medibank hack that occurred in 2022. The Australian government announced sanctions for Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov (aka GustaveDore, aiiis_ermak, blade_runner, JimJones), a Russian national who is a member of the REvil ransomware group.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 1, 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] Cybersecurity researchers have determined the records are authentic and current as of March 2020.

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