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On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller reacted to Chinese state-backed hackers targeting infrastructure in the U.S. by stating that the cyberattack “heightens the importance of us being able to engage openly and honestly

The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions against four Iranian companies and one individual involved in designing, producing, and shipping unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Russia for use against Ukraine.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Wednesday that his government’s National Cyber Security Center has determined hackers linked to the Iranian regime were “almost certainly” behind a massive cyberattack against the Albanian government in July. Albania severed diplomatic ties with Iran over the incident, enraging Tehran.

A cyberattack temporarily knocked out public and private websites in Norway in the past 24 hours, Norwegian authorities said Wednesday.

The alleged hacking of the ProtonMail accounts of Brexit supporters including a former spy chief and leading Members of Parliament (MPs) was the work of Russian hackers, an official from ProtonMail competitor Google has claimed.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) criticized President Joe Biden for focusing on telling Americans to guard against Russian cyberattacks rather than telling Russia there will be consequences if

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it restarted all of its domestic plants in Japan following a two-day-long production halt caused by a cyberattack on the computer system of a Toyota parts supplier, Kyodo News reported.

Iranian hackers recently attempted to breach over 250 “Microsoft Office 365” accounts belonging to U.S. and Israeli government-linked defense tech firms, as well as companies tied to Persian Gulf ports of entry and Middle East-based maritime shipping, Microsoft reported Monday.

In 2019 the city of Borger, Texas, dealt with one of the earliest ransomware attacks in a recent series of Russia-based hacks. Although some services were disrupted, the town had most of its files backed up and essential services remained up. The town did not pay the $2.5 million ransom demanded by the hackers.

Saudi Aramco confirmed on Wednesday that a “limited amount” of its company data held by third-party contractors was recently leaked amid reports that an unidentified extortionist is holding a terabyte of the Saudi Arabian oil giant’s data hostage and demanding a $50 million ransom for its deletion, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

Former leader of the British Conservative Party Sir Iain Duncan Smith claimed that he is being directly threatened by Communist China.

President Joe Biden’s White House on Monday publicly identified China as responsible for a series of cyberattacks across the world but did not announce any retaliatory actions.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) argued President Joe Biden needs to hit Russia with a “serious” retaliatory cyberattack and reimpose the sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Kennedy said, “You mentioned

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) argued the U.S. needs “to move more swiftly,” in the cyber realm and that President Joe Biden “is waiting for the appropriate moment” to respond to recent cyberattacks

The United States government is said to have recovered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency paid as a ransom to the hackers believed to be behind the cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline Co., the largest pipeline system for oil products in the country.

Appearing Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned that the nation’s adversaries possess the capabilities of shutting down the power grid in the United States.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo predicted that ransomware attacks were “here to stay.”

On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Fast Money Halftime Report,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco stated that the government doesn’t know whether meat producer JBS paid ransom in response to a cyberattack against the company. CNBC Senior Washington Correspondent Eamon Javers

White House press secretary Jen Psaki discussed the rise in cyberattacks during the daily briefing at the White House. The White House on Wednesday feigned ignorance as to why attacks from criminal entities in Russia increased after President Joe Biden took office.

The Massachusetts Steamship Authority was hit by a cyberattack on Wednesday, which took its website offline and caused delays for ferry travelers.

A major cyberattack has reportedly crippled the world’s largest meat processing company, JBS. The company reports an “organized cybersecurity attack” has severely hampered its operations in the U.S. and Australia.

Cyprus has said that Turkish hackers attacked its parliament’s website last month. The Cypriot Digital Security Authority investigated the cyber attack, which took place on April 5th, and found that the source came from internet protocol (IP) addresses linked to a Turkish hacker group.

GasBuddy, an app that helps users to find the best availability and prices on fuel, has topped Apple’s App Store this week amidst the gas shortage caused by the recent ransomware cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline. The app has proved so popular that its servers have experienced outages this week.

On Monday’s broadcast of “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said that no group in Russia could have conducted the cyberattack against the Colonial Pipeline “without the tacit or explicit knowledge of Vladimir Putin’s government.” Cotton said, “First off, no

A Georgia-based company that operates the most extensive fuel pipeline system in the U.S. has shut down its activities due to a cyberattack.

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) allegedly ordered a hacker group to conduct cyberattacks on roughly 200 Japanese research institutions, defense firms, and companies from 2016-2017, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported on Tuesday.

On Thursday, the U.S. intelligence and security launched a “call to action” to address supply chain threats from foreign powers.

During a press conference on Monday, Attorney General Bill Barr agreed with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s assessment that the cyberattack on the federal government was carried out by the Russians and that the culprit in the attack “certainly appears

Attorney General William Barr, who is stepping down, stated during his final press conference Monday that he sees “no reason” to appoint a special counsel to investigate alleged fraud in the 2020 presidential election or the ongoing investigation into the taxes of President-elect Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

On Friday’s “Mark Levin Show,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commented on the cyberattack on the federal government and said that “we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity.”

On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) stated that he believes the cyberattack on the federal government will make the OPM hack “pale in comparison” and “is the biggest story of the year, probably,

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) stated that the cyberattack on the federal government is “bad” and we don’t know how bad it was. He also stated

Universal Health Services, a major hospital system with over 400 locations, faced a cyberattack over the weekend that shut down its internal records system. Doctors and nurses have been forced to use paper and pen to record patient records since the attack began. Cybersecurity analysts believe that the attack could be the largest medical cyberattack in the nation’s history.

The Michigan state bar exam, which was offered online this year due to concerns about the ongoing pandemic, crashed due to a “sophisticated” cyberattack. Some exam-takers now want the software vendor to prove that the hackers were not able to access private user data.

Cloudflare, a web infrastructure provider and content delivery network, is reportedly suffering outages resulting in major websites crashing across the internet.

Indian police officials said on Tuesday they have charted “at least 40,300 cyber attacks” in the past four to five days against infrastructure and banking targets. The bulk of these attacks allegedly originated in China, which currently has very tense relations with India after a deadly clash along the disputed border in the Himalayas.