Reuters filed an exclusive report on Monday citing three “senior Western security officials” who blamed a recent wave of cyberattacks in Europe and the Middle East on “hackers acting in the interests of the Turkish government.”
New Orleans city computer went offline on Sunday after suffering a cyberattack. City employees were instructed to shut down their computers to prevent further data breaches as IT security personnel worked to regain control of the system. The city has reportedly declared a state of emergency over the matter.
The Post Millennial, a conservative news and commentary website based in Canada, says it has been the victim of a cyberattack. The site’s editor pointed out the attack came less than 24 hours after the site published an exclusive article about feminist Zoe Quinn.
The government of Iran on Monday insisted a reported U.S. cyberattack carried out in retaliation for Iran shooting down an American drone was completely ineffective. “They try hard, but have not carried out a successful attack,” claimed information and technology minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi.
Encrypted messaging platform Telegram revealed a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyberattack targeting it for the past few days, perhaps not coincidentally beginning at the same time as the latest protest in Hong Kong against an extradition law favored by mainland China.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison informed his parliament on Monday that a “sophisticated state actor” attacked their computer system in an apparently unsuccessful attempt to harvest information.
A cyberattack at a Los Angeles newspaper printing plant halted the delivery of a number of popular newspapers, Saturday, including the Los Angeles Times, and west coast editions of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
Iranian officials say the country is being targeted by a cyberattack. Telecommunication Minister Mohammad Javad Azeri Jahromi and his deputy, Hamid Fatahi, both tweeted about the attack on Monday — the same day U.S. sanctions on the country once lifted by the nuclear deal resumed.
The Justice Department has charged a computer programmer working on behalf of the North Korean government with the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, along with the massive WannaCry ransomware attack last year and an $81 million theft from a bank in Bangladesh.
Iran has been developing the necessary resources for a cyberweapons attack against the United States and European infrastructure, experts said this week at the Aspen Security Forum, according to an NBC News report Friday.
According to a Wall Street Journal report on Friday, North Korea significantly escalated the pace of its cyberattacks against South Korea in April, even as dictator Kim Jong-un held a historic summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and planned for a summit meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
911 call centers are becoming increasingly vulnerable to hackers, who shut down the centers’ systems before demanding a ransom, according to a report.
The heads of six major intelligence organizations including the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA have warned Americans not to use Huawei and ZTE phones
The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics opening ceremony was hit with a cyberattack last week, however the attacker has yet to be revealed.
TEL AVIV – Blueprints for submarines that were being built in Germany for the IDF were hacked in a cyberattack with links to Iran, a former Knesset member claimed Wednesday.
A North Carolina judge has sentenced a former felon to 37 months in jail after the man threatened a company with a cyberattack if they did not fire one of their employees and hire him.
Uber reportedly concealed a cyberattack that saw the personal data of 57 million people stolen by hackers who the company paid off to keep quiet about the incident.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) “does not expect” the recent Equifax data breaches to have a “major effect” because they believe a “significant” number of victims already had their personal information stolen.
“Every Wi-Fi connection” is reportedly vulnerable to a security flaw that allows hackers to snoop on your internet traffic.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has suspended a contract previously awarded to Equifax following an alleged second data breach, according to a report.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has awarded Equifax a $7.25 million fraud-prevention contract following the company’s massive security breach which affected over 140 million consumers.
Equifax accidentally encouraged people to use the wrong website to check if their personal information was included in a massive security breach on numerous occasions.
The U.S. Justice Department has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into the sale of Equifax stock by high-ranking executives just days before the company revealed they had been the subject of a massive data breach.
An online chatbot which was originally created to help users overturn parking tickets could be used by those affected by the Equifax data breach to help sue the company for up to $25,000.
Equifax has removed a clause from the Terms of Use section of the website set up to help victims of the company’s data breach that previously barred victims from suing Equifax if they used the company’s services.
PARIS (AP) — A new, highly virulent strain of malicious software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine, where it badly hobbled much of the government and private sector on the eve of a holiday celebrating a post-Soviet constitution.
PARIS (AP) — A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard.
LONDON (AP) — British officials are investigating a cyberattack on the country’s Parliament after discovering “unauthorized attempts to access parliamentary user accounts.”
A cybersecurity firm has claimed that another, bigger cyber attack is on the way, adding that the next incident could “dwarf” the last.
The attack also reportedly shut down an industry-wide database known as inEntertainment, slowing the work of agencies across Hollywood.
A cyber attack on the Sundance Film Festival that forced the closure of the festival’s box office on Saturday is now being reviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a report.
Readers were unable to access the pioneering powerhouse news website Drudge Report for an hour and a half on Thursday, due to what site founder Matt Drudge says was a denial-of-service attack.
Al-Qaeda has explored the critical infrastructure in the U.S., such as electric power, telephone communications, and water supplies in search of vulnerabilities to carry out “electronic jihad,” or cyberterrorism, warns the the House Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.
Moscow (AFP) – A massive cyberattack has hit at least five of Russia’s largest banks, Moscow-based internet security giant Kaspersky said Thursday.
A massive hacker attack on Vietnam’s airports two weeks ago, which forced many airlines to temporarily revert to manual check-ins, has been blamed on a hacker group linked to the Chinese government.
Michael Isikoff at Yahoo writes that Hillary Clinton’s campaign declined a request from the FBI to provide information on potential cyberattacks.
South Korea says North Korea has been trying to hack into their smartphones and has also conducted cyberattacks against the South Korean railway transit system.
The IRS had been warned of vulnerabilities in their computer system long before the taxing agency admitted this week that it had been hacked and may have lost the data of up to 100,000 American taxpayers.
The UK Mirror reports a hacking crossfire between Anonymous Protection—a branch of famed hacker collective Anonymous—and the Lizard Squad, which has lately been renting itself out as a band of cyber-attack mercenaries, while threatening to release nude photos of singer Taylor Swift in its spare time.
The United States placed new sanctions on North Korea Friday in retaliation for what it claims is the country’s involvement in the November 24 cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment.
