Hacking
EU levies sanctions against Russian military intelligence officials over cyber attack
The EU says a significant amount of data was stolen in the attack, which compromised German Chancellor Angela Merkel's emails
IT services provider Sopra Steria suffers cyber attack
Ironically, the firm has a specialist unit dedicated to protecting clients' sensitive information
UK accuses Russian GRU military intelligence of conducting malicious cyber campaigns to sabotage Tokyo Olympics
British official have also disclosed details of Russian attempts to target 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in South Korea
Carnival Corp. ransomware attack affected three cruise lines
Social Security numbers, health data and other personal information may have been stolen in the attack
Hackney Borough Council suffers serious cyber attack
The Council is currently working with security experts to protect data
Previously unknown XDSpy hacker group has been stealing sensitive government data since 2011
It uses quite basic tools, but they are efficient enough to compromise the targets
Blackbaud ransomware hackers could access unencrypted banking data and login credentials
Blackboard had originally claimed such data was protected
Russian-speaking OldGremlin ransomware group targets Russian organisations
The group uses social engineering techniques to infect networks - but is only targetting Russian organisations, for now
US Justice Department indicts Iranian, Chinese and Malaysian hackers for targeting hundreds of individuals and organisations
Malaysian nationals allegedly helped Chinese hackers in their attempts to intrude into the networks of American firms
Cisco issues alert for zero-day DVMRP vulnerability being actively exploited by attackers
The bug in carrier-grade routers could allow a remote hacker to exhaust target device's process memory by sending crafted IGMP traffic
New Zealand Stock Exchange disrupted for third day following cyber attack
NZX says it is experiencing DDoS attacks originating abroad
US officers arrest Russian national for plotting to attack American firm
Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov allegedly offered an employee at the firm $1 million for help in installing malware onto the company network
Marriott faces UK class action-style lawsuit over massive data breach
Personal data of nearly seven million British guests was compromised in Marriott breach
Former Uber security officer charged with covering up 2016 data hack
Joseph Sullivan paid hackers $100,000 to keep silent about the hack
Lafayette City pays $45,000 ransom to cyber criminals
Attackers likely entered the network through a phishing scam or brute force attack
Intel's classified documents, including source codes, leaked online
An anonymous hacker claims to have breached Intel server earlier this year and stolen data from the system
Passwords for over 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers revealed on hacker forum
The attacker likely exploited CVE-2019-11510 security flaw to gain access to vulnerable systems
Florida minor charged for role in Twitter hack
The Florida State Attorney's office is handling the prosecution of a 17-year old boy for his role in the Twitter hack that affected accounts including those belonging to Bill Gates and Elon Musk
Twitter says hackers gained entry to its systems by calling employees on their phones
Spear-phishing attack enabled attackers to access 130 accounts on the social media platform
Blackbaud hack: National Trust confirms data breach
125 organisations in the UK have contacted the ICO in relation to data breach
Major hedge fund sees customers' personal data stolen by hackers
Data published online after service provider refused to pay ransom
Hackers are targeting organisations using a vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP software
A patch addressing the bug was released last month
At least seven British universities hit by ransomware attack on cloud provider
Cloud services provider Blackbaud paid a ransom after being promised stolen data would be destroyed
Chinese hackers launch new attacks to hit targets in India and Hong Kong, say researchers
A new variant of MgBot malware was used in latest attacks
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