Page 6 - Cyberattacks

Global cos, govt agencies among 200 victims of suspected Russian hacking

Of the roughly 18,000 SolarWinds customers that received the infected update, more than 1,000 experienced the malicious code ping a so-called second stage "command and control"

Mike Pompeo says Russia 'pretty clear' behind cyberattack on US

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Russia was pretty clearly behind the gravest cyberattack against the United States on record

Cyberattack on US govt agencies still underway: FBI, intelligence agencies

The cyberattack on the US government agencies is still a developing situation, a joint statement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said

US agencies, companies secure networks after hack, extent of damage unclear

US government agencies and private companies rushed to secure their computer networks after disclosure of a sophisticated cyber-espionage intrusion suspected of being carried out by Russian hackers

Russian hackers broke into treasury, commerce dept, US officials suspect

Officials said a hunt was on to determine if other parts of the government had been affected by what looked to be one of the most sophisticated, and perhaps among the largest, attacks

Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine data hacked from European Medicines Agency

German company BioNTech and US pharmaceutical company Pfizer say data on their coronavirus vaccine were unlawfully accessed during a cyberattack on the servers of the European Medicines Agency

Landscape of cyberattacks to change in coming months: Kaspersky report

According to Kaspersky, the top targets for APT were governments, and the most significant threat actor was Lazarus

As cyberattacks rise, cyber insurance a small price to pay for protection

Annual premiums do not exceed what you readily shell out for an OTT subscription

BigBasket faces potential data breach; details of 20 mn users put on sale

Names, email IDs, password hashes, contact numbers, addresses of users put on sale on dark web, claims cyberintelligence firm Cyble

Investigative documentary says 2016 US election was exposed to fraud

An HBO investigative television documentary Kill Chain graphically portrayed what happened in the 2016 presidential contest and how the electoral system could easily be hacked

Ransomware attacks surge 40% to 199.7 million globally in Q3: Report

While overall malware volume declined for the third quarter, ransomware attacks globally surged 40 per cent to reach 199.7 million hits in the third quarter of this year, according to SonicWall

Cyberattacks hit over 1,000 schools, colleges between June-Sept globally

Spear phishing attacks hit the education sector hard between June and September, affecting more than 1,000 schools, colleges, and universities, according to a global report

Russia behind most nation-state cyberattacks on consumers: Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. has issued 13,000 alerts about nation-state hacking attempts to its customers in the last two years,

Hackers accessed DMs of 36 of 130 users attacked last week, says Twitter

Attackers were able to view email addresses and phone numbers of some Twitter users, says company

Obscure Indian cyber firm BellTroX spied on politicians, investors globally

New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services targeted government officials in Europe, gambling tycoons in the Bahamas, and well-known investors in the US

Unacademy data hacked, names and passwords put on sale: Security firm

Unacademy says its internal investigation had found e-mail data of around 11 million users was compromised.

Coronavirus: BSE cautions market intermediaries against cyber attacks

Many organisations have switched to work-from-home, due to outbreak of the pandemic, with employees using mobile phones, tabs and personal laptops in order to maintain business continuity

Algo rhythm: Activity in cyberspace since the revocation of J&K autonomy

According to a report, India witnessed heightened activities by these adversaries post the revocation of Article 370 of the Constitution by the Indian govt in August last year

Russia hacked Ukrainian gas firm at center of Trump's impeachment

Russia's GRU spy agency launched a "phishing" attack in November to access the email of Burisma Holdings employees, California cyber firm Area 1 Security said in a report

Companies likely to extensively use AI to deal with cyberattacks: Study

The number of endpoints (including mobile devices) continues to rise and so does the business data being processed/stored in them