Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Government Belarusian Cyber-Partisans Claim New Year’s Weekend Attack Wiped Servers, Backups Mihir Bagwe (MihirBagwe) • January 2, 2024 The defaced BelTA website before hacktivists took it down over the weekend (Image: Wayback Machine, Internet Archive) Over the New Year’s holiday weekend, Belarusian hacktivists […]
Environmental Science and The Criminal Minds man died on NYE Spatts, a veteran producer of hardcore, breakbeat and UK hip-hop, died unexpectedly on New Year’s Eve after suffering a brain hemorrhage. Milton Keynes-based Spatts – real name Ian Allen – spent more than 30 years making music. He is best known as the main writer […]
By the end of 2024, it is plausible that AI systems will be capable of autonomously managing cyber security across an enterprise’s entire digital landscape
Gallery Systems, a museum software provider, has revealed that it experienced a ransomware attack last week, leading to ongoing IT outages. The attack caused the company to take systems offline to prevent further encryption.
Ransomware attacks in the US reached record levels in 2023, targeting hospitals, schools, government organizations, and private-sector businesses, costing victims an average of $1.5 million to rectify.
The ALPHV ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack on Transformative Healthcare in late April 2023 and exported a terabyte of data, including medical and paramedic reports. Fallon Ambulance Services, a subsidiary of Transformative Healthcare and now-defunct Ambulance Service, covering the greater Boston area in the United States, was targeted by a ransomware attack, exposing […]
Finance & Banking , Governance & Risk Management , Industry Specific 109 Banks to Participate in Simulated Cyberattacks to Assess Cyber Resiliency Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • January 2, 2024 Image: Shutterstock The European Central Bank beginning this month will conduct cyber stress tests on banks to determine their resilience against cyberattacks. The agency […]
The stolen funds are believed to be linked to North Korean hacking groups, such as Lazarus, who use cryptocurrency cyberattacks to bypass international sanctions and finance their weapons development program.
As technology adoption has shifted to be employee-led, just in time, and from any location or device, IT and security teams have found themselves contending with an ever-sprawling SaaS attack surface, much of which is often unknown or unmanaged. This greatly increases the risk of identity-based threats, and according to a recent report from CrowdStrike, […]