Attack
United States should start launching massive Cyber Attacks against North Korea
Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher, a member of the US House of Representatives representing California’s 48th Congressional district is asking Donald Trump to launch a massive cyber attack against North Korea. In a press conference held yesterday, Mr. Dana Tyrone gave a media briefing on his recent meeting with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. When a news reporter […]
Cyber Attack makes Maersk incur $300 million loss!
The NotPetya ransomware attack which took place on container shipping firm AP Moller Maersk has left the company in a loss of $300 million. The attack which took place on June 27th, 2017 made the firm miss its business volumes by a large margin impacting its Q3 financial results. Soren Skou the CEO of Maersk […]
Cyber Attack on Scotland Parliament!
Email Accounts of many parliamentarians of Scotland were targeted by hackers very recently. And as per the sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders, the attack was similar to the one which took place on UK’s Westminster in June this year which compromised over 90 accounts of London’s renowned political leaders and their respective staff. As a […]
Ransomware news on LG Service Centers and WordPress sites!
Early this week, hackers targeted LG service center at Seoul with ransomware leading to the lock down of the database with a malicious code. Experts say that the malware could be a renewed version of Wannacry attack which took place in May this year. LG admitted the news reported by media sources as a fact […]
Cyber Attack on Robots can bring entire Robotics Industry to a halt!
Imagine a robot working as a kitchen chef is cyber attacked by hackers sitting remotely. Just think about if someone hacks the robot chef- its wielding knives and god know what happens next…. Dr. Nicholas Patterson, a cyber security lecturer at Deakin University said that a single or a couple of hacks could bring the […]
US Nuclear Power Stations cyber attacked by Russia!
FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed news reports that Russian hacker’s cyber attacked 5 nuclear power stations in the United States in May this year. And the affected networks include aging nuclear generating facility at Wolf Creek owned by Westar Energy, another two other facilities at Great Plains Energy and Kansas Electric […]
Ransomware hits servers of Pacific Alliance Medical Center!
A Los Angeles based healthcare firm made an official announcement today that its servers were hit with ransomware in June this year. The Medical center also added in its media briefing that its IT staff succeeded in removing the virus to decrypt the data. However, the spokesperson remains tight lipped on whether a ransom was […]
US 2016 Election Poll books were cyber attacked by Russia
A leaked NSA report says that Russian’s cyber attacked the election poll books of more than 20 counties of North Carolina in August last year. And what’s even more shocking in this entire attack saga is that the activity remained undetected until NSA was pressed into service by former US President Obama to look for […]
Cyber Attack leaves millions of mobile phone users without service!
A massive cyber attack which took place on several Venezuelan public and private utilities on Wednesday this week is said to have left more than 7 million mobile phone users without service. The hackers group named ‘The Binary Guardians’ claimed responsibility for the attacks and added that more such attacks will follow in near future […]
DDoS Cyber Attack on Ukraine’s Postal Department
Hackers launched a Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS) cyber attack on Ukraine’s postal department disrupting the online parcel tracking service from past two days. Authorities report that the attack started on early Monday and ended shortly after 18:00 local time on Tuesday. Sources from Ukrposhta report that the attack took place in two installments. One on […]
