Attack
Russia launches cyber attack on Ukraine President website
Ukraine imposed economic restrictions on Russia’s largest internet group at the end of last week. And as retaliation to this gesture, Russia’s state-funded hackers launched a cyber-attack on Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko’s website on late Tuesday. The repercussions of the attack are yet to be known. The decision to impose restrictions on Russia’s Yandex led […]
A synopsis of this week’s Cyber Attack news!
Last Friday, the entire world was left astonished when all news headlines stated that a global cyber attack was launched by a group of hackers from North Korea affecting over 200,000 computers in over 150 nations. The ransomware attack targeted computers and digital networks operating in Russia, China, Japan, UK, France, US and Asia and […]
A synopsis of WannaCry ransomware attack launched on 150 countries
By now, almost the whole world is aware of the fact that hackers launched a ransomware attack last weekend targeting organizations in more than 150 countries. Though not much is known about the group which indulged in this activity, security experts confirmed that the attack was launched using the espionage tools developed by United States […]
Cyber Attack on Cloud Computing Company makes France news websites go dark
A Cyber Attack launched by some state-sponsored hackers on a Portland-based Cloud Computing Company named Cedexis resulted in a bunch of news websites going dark. And as per Bloomberg, the knocked off news sites were most popular in France and had a very good reader base and bounce rate. The hack took place at 7 […]
US FCC website becomes a victim of DDoS Cyber Attack
The Federal Communications Commission of United States has made it official that its website became a victim of a cyber attack on late Sunday. As the attack came shortly after noted comedian John Oliver urged viewers of his HBO Show to file comments on Net Neutrality Rules, FCC thought earlier thought that its website crash […]
Cyber Attack on WhatsApp leads to a 2-hour major outage
WhatsApp which is a Facebook-owned business subsidiary was out from service for a couple of hours on Wednesday. And as per our sources, the outage could have been caused by a possible cyber attack. The service was down from 00:20 GMT+3 and was restored at around 2:20 GMT+3. Although, Facebook choose to remain silent on […]
Hackers launch cyber attacks on Gmail Accounts
Just a couple of hours ago Internet Juggernaut Google has issued a warning against a notorious cyber attack targeting Gmail Accounts. The web services giant said that a malicious email campaign was spreading through the internet like wildfire in the disguise of an invitation to Google Doc and was mainly targeting school staff and students […]
Vermont Law School beefs up its digital defense against all Cyber Threats
Authorities at the Vermont Law School have spent several weeks and lots of financial resources in order to beef up their digital defense systems against all cyber threats. A cyber attack launched on its database on March 17 of this year, made the law school officials to take up the said measures as a part […]
Ransomware related Cyber Attacks are on rising, says Verizon
Ransomware related cyber attacks where cyber crooks induce encrypting malware into a network or database and then ask a ransom to decrypt the files are on the rise says a new study made by Verizon. The report says that the attacks increased by 50 percent in 2016 and might double up in next couple of […]
Cyber Attack makes Trinity College Dublin lose 1 million pounds
Hackers who launched a cyber attack on Trinity College Dublin succeeded in stealing away 1 million pounds from the Foundation fund. But the good news is that more than half of the money has been recovered by the law enforcement agencies of UK with the support and coordination of police officials from the United States. […]
