Attack
Cyber Attack on UBER leaks 57 million Customer and Driver details!
Hackers launched a Cyber Attack on UBER in October 2016 to steal data from more than 57 million customers and drivers. And what’s astonishing in this attack saga is that the IT team of UBER paid the hackers $100,000 to make the hackers delete the information from their servers and to conceal the massive breach […]
Sacramento Transit website hit by Ransomware Cyber Attack!
Last weekend, the Sacramento Regional Transit District website was targeted with Ransomware disrupting the schedules of bus and light rail passengers. The authorities immediately apologized for the inconvenience caused to the transit users via Twitter and said that no personal data was compromised in the attack. However, Wendy Williams, a spokesperson from the Transit department […]
Steps to nullify the effect of a Cyber Attack!
As enterprises around the world are marching towards digitalization, no organization is said to be immune to cyber-attacks. Remember, if hackers can target companies like Equifax, Yahoo, NSA and SEC they can also take a call at your organization anytime. So, the question is to be smartly prepared to tackle any and every situation after […]
NSA deeply shook by the leak of its Cyber Weapons Data
America’s largest and most secretive intelligence agency NSA is said to be in a disturbed state of mind these days. The reason, a hacking Group called Shadow Brokers is spilling secrets related to America’s National Security onto Dark Web on a regular note. Leon E Panetta, the Ex-defense secretary of CIA has admitted this news […]
Russia launched Cyber Attacks to steal Yahoo User data says, Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer, the former Chief Executive of Yahoo Inc, has publicly disclosed that Russia launched cyberattacks on at least one occasion to steal Yahoo User Data. Mrs. Mayer also rendered her apology to all the Yahoo users, as the data theft occurred during her tenure. Testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee, alongside the interim and […]
Ransomware hits the servers of the City of Spring Hill!
The City of Spring Hill has announced on an official note that their servers were hit by ransomware severely impacting their email and payments systems. And as a result of this attack, the authorities of the said government agency are unable to send and receive emails, and the digital payments made for utility services, business […]
UK Cryptocurrency Electroneum hit by Cyber Attack!
British Cryptocurrency startup Electroneum was hit by a cyber attack that has shut down all its investor accounts for several days. The said digital currency which can be mined from smartphones was due to be launched last Thursday. But the operators have now decided to postpone the launch of the Electroneum’s website and mobile app […]
Russia cyber attacked 195 Trump Web Addresses!
The Associated Press (AP), an American nonprofit news agency of New York has disclosed that more than 195 Trump Web addresses were cyber attacked by a group of hackers from Russia almost 4 years ago. And almost all of them were repaired by the trump’s web admin staff in the last week of October 2017. […]
Obama administration response to Russian Cyber Attack on US Elections 2016
All these days several media resources were seen accusing Trump administration of being silent on Russia’s election interference through cyber attacks. But did anyone think on what the former US President Barack Obama was doing at the time when the conspiracy to push the election results in favor of a specific US Presidential candidate was […]
Wealthy Mayfair Art dealers lose £1 million to Cyber Attack!
Almost nine of the wealthy Mayfair Art dealers have been hit by a cyber attack and investigative reports suggest that they might have lost £1 million to hackers. The Metropolitan police who have conducted the prima facie have confirmed that the galleries lost sums between £10k to £1 million. And as per the sources reporting […]
