Cyber Attack
Tens of Thousands of government accounts hacked in Canada
Tens of 1000s of online government accounts belonging to Canada’s GCKey services were hacked in July this year. And that includes those belonging to Canada’s Revenue Services, The Treasury Board of Canada and 30 other federal departments. Reports are in that a joint investigation taken up by Canadian government along with the law enforcement agencies […]
Atleast 96% businesses in UK suffered one major cyber attack in 2019
According to a survey conducted by Forrester, at least 96% of businesses have suffered one major cyber attack in 2019. Also, the study commissioned by Tenable said that there has been a dramatic rise in business impacting cyber attacks in the last two years. The study also discovered that ransomware attacks have evolved into an […]
Cyber Attack on Israel water system
After experiencing an intense cyber attack in April this year, the Water Authority of Israel says that the country’s water management facilities suffered two more cyber incidents in June this year taking the total tally of attacks to 3 on an overall note. By god’s grace, the two new cyberattacks that took place last month […]
US tops the list of most targeted countries with Cyber Attacks
According to a recent research from Specops Software, United States is topping the list of nations which are super-vulnerable to cyber attacks; followed by UK, Germany, India, and Australia. And the highlight of the research is that the Trump led nation has fallen victim to over 156 separate cyber attacks in between the time frame […]
China to launch Major Cyber Attack on UK over Hong Kong
Britain is getting prepared to thwart a major cyber attack dubbed as ‘ Cyber 9/11’ from China as tensions between the two nations have intensified over issues like Corona Virus spread, Hong Kong and the proposal to ban Huawei’s 5G networks in UK. Security analysts suggest that ‘Cyber 9/11’ would be much more intense as […]
Donald Trump United States to be hit with a major DDoS Cyber Attack
Well, this is just a speculation that is going amok on Twitter and other social media platforms and has attracted the attention of a lot of officials from White House early this week. As soon as T-Mobile witnessed an outage in early June this year, many started to predict a potential Chinese Denial of service […]
Huawei shrugs off Cyber Attack claims by Australia
Chinese company Huawei has shrugged off the claims made by Prime Minister Scott Morrison that Australia’s critical infrastructure was being cyber attacked due to a ban imposed on Huawei from building a 5G network in the continent. Reacting to the interview given by Mr. Morrison for The Australian Financial Review, Huawei stated that the claims […]
Australia affected by a major State-funded Cyber Attack
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has made it official that all the government websites, public and private companies, and some high-end officials were being targeted by state-funded cyber attacks from the past few months. However, Morrison denied to name any state-funded actor or group in his statement and reiterated that no classified data was leaked […]
Amazon defends 2.3 Tbps high volume DDoS Cyber Attack in the history
Amazon Web Services has made it official that its servers which host several websites witnessed a high volume Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in February this year which might probably be the largest in the company history. AWS Shield, which defends the entire Amazon data centers from DDoS attacks has endorsed the news and […]
Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google
Wiggle, an online sports retailer has reacted to the complaints filed by its customers about a mysterious cyberattack that took place on its website early this week. As per its probe, customers are receiving emails for orders they haven’t placed and some have received them at their doorstep leaving them clueless on what was going […]
