Cyber Attack
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 […]
Telecom operators in North America hit by DDoS Cyber Attack
Telecom operators in North America were reportedly hit by a Distributed Denial of Services Cyberattack on Monday afternoon in what is believed to be touted as the largest cyber-attack launched on the telecom operators of America to date. The list of the companies offering cell phone services and which have been targeted included T-Mobile, Metro […]
District of Taylor to invest $20,000 to up its website’s Cybersecurity defenses
District of Taylor based in Detroit of US State of Michigan is all set to invest $20,000 to beef its official website as per the latest Cybersecurity standards. The decision was taken after the website fell prey to a cyberattack on May 13th of last month when hackers targeted the website users with a link-jacking […]
Minnesota has witnessed a surge in Cyber Attacks
Minnesota is witnessing a surge in cyberattacks as hackers are trying to induce political unrest and pressure on the law enforcement after the death of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020. But Minnesota’s Security Operations Center says that all the attacks launched on the government infrastructure of the state have been thwarted or neutralized after […]
Massive Iran Cyber Attack on Israeli Websites
Operations of over a thousand websites or even more could have been disrupted in Israel due to a coordinated cyberattack launched by Iranian hackers on Thursday morning. And the highlight of this attack was that the home page of most of these websites was replaced with the following messages posted in English and the Hebrew […]
European Parliament Data Breach due to Cyber Attack
A Cyber Attack launched on European Parliament is reported to have led to a serious data breach which includes information related to 1200 accounts of elected officials, staff, and 15,000 EU Affairs Professionals. And the highlight of the data breach is that it was not identified by the IT staff of the EU parliament. But […]
British Supercomputer ARCHER hit by a Cyber Attack
British Supercomputer ARCHER which is used for academic research by Universities operating in the UK has been hit by a cyber attack early this week forcing the admin to reset all user passwords and SSH keys. According to the details available to Cybersecurity Insiders, ARCHER fell victim to security exploitation which is now being investigated by […]
Cyber Attack stories trending on Google
1.) France based Tarkett flooring company has made it official that its servers suffered a serious cyber attack last week disrupting operations since April 29th, 2020. However, the company denied that there was any information leak in the incident and added that all precautionary measures have been taken to avoid such incidents in the future. […]
