Cyber Attack
Red Hen Restaurant becomes Cyber Attack target due to Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Virginia based Red Hen Restaurant was targeted by hackers on Wednesday this week as they wanted to hijack the sudden online popularity of the food business to be diverted to their own websites, which sell Viagra at discounted rates. We all know by now that the said restaurant became famous for refusing to serve to […]
British cyber experts hack ISIS Online Magazine to curb terror
British Cyber Experts is said to have hacked the online magazine named Rumiyah Publication last year in a bid to shut down online terror that gloated the Manchester bombing. News is out that the monthly publication has not been released since last year due to the impact. The publication which is being discussed is an […]
Ontario based CarePartners becomes Cyber Attack Victim
CarePartners, an Ontario based home care service provider has issued a statement that it has become a victim of a cyber attack. Going deep into the details, Cybersecurity Insiders has learned that a cyber attack was launched by some cyber actors last month, as a result of which patient data and employee info was compromised. […]
Liberty Insurance of South Africa becomes Cyber Attack Victim
South Africa based insurance company ‘Liberty’ has made it official that it became a victim of the cyber attack on Sunday. But the company’s CEO David Munro has assured that none of his firm’s customers have witnessed financial losses due to the possible ransomware attack. As per the details available to Cybersecurity Insiders, hackers capsized […]
UK ICO imposes £250k fine on Yahoo
The Information Commissioner Office (ICO) of UK has imposed a fine of £250,000 on Yahoo’s UK Division for failing to notify the 2014 Cyber Attack on time. Yahoo! Officials notified the world about the hack in September 2016 i.e after two years of a data breach which was strictly against UK’s data protection standards. In […]
MyHeritage genealogy website hack exposes sensitive info of 92m users
A cyber attack which took place in October 2017 is said to have exposed the sensitive information of more than 92 million users of MyHeritage, a popular genealogy website. Now, the major concern is that the hack is said to have exposed info on the DNA databases which could be used by bad guys or […]
News about Bitfinex and Ukraine NATO Cyber Attack
Bitfinex, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges has disclosed that it is experiencing a burst of traffic(DDoS Attack) on its trading database and so has decided to shut it down till mid-Tuesday. In an official statement released at 9:39 am ET on Tuesday, the officials of the Bitcoin exchange website said that their trading engine […]
Cyber Attack on Ticketfly
San Francisco based Ticketfly.com, an online ticket distribution service provider has made it official that its database was targeted by hackers on May 30, 2018 and so has been pulled down as a precautionary measure. Sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders say that the attack was launched by a hackers group known as IsHaKdZ. The group […]
Russia to launch Cyber Attack on the UK after 2018 FIFA World Cup
It was revealed in BBC Tonight that Russia is planning to launch a cyber attack on London after next month’s 2018 FIFA World Cup. The news source added that the attack will be severe and would bring the City of London to a standstill. The Minister who revealed this info to Nicholas Watt, Newsnight’s Political […]
Firms in Singapore have lost 6% of GDP Growth to Cyber Attacks
A study conducted by Microsoft commissioned Frost & Sullivan Company has discovered that firms operating in Singapore could have lost billions of dollars which is equal to 6% of GDP growth of the country. If figures are taken into account, the amount could mean a staggering $17.7 billion in USD in economic damage. Furthermore, the […]
