Cyber Attack
US Fuel companies should report cyberattacks to the government
US Homeland Security has passed out an order that all fuel generation and pipeline companies operating in the country should report cyberattacks to the government as soon as they are impacted. The decision comes after Congress expressed its disappointment on Colonial Pipeline ransomware payment of $4.4m paid to DarkSide ransomware group that reportedly stole over […]
Microsoft offers playbook to businesses on Cyber Attack Defense
Many company leaders, especially those leading SMBs are having very little knowledge on how to defend their businesses from cyberattacks or how to respond to such situations. Therefore, Microsoft, a leading American technology company has offered a playbook to help firms raise their defense line against cyber attacks. Going forward, the playbook is a free […]
Cancer Treatment across United States halted by Cyber Attack
Cancer treatment services across the United States have taken a big hit as a cyber attack is said to have disrupted the software services operating in the High-tech radiation machines used to treat the malign disease. Elekta is the company in discussion that was hit by a cyber attack and as it supplies software meant […]
Chinese Military launches Cyber Attacks on Japanese Research firms
NHK, a Japan-based news resource, has published that a cyber attack launched by a hacking group linked to Chinese military targeted nearly 200 research firms and institutions from Japan. The report includes the fact that China was taking servers on rent in Japan in the name of IT development and was indulging in disruption tactics […]
Over 3.1 million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts
McAfee released an ‘MVISION’ Cloud User Report on Tuesday stating that the year 2020 witnessed over 3.1 million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts. And most of them were malware related followed by account hijackings and targeted attacks against vulnerabilities. As per the report, the industries that were majorly targeted include retail, technology, financial, public […]
SAP Applications under Cyber Attack
Hackers have set their eyes on mission critical SAP applications for stealing data and disrupting critical processes, mostly in manufacturing and operational sector. The highlight in the find is that the threat actors are exploiting a bug in the SAP application to deploy ransomware not before stealing data. Massachusetts based application security offering company Onapsis […]
Cyber attack on Norway Parliament and Russia Kremlin website down
Last year, in September Norway Parliament was hit by a cyber attack and the suspicion finger was raised at Russia as a press release from the spokesperson confirmed so in October 2020. After 6 months of attack, a fresh incident seems to have reportedly taken place on Monday this week as a parliament spokesperson says […]
Biden to launch cyber attack task force against adversaries
US President Joe Biden seems to have taken the SolarWinds cyber hack and the digital attack on Microsoft Exchange Server seriously, as the white house has hinted that the 47th president will be soon launching a task force to thwart cyber attacks from Adversaries. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have confirmed the news […]
China Cyber Attack on Indian Power Plant
As per a post published in The New York Times, China has targeted an Indian power plant last year that resulted in a big disruption for many in the business city of Mumbai, India. The post claims that the incident took place in 2020 and was a retaliation attack launched by China because of the […]
United States charges 3 North Koreans for Global Cyber Attacks
The United States Department of Justice has charged 3 North Korean for allegedly launching cyber attacks on many of the banking and cryptocurrency networks operating across the world. All the three have admitted the crime of committing computer fraud by indulging in wire transfers and bank transactions by fraudulent means in countries like Vietnam, Philippines, […]
