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Rising Mobile Phishing Threats in Healthcare A recent report by Zimperium’s zLabs Global Mobile Threat has revealed a significant increase in mobile phishing attacks in 2024, with the healthcare sector emerging as a primary target. The report highlights that many attacks are directed at employees’ mobile devices, as staff often use their phones for both […]
France Olympics venue hit by a ransomware attack
While athletes, visitors, and referees at the Paris 2024 Olympics have been voicing concerns about the event’s organization, a new issue has surfaced: a cyberattack on one of the venues. Reports circulating on X and Facebook suggest that the Grand Palais Exhibition Hall, where sports like Fencing and Taekwondo are being held, has fallen victim […]
France Ransomware warning to Paris Olympics 2024 and Brazil ban on Meta AI data usage
France Cybersecurity Agency, ANSSI, has issued a stark warning regarding the upcoming Paris Olympics 2024, cautioning that the event’s IT infrastructure will face relentless cyber attacks, potentially including sophisticated ransomware variants. ANSSI disclosed that French government security teams have been diligently preparing for two years to counter such threats. Despite these efforts, there remains uncertainty […]
Cyber Attack on France government websites
Recently, hackers have shifted their attention to the government sector, with France’s government websites falling victim to sophisticated yet low-intensity cyber-attacks. A source from the office of France’s Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has suggested that these attacks on government servers could potentially be the work of a state-sponsored actor. However, further details are expected to […]
GIGN Elite Force helps lower ransom to a French Hospital
GIGN, an elite cyber force set up by French National Gendarmerie, has lowered the ransom demanded by hackers to free up data on the database of a Paris Hospital. CHSF Hospital Centre in Corbeil-Essonnes is the healthcare service provider in discussion whose servers storing imaging and patient data were locked up by encryption. As per […]
France slaps €210m fine on Facebook and Google
In a case related to cookie tracking of online users, France’s Data Privacy Watchdog slapped a hefty penalty of €210m for stopping companies from snooping on online users. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) said that penalty was split between two companies, with Google being slapped with €150m for making it difficult […]
Cyber Attack on France’s Visa website leads to data breach
A sophisticated cyber attack launched on the visa website of French government has led to a data breach where sensitive info related to applicants such as nationalities, birth dates and passport numbers were exposed to hackers. Highly placed sources from the foreign ministry of France stated that the attack took place on August 10th, 2021 […]
Ransomware attacks on Hospitals make France President allot €1 billion
After two of the hospitals were badly hit by ransomware attacks last week, the France President Emmanuel Macron took the pledge of allotting €1 billion to bolster the National Cybersecurity Strategy. Speaking briefly to the media after the announcement of the investment, Macron said that attacks on healthcare facilities have shown how vulnerable the infrastructure […]
Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google
Pfizer company that has produced a life saving vaccine to counter the spread of Corona Virus is back in news. The intelligence committee, funded by South Korea’s National Assembly, has revealed that a cyber attack launched on Pfizer at the end of last year was launched by North Korean hackers to steal the intelligence of […]
France discourages usage of Huawei 5G network equipment
In 2018, Trump Administration announced a ban on the use of Huawei products and services in the country’s federal agencies. Later at the end of 2018, the Donald Trump-led government came up with evidence that all those equipment supplied by Chinese Telecom Company to date was involved in espionage activities that includes sending of data […]
