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Ransomware news trending for the day
INTERPOL, a globally recognized crime-fighting agency has teamed up with Cybersecurity firm to declare the WannaCry 3rd anniversary as the ‘Anti-Ransomware Day’. On May 12th, 2017, hackers suspected to be from North Korea launched a ransomware attack on the hospital networks of NHS and across the world disrupting operations of more than 300,000 computers worldwide. […]
Google trending Cyber Attack news headlines
Greenville Water Utility of South Carolina reportedly became a recent victim of a cyber attack where hackers were either trying to lock down the database through malware or were interested in transmitting the data and then selling the info on the dark web. Spokeswoman Emerald Clark said that the disruption could have impacted over 500,000 […]
Cyber attack headlines trending on Google
Finally what we did not expect is happening as a British court has ordered Bitfinex to freeze a Bitcoins payments as it was leading to the wallets of those distributing ransomware. Yes, you have read it right! As most of the cryptocurrency variants can easily be tracked now, an England and Wales High Court has […]
Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google
1.) Australia based Monash IVF Group has disclosed that it has been subjected to a cyber attack where email ids and some content info were stolen by hackers as the bad guys managed to break into the database containing confidential information. News is out that the stolen content and email ids can be used by […]
Cyber Attack news trending now on Google
1.) Paying a ransom to hackers seems to be picking up as a trend these days as another city from Florida is alleged to have bowed down to the demands of hackers on a recent note. On Tuesday this week, the news was out that the Lake City of Florida has paid hackers up to […]
Ransomware attack on SIX healthcare providers
In the past week, over 5 US-based healthcare services providers have reported ransomware attacks on their digital assets and the details of the incidents are as follows- 1) First, it was Ohio based N.E.O Urology services provider which reported about a ransomware attack on its digital assets. Now the news is out that the IT […]
Google trending Cyber Attack news for the day
1.) In the first of the Cyber Attack news which is trending on Google, TalkTalk hacker who blackmailed the chief executive officer of the company Dido Harding has been jailed for 4 full years. Daniel Kelley, from South Wales, was a black hat hacker who failed in GCSE grades and wanted to achieve something thrilling […]
Norsk Hydro ransomware attack costs $52 million
Norway based aluminum manufacturer Norsk Hydro has released a press statement today which says that the company could have incurred $52 million or 450 million Norwegian crowns in the 1st quarter. Sources say that the malware attack has made the Oslo based firm to postpone its Q1 earnings update to June 5th this year as […]
Cybersecurity news trending on Google
1.) Cloud Storage vendor Dropbox suffered a business drawback last week when security researchers participating at the ‘HackerOne’ bug hunt program in Singapore discovered over 264 vulnerabilities on its data storage platform. According to those familiar with the news from the company, the data storage firm had already been alerted by its internal engineers about […]
Cyber Attack news which is trending now on Google
1.) Dubai British School based in Jumeirah Park, Gulf claims that it became a victim to a cyber attack which compromised the email database of the educational institute for a few hours of time last week. But the British Educational Institute also added in its statement that all necessary action has been taken to preserve […]
