Ransomware Attack
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 […]
Ransomware attack on Telangana and Andhra Pradesh power utilities
1.) A ransomware attack on the websites of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh power utilities is said to have forced the related officials to pull their respective websites offline. The restoration of the data is going on full swing and most of the systems might get restored by the day end of Friday. News is out […]
Google Trending news related to Cyber Attacks
1.) From now on, the government of Maryland has decided to draw stringent penalties against ransomware developers and spreaders with state lawmakers already planning to transform the bill into law by March second week this year. Thus, those convicted of ransomware crimes may face tougher penalties in coming weeks which include those who plotted ransomware […]
Google trending Ransomware and Cyber Attack news of the day
1.) Olympia Financial Group of Canada has claimed that its IT Infrastructure has been encrypted by ransomware and the hackers are demanding a huge amount of ransom in cryptocurrency to decrypt the data. The IT department of Olympia says that the attack took place on Feb 2nd this year and the ransomware variant is under […]
Cyber Attack news for the day
Bristol Airport has issued an official statement a few hours ago saying that a cyber attack caused the information screens to go out of service on both Friday and Saturday. As a result of this glitch, the airport witnessed a meltdown for 3 full days making holidaymakers read their flight departure times off whiteboards spread […]
News about Wannacry hitting Australian Computers and Cyber Attack on Air Canada
Malwarebytes latest investigation has discovered that the Wannacry Ransomware which disrupted more than 250,000 computers worldwide last year has again hit thousands of systems in Australia and millions across the world in 2018. According to the Cybersecurity firm, more than 3,388 Wannacry cases have been detected till date since Jan this year and the number […]
Atlanta Ransomware attack could cost city taxpayers $17 million
In March 2018, the government servers in the city of Atlanta were targeted by ransomware which led to the disruption of almost all the government’s digital services and data loss in some departments which includes the water utility and the police surveillance footage storage systems. According to a confidential audit report prepared by the Atlanta […]
Cyber Attack news for this week
UK’s largest electronics retailer Dixons Carphone has made an official announcement on Tuesday that around 10 million records containing personal data of its customers could have been obtained in a cyber attack in 2017- which is much higher than the earlier estimates. However, the UK based company which holds a retail network clarified that the […]
Cyber Attack on Boys Town Hospital and Blue Springs Family Care
A cyber attack on the database of Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska is said to have potentially compromised more than 105,309 patient medical records in May this year. After investigating the crisis, a spokesperson from Boys Town Healthcare chose to update the cyber incident to the press on Thursday this week. As […]
Cyber Attack on COSCO
COSCO US, a shipping agency having its headquarters in Shanghai, China is reported to have been hit by a cyber attack on Tuesday this week. The company has issued a press statement to its customers which confirmed an attack on its digital assets affecting the ocean water carrier’s communication in the American region only. COSCO […]
