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Russia launched cyber attacks on Foreign Defense Bodies says Latvia
Latvia, a country in the European Union has openly confessed that Russia has carried out cyberattacks on its Foreign and Defense apparatus and other state institutions. The statement was given by Latvian Intelligence Agency yesterday and added that Russia’s Military intelligence was consistently trying to access the nation’s info by e-mail phishing attacks against the […]
UK plans to blackout Russia via Cyber Attack
Britain is reportedly planning to blackout Russia if the latter tends to execute its plan of launching a missile attack at the UK’s military base which is said to be ill-equipped to respond to such attacks as of now. The exercise to blackout Moscow is said to be the biggest war game of this decade […]
Russia hacked MH17 investigation in Malaysia
The Dutch government has disclosed yesterday that the laptop used by expelled spies belonging to Russia intelligence contained evidence that the device was used to hack the investigation of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 which is suspected to have crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2014. Sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders say that the laptop used […]
Top Two Cyber Attack stories for this day
The government of Netherlands has accused Russian intelligence of cyber attacking the database related to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW). Officials say that the spying activity was identified on April 13th this year and 4 Russian agents were expelled from the country by Ank Bijleveld Schouten- the Dutch Minister of Defense. Early […]
Britain and Australia blame Russian GRU for Cyber Attacks
Perhaps its time countries like Britain, the US and Australia should stop blaming their cyber adversaries and instead start acting on how to make their country’s cyber infrastructure immune to cyber attacks. That’s because the populace of the respective countries is no more interested in who is launching the attacks. But are more interested in […]
Taiwan accuses China, Russia, and North Korea of launching Cyber Attacks
Taiwan, a small island near to the borders of China and Japan says that countries like China, Russia, and North Korea are using the nation as a testing mule for an onslaught of cyber attacks. The leaders of the nation say that China and Russia are using it as a testing ground before targeting the […]
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 […]
US President to impose mandatory sanctions on Critical Cyber Threat Actors
US President Donald Trump is all set to impose mandatory sanctions on Critical Cyber Threat Actors soon. Yes, the above-stated words will turn into a reality if a new bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate receives an endorsement from the Trump & administration. Sens. Cory Gardner and Chris Coons have introduced the bill “The Cyber […]
DNC Cyber Attack allegations on Russia were fake
The Democratic National Committee released a statement a couple of hours ago saying the attempted cyber attack by Russia on party candidates was fake. And was, in fact, a simulated phishing test attempted by white hat security analysts hired by Michigan Democratic Party. Therefore, the statement which was released by DNC on Tuesday of a […]
Donald Trump reverses the Barack Obama era Cyber Attack rules
US President Donald Trump has decided to reverse the cyber attack rules of the Obama era. A decision on this was taken last month and on Wednesday this week, an order reversing the rules was signed by the 45th president. Known as Presidential Policy Directive 20, the order drafted and implemented during the era of […]
