Hackers said they had taken down the websites of Bahrain’s international airport and state news agency on Tuesday to mark the 12-year anniversary of an Arab Spring uprising in the small Gulf country. A statement posted online by a group calling itself Al-Toufan, or “The Flood” in Arabic, claimed to have hacked the airport website, ..
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There have been some new developments in the case of the ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, including related to the encryption method used by the malware, victims, and the vulnerability exploited by the hackers. After the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the availability of an open source tool designed to help some victims of ..
Spain’s government on Wednesday pledged stronger action against cybercrime, saying it has come to account for about a fifth of all offenses registered in the country. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said police would be given additional staff, funding and resources to address online crime. He said reported cases of cybercrime were up 72% last year ..
Australian authorities this week announced the sentencing of a Sydney man for attempting to blackmail Optus customers using leaked data stolen during a September 2022 data breach at the wireless carrier. The Optus hack resulted in the theft of personal information belonging to 9.8 million customers, including names, birth dates, physical and email addresses, and ..
Nel 2021 e nel 2022 il 60% delle aziende prese di mira dai ransomware ha meno di 250 dipendenti. Lo rivela il nuovo report Ransomware Intelligence Global Report 2023, una ricerca che fornisce una panoramica completa degli attacchi ransomware registrati dalle organizzazioni mondiali nel 2021 e nel 2022. Le aeree geografiche A livello di aree geografiche, ..
Nell’attuale economia digitale, i dati rappresentano la nuova moneta, con un valore che cresce non solo per le organizzazioni, ma anche per i loro clienti e i cybercriminali. La digitalizzazione e la consumerizzazione in corso ricevono anche una maggiore attenzione da parte delle autorità di regolamentazione, che spingono per una più accentuata protezione della privacy. ..
PeopleConnect-owned background check services Instant Checkmate and TruthFinder have disclosed data breaches affecting a total of more than 20 million users. In individual data breach notices published on February 3, the organizations informed users that the incident was discovered after cybercriminals started sharing databases stolen from the two companies on underground forums. The databases – ..
About SecurityWeek Cyber Insights | At the end of 2022, SecurityWeek liaised with more than 300 cybersecurity experts from over 100 different organizations to gain insight into the security issues of today – and how these issues might evolve during 2023 and beyond. The result is more than a dozen features on subjects ranging from AI, quantum ..
European police arrested 42 suspects and seized guns, drugs and millions in cash, after cracking another encrypted online messaging service used by criminals, Dutch law enforcement said Friday. Police launched raids on 79 premises in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands following an investigation that started back in September 2020 and led to the shutting down ..
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) has canceled procedures and is diverting some patients following a cyberattack that forced it to take some IT systems offline. Founded in 1948, the not-for-profit community healthcare system provides acute and other types of healthcare services to a 21-county area in North Florida, South Georgia and South Alabama. On February 3, ..
