Wikipedia was hit by a disruptive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) on Friday that took the digital encyclopedia offline in various countries including France, Germany, Italy, Poland and most of …
China Set Traps To Capture Dangerous NSA Cyberattack Weapons: New Report
A new report by Check Point indicates that Chinese state-backed hackers set deliberate traps to steal the NSA-linked cyber weapons that were leaked by the mysterious Shadow Brokers group in 2017. …
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Most citizens are against local governments paying ransomware attackers
Three in four (75%) US taxpayers are worried out ransomware threats to their private data and 80% are worried about how the threat impacts local governments, a new survey by Morning Consult and IBM …
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Crimeware Risk Underestimated, Chronicle Finds
A new report by Chronicle warns that crimeware, which is malicious software designed for performing or facilitating illegal online acts such as cyber theft, fraud and extortion, is an underestimated …
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40% of IT Pros Would Outlaw Ransomware Payments
A recent AT&T survey conducted among cybersecurity professionals shows that 40% of them believe victims of ransomware attacks should not be legally allowed to pay threat actors in order to get …
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Huawei accuses US of cyber-attacks and threats to staff
Huawei on Tuesday accused the US government of carrying out cyberattacks on the firm's networks and of unlawfully detaining and threatening its staff members. The Chinese tech giant did not provide …
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Hackers Ask for $5.3 Million Ransom, Turn Down $400k, Get Nothing
In July of this year, the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts suffered a ransomware attack that impacted 158 machines, representing 4% of the City's computers. The ransomware used to infect the devices …
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Revealed: How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran
The notorious Stuxnet malware attack that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities was deployed by "an inside mole recruited by Dutch intelligence agents at the behest of the CIA and the Israeli …
North Korea Denies Making $2bn from Cyber-Attacks
North Korea has denied a recent United Nations report stating that the country has used “widespread and increasingly sophisticated” cyberattacks to steal around $2 billion from financial institutions …
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Multicloud Businesses Face Higher Breach Risk
A new Nominet survey conducted among cybersecurity executives and professionals indicates that the use of multicloud environments creates more risks for organizations than the adoption of hybrid or …
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