A community school in Michigan, the United States, has become the latest target of ransomware. Hackers controlled the school’s computer system and demanded $10,000 in Bitcoin will be released from control. District officials at...
A large international currency exchange company confirmed that it was attacked by malware on December 31 and suspended some services. It is reported that the London-based company operates more than 1,500 stores worldwide. The...
More than 50 phishing websites currently under the control of the Thallium (also known as APT37) were taken over by Microsoft Security. The APT37 is a hacker organization from North Korea that uses various...
A closed-circuit surveillance television system in a prison in Chumphon, Thailand was hacked and then live broadcasted on YouTube. Official details of the hacking have not been released, but local police said it was...
Recently, PreciseSecurity investigated and researched active hacker attacks in 2019 and ranked them. It was found that cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) became the hackers’ favorite attack vector globally in 2019. It is understood that...
Recently, RavnAir of Alaska, United States announced that the company’s computer network suffered a malicious attack, which caused it to cancel at least six flights during the peak travel period. A spokesman for the...
More and more hacking organizations are now targeting large enterprises and government agencies. For hackers, this has higher potential benefits than infecting home users. Many municipal networks have been temporarily closed due to ransomware...
Fox-IT, a Dutch security company, reported that the Chinese hacker group APT20 was found to be able to bypass two-step verification in a recent attack. The organization’s main targets are government agencies and managed...
The U.S. Department of Justice reports that the theft of hackers that target U.S. corporate and financial institutions have been resolved, and three of them have been jailed and sentenced. The case occurred between...
According to data from the 2019 GLOBAL SECURITY ATTITUDE SURVEY released by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, the total number of organizations that compromise hackers to pay the ransom after a supply chain attack has grown...
According to NexusGuard’s third-quarter 2019 DDoS report, DNS amplification attacks continue to dominate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, while mobile device traffic continues to rise. Compared to the same period last year, the...
Recently, a British man, Nathan Wyatt, was extradited to the United States on charges of blackmailing US companies. The man was allegedly a member of the well-known hacker group The Dark Overlord (TDO) and...
The Lithuanian named Rimasauskas was sentenced to five years in prison after his extradition to the United States. The main crimes committed by the Lithuanian were commercial fraud and money laundering. Many people who...
LifeLabs is a leading medical diagnostic and testing service provider based in Canada. Today the company announced a ransom payment to hackers to redeem data and information stolen from a security breach last month....
Recently, Hackensack Meridian Health, the largest hospital in New Jersey, announced that a ransomware attack disrupted its network and IT staff decided to decrypt the files by paying the ransom. Hackensack Meridian operates 17...
Visa highlighted in a security alert the ongoing POS system attacks and data theft at gas station networks. Visa disclosed in an incident that the attacker used a phishing email sent to a merchant...
