Attack
Spain issues a high alert for Cyber Terrorist Attack
Civil Guard which happens to be the oldest law enforcement agency for Spain has issued a countrywide alert over a possible Cyber Terrorist Attack. FYI, the alert was issued by a high ranking official from Civil Guard who alerted the parliament that the entire IT infrastructure operating in the country including public and private entities […]
NHS lost £92 million and Cancelled 19K appointments due to WannaCry Ransomware Attack
Do you know how much loss did the WannaCry Ransomware Attack cause to UK’s NHS? The news is out that the national healthcare provider lost almost £92 million and had to cancel almost 19,000 appointments due to the computer network disruption caused by the malware in May’17. The loss estimate of WannaCry Cyber Attack was […]
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 […]
Ransomware Attack on Canadian Restaurant ‘Recipe Unlimited’
Canadian Restaurant ‘Recipe Unlimited’ has disclosed that its servers have been attacked by hackers with ransomware and so 700 of its restaurants have been closed due to the computer network disruption. Although the restaurant head denies the claim, a source reporting from CBC News has confirmed that the disruption of Cara Operations (now Recipe Unlimited) […]
British Watchdog to slap £1.25 Billion penalty on Facebook for recent Cyber Attack
Last weekend turned into a nightmare for Facebook users as their favorite social media platform officially disclosed that a cyber attack on its database could have leaked sensitive info of over 50 million users to hackers. As the investigation is still going on, the exact number of compromised accounts remains unclear and might be revealed […]
Over 50 million account info leaked in Facebook Cyber Attack
Facebook shared a blog post today which says that it’s “View As” feature had the potential to allow hackers to take over Facebook accounts. And the flaw could have compromised information of more than 50 million accounts info to hackers. The social media giant has however declared that the discovered flaw was fixed and its […]
Hackers are extensively using Python language in their cyber attack tools
Imperva, a Cybersecurity software and services provider came to a recent conclusion that the world’s most popularly used programming language ‘Python’ is being widely used by hackers in their cyber attack tools, The Redwood City-based company came to the above-said conclusion after finding more than 20% of GitHub Repositories filled with tools to launch cyber […]
Ransomware hits servers at Port of San Diego
A sophisticated cyber attack involving Ransomware is said to have disrupted one or more computer servers at the IT facility of the Port of San Diego. It’s said that the port officials identified the attack at first on Tuesday and then investigated it further to identify that the servers related to Harbor Police and the […]
Tesco Cyber Attack faces £ 30 million fine from UK Financial Watchdog
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), well known as UK’s Financial Watchdog is all set to impose a £ 30 million fine on Tesco for Cyber Attack. Readers of Cybersecurity Insiders have to notify a fact over here that Tesco Bank became a victim of Cyber Attack in November 2016 and reimbursed £ 2.5 million as […]
News Share of 6 Cyber Attack incidents for this day
1.) The parental access to online student info of Oklahoma City Schools is said to have been blocked by a cyber attack last week. Beth Harrison, the spokeswoman of Oklahoma District released a press statement saying that the attack took place on Sept 17 and was identified and contained by the September 19th,2018. But Harrison […]
