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  • Australian horse riding organisations caught up in cyber attack impacting 10,000 people

    July 6, 2023

    Cyber criminals have targeted yet another Australian small business by stealing and leaking the data of 10,000 people. Last month, the data of a little-known company called Event Secretary was published on an online forum. Unfortunately, Event Secretary was the platform that several major Australian horse riding organisations used to book and enter into equestrian competitions ...

  • Japan’s biggest port hit by suspected cyberattack, operations halted

    July 5, 2023

    The Port of Nagoya, Japan’s largest port by total cargo throughput and responsible for handling some of Toyota Motor Corp.’s car exports, has suffered a crippling system glitch, with the port operator saying Wednesday it suspects a cyberattack. As of noon, the port in central Japan remained unable to load and unload containers from trailers. Police ...

  • TSMC discloses data breach from LockBit-claimed attack against third party

    July 4, 2023

    Major Taiwanese multinational chip manufacturing firm Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has confirmed experiencing a data breach as a result of a cyberattack against Kinmax, which is one of its IT hardware suppliers, before the end of June, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Such a disclosure comes after the LockBit ransomware ...

  • Microsoft Denies Major 30 Million Customer-Breach

    July 4, 2023

    Microsoft has hit back at claims from a shadowy hacktivist outfit that it managed to breach the company and obtain account access for tens of millions of customers. Anonymous Sudan, which has been linked in the past to pro-Kremlin groups like Killnet, posted the details of its alleged raid on Telegram. Read more… Source: Infosecurity Magazine  

  • Chinese threat actors targeting Europe in SmugX campaign

    July 3, 2023

    In the last couple of months, Check Point Research (CPR) has been tracking the activity of a Chinese threat actor targeting Foreign Affairs ministries and embassies in Europe. Combined with other Chinese activity previously reported by Check Point Research, this represents a larger trend within the Chinese ecosystem, pointing to a shift to targeting European entities, ...

  • ‘Pay and benefits compromised’ in Dublin Airport cyber attack

    July 3, 2023

    The pay and benefits details of nearly 2,000 staff members of daa, which operates Dublin Airport, were compromised due to a recent cyber attack on professional service provider Aon, the Sunday Times reported. A spokesperson said that as a result of a recent cyber attack on Aon, a third-party provider, data relating to some employees’ pay ...

  • More sensitive Optus data leaked in major cyberattack on law firm

    July 1, 2023

    Optus has been caught up in another major cyberattack, with sensitive information about a privacy watchdog investigation into the mobile-phone company breached by Russian hackers. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is one of dozens of government departments and agencies scrambling to find out how much of their data has been breached in a hack ...

  • A proxyjacking campaign is looking for vulnerable SSH servers

    June 30, 2023

    A researcher at Akamai has posted a blog about a worrying new trend -proxyjacking – where criminals sell your bandwidth to a third-party proxy service. To understand how proxyjacking works, we’ll need to explain a few things. There are several legitimate services that pay users to share their surplus Internet bandwidth, such as Peer2Profit and HoneyGain. ...

  • Cyberattack knocks out satellite communications for Russian military

    June 30, 2023

    Dozor-Teleport, the satellite system’s operator, switched some users to terrestrial networks during the outage, according to JD Work, a cyberspace professor at the National Defense University. Analyst Doug Madory of Kentik, which monitors online traffic, said one network was taken over by Dozor’s parent company, Amtel-Svyaz, while three others remained down. The company did not release ...

  • CISA: DoS and DDoS Attacks against Multiple Sectors

    June 30, 2023

    CISA is aware of open-source reporting of targeted denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against multiple organizations in multiple sectors. These attacks can cost an organization time and money and may impose reputational costs while resources and services are inaccessible. If you think you or your business is experiencing a DoS or DDoS attack, it ...