- UK: Council website back online after cyber attack
November 1, 2024
Burnley Council website is back online after being disrupted by a cyber attack yesterday afternoon. Services across numerous councils in the North West, including Tameside Council and Salford City Council were targeted with a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS). IT teams have now successfully restored the website, and no data has been compromised. Read more… Source: MSN ...
- Banks refund less than 10% of money stolen by cyber scammers – Bank of Russia’s Chief
February 15, 2024
Russian banks manage to refund less than 10% of the money cyber scammers steal from citizens’ accounts, head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, said at the Cybersecurity in Finance forum. “Of course, we see that the share of refunds to people who were victims of cyber fraud has increased. But the exact figures – ...