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The Federal Bureau of Investigations does a poor job at notifying victims of a cyber-attack, a US government report released earlier this week concluded. FBI notifications arrive either too late or contain insufficient information for victims to take action, a report from Read More …
German firm detected hacker code and covertly monitored it for over a year, before clearing it from network Security officials at the German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences giant Bayer AG seem to be on the ball after they detected Read More …
Saudi Arabia has accessed the phone of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and obtained private data from it, his security officer has said. Gavin De Becker launched an investigation after the National Enquirer published intimate texts that Mr Bezos had sent Read More …
Although heavily focused on the Middle East, Elfin (aka APT33) has also targeted a range of organizations in the U.S. including a number of major corporations. The Elfin espionage group (aka APT33) has remained highly active over the past three Read More …
The OceanLotus hacking group is back with a new campaign in 2019 complete with new exploits, decoys, and self-extracting malicious archives. Also known as APT32, SeaLotus, APT-C-00, and Cobalt Kitty, OceanLotus is a hacking group which operates across Asia and Read More …
Kew Gardens, National History Museum, Tate Gallery and Imperial War Museum have been hammered by a total of 109 million cyber attacks over the last few years according to Parliament Street. The research firm issued a Freedom of Information (FOI) Read More …
There are various steps that an attacker must follow in order to execute any successful attack, with the initial compromise being just one stage in the overall attack chain. Once attackers have successfully breached the perimeter of an organization, they Read More …
An online email verification service has taken itself offline after approximately 809 million of its customers’ emails were exposed through an unprotected server. Researchers discovered a non-password protected MongoDB instance amounting to 150GB of data split across four separate collections Read More …
Group behind the SingHealth breach is also responsible for a string of other attacks in the region. In July 2018, an attack on Singapore’s largest public health organization, SingHealth, resulted in a reported 1.5 million patient records being stolen. Until Read More …
A cyber attack on Australian lawmakers that breached the networks of major political parties was probably carried out by a foreign government, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, but did not name any suspects. As Australia heads for an Read More …
