Sandworm Disrupts Power in Ukraine Using a Novel Attack Against Operational Technology

In late 2022, Mandiant responded to a disruptive cyber physical incident in which the Russia-linked threat actor Sandworm targeted a Ukrainian critical infrastructure organization. This incident was a multi-event cyber attack that leveraged a novel technique for impacting industrial control Read More …

OpenAI Blames ChatGPT’s Intermittent Outages On ‘Abnormal Traffic’ That Suggests Potential Cyber Attack

ChatGPT continued to face intermittent outages late Wednesday, which the platform’s maker OpenAI blamed on a potential cyberattack, hours after the AI chatbot platform recovered from a wide outage that the company initially attributed to a surge in interest for Read More …

FBI: Ransomware Actors Continue to Gain Access through Third Parties and Legitimate System Tools

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this Private Industry Notification to highlight ransomware initial access trends and encourage organizations to implement the recommendations in the “Mitigations” section to reduce the likelihood and impact of ransomware incidents. Threat As Read More …

UK: Cyber attack hits island council computer systems

A suspected ransomware attack has caused significant disruption to IT systems at Western Isles local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. The council said access to its systems had been affected. The Scottish government and computer company Dell have been helping Comhairle Read More …

Indian hackers launch cyber attacks on Qatar to avenge death penalty of former Navy officers

An Indian hacker group, named ‘Indian Cyber Force’ launched cyber attacks on Qatar in response to the death sentence handed to eight former Indian Navy officers by a Qatari court in Espionage case. The Indian hackers claimed of carrying out Read More …

Personal data of 665,000 Marina Bay Sands lifestyle rewards members accessed in data security breach

The personal data of 665,000 Marina Bay Sands customers was accessed in a data security breach in October. The “unauthorised access” took place on Oct 19 and Oct 20 and involved the data of some Sands LifeStyle rewards programme members, Read More …

UK: Government has never paid a ransomware demand, minister says

The government has announced that it has never paid a ransom demanded by cybercriminals – and pledged that it never will. The announcement – made to tie in with last week’s meeting of members of the international Counter Ransomware Initiative Read More …

Agonizing Serpens (Aka Agrius) Targeting the Israeli Higher Education and Tech Sectors

Unit 42 researchers have investigated a series of destructive cyberattacks beginning in January 2023 and continuing as recently as October 2023, targeting the education and technology sectors in Israel. The attacks are characterized by attempts to steal sensitive data, such Read More …