Ransomware hackers claim breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google, and Nvidia

Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia, and Sony, among other tech giants, confirmed on Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack that may have affected some of its factories. In a statement Read More …

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu com stays down

Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant. “I can confirm that Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack” Read More …

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war

Iranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegations. Reports from Iran claim hardware made by Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, and Read More …

UK manufacturers under cyber fire with 80% reporting attacks

Nearly 80 percent of British manufacturers say they’ve been hit by a cyber incident in the past year, as new research suggests disruption on the factory floor is no longer an exception but business as usual. According to security outfit Read More …

CISA urges companies to secure Microsoft Intune systems after hackers mass-wipe Stryker devices

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned companies to secure systems for managing their fleets of employee devices after pro-Iran hackers broke into medical tech giant Stryker and mass-wiped thousands of its phones, tablets, and computers. The Read More …

Iran-linked hackers launch cyberattack against U.S. medtech company Stryker

U.S. medical technology company Stryker is currently experiencing a massive cyberattack, which has shut down their computer systems and, as a result, even closed the company’s offices. An Iran-linked digital activist collective known as Handala is claiming credit for the Read More …

Amazon Web Services data centres in the Middle East hit by Iran strikes

Amazon Inc has said two Amazon Web Services data centres in the United Arab Emirates were hit by drone strikes, with another facility in Bahrain damaged by a nearby attack, as Iran retaliated to the strikes by the US and Read More …

Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis

Internet connectivity collapsed across Iran on Thursday amid nationwide protests, according to web monitoring firms. “I think we’re at a near-total disconnection from the outside world now,” Amir Rashidi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher who works for the nonprofit Miaan Group, Read More …

US cyber attacks plunged Caracas into darkness

US cyber attacks cut off power to large areas of Caracas to allow planes and helicopters to strike key military sites and capture Nicolás Maduro. Cyber command, space command and other American agencies layered effects to ensure more than 150 Read More …