Catalin Cimpanu reports: Finnish officials formally blamed today a group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as APT31 for a cyber-attack that breached the Finnish Parliament’s internal IT systems last year. The attack, which took place in the fall of 2020, also resulted in attackers gaining access to the email accounts of some members of Parliament,…
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FBI releases annual IC3 crime report
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released their annual report. Overall, the statistics and trends are pretty much what we would have expected to see from reading the news every day. Complaints about crime increased year over year for the past 5 years, with the most significant increase in number of reports occurring in…
AU: Eastern Health cyber ‘incident’ cancels some surgeries across Melbourne
Asha Barbaschowre Some surgeries have been cancelled at Eastern Health facilities in Victoria, following a “cyber incident” experienced late Tuesday. Eastern Health operates the Angliss, Box Hill, Healesville, and Maroondah hospitals, and has many more facilities under management. In a statement, Eastern Health said it took many of its systems offline in response to the…
Nikkei’s Hong Kong affiliate hit by unauthorized access
Nikkei on Wednesday said incidents of unauthorized access to some email accounts used by Nikkei China (Hong Kong), an overseas group company, and Nikkei’s Hong Kong bureau have been discovered, raising concerns that personal information, including the names of customers, may have been leaked. Read more on Nikkei Asia.
Ripoff Report and Armor Games Hacker Sentenced to Prison
There’s an update to the case of a young Cypriot hacker who pleaded guilty in January to hacking Armor Games and Ripoff Report. A Nicosia court had ruled in 2019 that Joshua Epiphaniou was to be extradited here. He is the first Cypriot national ever extradited from Cyprus to the United States. Today, the U.S. Attorney’s…
Hackers hacked into the system of three Prague polyclinics, e-mails and ordering system do not work
The following is a translation: The mentioned three polyclinics fall under the company Poliklinika IPP . “It is true, but I do not want to comment on it. The whole event is now being investigated and I do not want to endanger what is happening around, “confirmed the attack by Lenka Šmídová, executive of the IPP Polyclinic. Whether the perpetrators demanded money,…