From the Information Commissioner’s Office: We have issued the London Borough of Hackey with a reprimand following a cyber-attack in 2020 that led to hackers gaining access to and encrypting 440,000 files, affecting at least 280,000 residents and other individuals including staff. In October 2020, hackers attacked the London Borough of Hackney (LBoH) systems –…
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IDF has fended off more than three billion cyberattacks since Oct. 7
All Israel News reports: The Israeli Defense Forces have been the target of more than three billion cyberattacks since Oct. 7, said Col. Racheli Dembinsky, commander of the IDF’s Center of Computing and Information Systems (Mamram), at the “IT for IDF” conference in Rishon Lezion on Wednesday. The attacks were all intercepted and no damage…
Indonesia says it has begun recovering data after major ransomware attack
The Straits Times reports: Indonesia said it is beginning to recover data that had been encrypted in a major ransomware attack in June which affected more than 160 government agencies. The attackers, identified as Brain Cipher, asked for US$8 million (S$10.7 million) in ransom to unlock the data, before they later apologised and released the decryption key…
Ph: NBI nabs 5 alleged members of hacking syndicate
GMA News Online reports: Five suspected members of a hacking syndicate victimizing government websites and companies were arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation In a statement on Thursday, the NBI said their surveillance operation showed that cybercrime group BLOODSEC International Group Of Hackers was allegedly behind several cyber intrusions to government agencies and companies…
The President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did.
by Craig Silverman, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Zero Trust: Inside Microsoft’s Cybersecurity Failures Investigating how the world’s largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous…
CloudSorcerer hackers abuse cloud services to steal Russian govt data
Bill Toulas reports: A new advanced persistent threat (APT) group named CloudSorcerer abuses public cloud services to steal data from Russian government organizations in cyberespionage attacks. Kaspersky security researchers discovered the cyberespionage group in May 2024. They report that CloudSorcerer uses custom malware that uses legitimate cloud services for command and control (C2) operations and data storage….