Remember how Suffolk County in New York had decided cyberinsurance was too expensive and how they got hit with a ransomware attack by AlphV in 2022. The county not only had no insurance, but it had no cyberattack recovery plan. Mark Harrington reports another update on that incident: Suffolk County approved more than $25…
Category: Government Sector
‘GhostEmperor’ returns: Mysterious Chinese hacking group spotted for first time in two years
Alexander Martin reports: An elusive and highly covert Chinese hacking group tracked as GhostEmperor — notorious for its sophisticated supply-chain attacks targeting telecommunications and government entities in Southeast Asia — has been spotted for the first time in more than two years. And according to the researchers, the group has gotten even better at evading…
London Borough of Hackney reprimanded following cyber-attack
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 –…
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…