Category: #Hackers

The Biden administration isn’t hesitating to blame China for a string of Microsoft Exchange cyberattacks. The White House has declared “with a high degree of…

Clearly the quickest way to bypass Microsoft facial recognition, no? Biometric authentication is a key piece of the tech industry’s plans to make the world…

Iran faced its own spate of cyberattacks this weekend. Reuters and The Guardian report that Iran’s railway train system and transportation websites suffered a “cyber-disruption”…

A hacker group associated with the Russian government breached the computer systems of the Republican National Committee last week in a massive ransomware attack, Bloomberg…

The U.S. Department of Justice plans to take a much harsher tack when pursuing cybercriminals involved in ransomware attacks—and will investigate them using similar strategies…

Operations are returning to full capacity at meat supplier JBS following a cyberattack that the FBI has attributed to the Russian group REvil. Source: https://www.engadget.com/jbs-ransomware-attack-revil-fbi-121508042.html?src=rss_b2c…

Experts warn ‘no one is out of bounds’ after ransomware attack halts production at JBS, which supplies more than fifth of US beef Meat-processing factories…

JB Foods, the world’s largest beef and pork processor, was hit by a cyber attack on Sunday that’s incapacitated systems in the U.S., Canada, and…

Enlarge / “And people reliably click on these emails? Really?” (credit: Kremlin official photo) The Russian hackers who breached SolarWinds IT management software to compromise…

BOSTON — The state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted spear-phishing assault on U.S. and foreign government agencies and think…

Cybercriminals are waging a war against banks, emptying their ATM machines of money. Their tools of choice are malware, a key from eBay, and a…

Air India has revealed that a data breach compromised 4.5 million passengers dating back to 2011. Source: https://www.engadget.com/air-india-data-breach-163950054.html Proactive Computing found this story and shared…

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Unknown hackers have been exploiting four Android vulnerabilities that allow the execution of malicious code that can take complete control of…

Hacktivists use hacking to further their activist goals, attacking companies they feel deserve punishment, exposure, and service disruption. Hacktivism is on the rise again. We…

Last week, security consultant Bob Diachenko found an unsecured database run by the Etsy-owned music marketplace Reverb. Read more… Source: https://gizmodo.com/etsy-owned-music-sales-site-reverb-hit-with-data-breach-1846789193 Proactive Computing found this…

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ransomware operators have delivered a stunning ultimatum to Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department: pay them $50 million or they’ll leak the…

Casimiro PT/Shutterstock A security flaw allowed “fraudsters” to steal driver’s license numbers from Geico’s online sales system, according to a data breach notice filed with…

Enlarge (credit: Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images) US officials on Thursday formally blamed Russia for backing one of the worst espionage hacks in recent US history…

New research shows that security flaws affecting as many as 100 million smart and industrial devices could allow a hacker to hijack the products or…

Iran is blaming Israel for a power blackout at its main nuclear facility, calling it ‘an act of nuclear terrorism’. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/4/12/how-will-iran-respond-to-the-natanz-nuclear-site-incident Proactive Computing found…

Shutdown happened hours after Natanz reactor’s new centrifuges were started Israel appeared to confirm claims that it was behind a cyber-attack on Iran’s main nuclear…

As the Biden administration hustles to contain the fallout from two massive cyberattacks that hit in the span of four months, the fledgling agency created…