Best Read Cyber Headlines
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#1 Spyware Hacking of Egyptian Oppo Leader Prompts Updates from Apple
Sep 25 2023 // BOSTON (AP) — A leading Egyptian opposition politician was targeted with spyware after announcing a presidential bid, security researchers reported Friday. They said Egyptian authorities were likely behind the...
#2 Bermuda Public Services Remain Disrupted After Cyber Attack
Sep 26 2023 // Bermuda is working to restore public services that were halted after last week’s “sophisticated and deliberate” cyberattack on its government systems, the island’s premier, E. David Burt, said on...
#3 Marsh McLennan Asks Court to Revisit Data Breach Ruling to Avoid Flood of Litigation
Sep 28 2023 // Marsh McLennan wants the Second Circuit appeals court to reconsider its August decision that overruled a district court and reinstated a former employee’s lawsuit against the company over a 2021 data breach. Marsh...
#4 MGM Hackers Waited for Days Before Issuing Their Ransom Demands
Oct 13 2023 // MGM Resorts International Chief Executive Officer Bill Hornbuckle chose not pay a ransom to hackers who broke into his casino chain’s computer system because they didn’t ask for money until well after the...
#5 US, UK Say Russia Targeted Officials in Political Cyber Campaign
Dec 8 2023 // The US and UK have launched a coordinated effort to disrupt a longtime alleged Russian government hacking campaign aimed at what they say is an attempt to undermine democratic processes in both their countries. The UK...
#6 ICBC Flies Top Executives to US in Race to Contain Hack Fallout
Nov 14 2023 // Within days of a cyberattack at its US unit, members of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.’s management were on a plane. Officials from the world’s largest lender arrived in the US over the weekend...
#7 Hacking Groups, Including Some Tied to Russia, Are Attacking Israeli Websites
Oct 10 2023 // Hacking groups, including some tied to Russia, are attacking Israeli government and media websites, allying themselves with the Palestinian military group Hamas that launched a series of deadly strikes on the country over...
#8 Cyber ‘Catastrophe Bonds’ Move Step Closer to Hitting Public Debt Markets
Nov 13 2023 // Cyber catastrophe bonds may be about to move out of the shadows of private deal-making and into the public debt markets. So-called cat bonds, which farm out hard-to-insure risks to capital market investors in exchange for...
#9 MGM Casino Expects $100 Million Hit From Hack That Led to Data Breach
Oct 6 2023 // MGM Resorts International said on Thursday a cyberattack last month that disrupted its operations would cause a $100 million hit to its third-quarter results, as it works to restore its systems. One of the world’s...
#10 Mercenary Hackers Stole Data Exxon Cited in Climate Lawsuits: US Prosecutors
Oct 13 2023 // U.S. prosecutors say an Israeli private investigator used hackers to steal emails from climate activists who were campaigning against American energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp. In a sentencing memo filed on Thursday, U.S....
#11 Russia-Linked Hackers Claim Credit for OpenAI Outage
Nov 13 2023 // A hacking group linked to Russia claimed responsibility for attacks that periodically forced OpenAI’s ChatGPT offline last week, saying it targeted the company due to its support of Israel. The group, which calls...
#12 Cyber Pro Talks Managing Insider Threats, Building a Cybersecurity Career
Oct 11 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Boyd Clewis’s journey to building a career in cybersecurity began with learning how to persevere and problem solve in the face of setbacks – advice he now shares with companies for...
#13 Ransomware Prompts Multistate Hospital Chain to Divert Some ER Patients
Nov 30 2023 // A ransomware attack has prompted a healthcare chain that operates 30 hospitals in six states to divert patients from at least some of its emergency rooms to other hospitals, while putting certain elective procedures on...
#14 Ransomware Gang LockBit Revises Its Tactics to Get More Blackmail Money
Nov 20 2023 // LockBit, the prolific ransomware gang that has launched attacks recently on Boeing Co. and Industrial Commercial Bank of China Ltd., among others, has revised the way it tries to blackmail victims because it’s...
#15 Viewpoint: How Corporate Help Desks Became the Weak Spot in Cyber Defenses
Jan 31 2024 // The cyberattack on MGM Resorts in September 2023 provides a vivid example of the effects these types of attacks can have in today’s complex and interconnected IT environments. MGM estimates the incident-related costs...
#16 Breaches by Iran-Affiliated Hackers Spanned Multiple States
Dec 4 2023 // A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made,...
#17 World’s Biggest Bank Had to Trade Via USB Stick After Cyber Attack
Nov 13 2023 // On Thursday, trades handled by the world’s largest bank in the globe’s biggest market traversed Manhattan on a USB stick. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.’s US unit had been hit by a...
#18 Lockbit Hackers’ Swagger on Display After Police Leak Identities Online
Feb 21 2024 // One of the world’s biggest criminal hacking gangs woke up on Tuesday to a startling discovery: Law enforcement, after taking over their main website on Monday, were now threatening to reveal their personal details...
#19 23andMe Says Health Data Was Included in Hack That Compromised 6.9 Million Users
Dec 5 2023 // Some 6.9 million 23andMe customers had their data compromised after an anonymous hacker accessed user profiles and posted them for sale on the internet earlier this year, the company said on Monday. The compromised data...
#20 Clorox Audit Revealed Cybersecurity Flaws at Its Plants in 2020
Mar 27 2024 // A few years before a 2023 cyberattack disrupted manufacturing at one of the largest US producers of disinfectants ahead of flu season, an audit warned of systemic cybersecurity flaws within the company’s production...
