Software Firm Attacked on July 4 Mum on How It Got Decryption Key July 26, 2021 By Frank Bajak The Florida company whose software was exploited in the devastating Fourth of July weekend ransomware attack, Kaseya, has received a...
U.S. Goes on Offense to Fight Growing Threat of Cyber Attacks June 30, 2021 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius For the last several years, FBI agents debated turning the tables on hackers by remotely accessing breached computer networks and...
Microsoft Finds New Breach When Probing Suspected SolarWinds Hackers June 28, 2021 By Joseph Menn Microsoft said on Friday an attacker had won access to one of its customer-service agents and then used information from...
Vermont Hospital Still Calculating Cost of Ransomware Attack June 21, 2021 Officials at Vermont’s largest hospital are still trying to determine the full financial impact of the cyber attack last October...
New York City’s 1,000-Lawyer Law Department Targeted by Cyber Attack June 15, 2021 By Karen Matthews New York City’s law department was been hit with a cyber attack that forced officials to take the 1,000-lawyer agency...
Student Blamed for Cyber Attack on Massachusetts School’s Network May 21, 2021 A student was behind a cyber attack on a Massachusetts school system this week that temporarily shut down the district’s...
Cyber Ransom Payments Set a Bad Precedent But Happen Often May 14, 2021 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Michael Riley The U.S. government’s fight to choke off ransom payments collected by hackers hit a major snag Thursday, following news that...
Officials Say New York School District Hit by Cyber Attack April 28, 2021 An Albany, New York-area school district is investigating a malware attack that forced students in grades 7 through 12 into...
Homeland Security Orders Cyber ‘Sprints’ as Part of U.S. Plan Against Hacks April 1, 2021 By Alyza Sebenius and Shaun Courtney The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is undertaking a series of “sprints” to enhance American cybersecurity in the wake of...
Insurer CNA Reports It Has Been Hit by ‘Sophisticated’ Cyber Attack March 24, 2021 Commercial lines insurer CNA reported that it has sustained a “sophisticated cybersecurity attack” that caused a network disruption and impacted...