Cyber Incidents Most Feared BI Trigger for Global Companies: Allianz Risk Report January 17, 2018 By L.S. Howard Business interruption and cyber incidents interlink as the major threat facing companies over the coming year, according to a report...
UK Fines Mobile Phone Retailer Carphone Warehouse over 2015 Data Breach January 10, 2018 Britain’s information regulator said on Wednesday it had fined Carphone Warehouse 400,000 pounds ($539,400) after a 2015 cyber attack exposed...
Hackers Target SWIFT Payments System at Russia’s Globex Bank December 22, 2017 By Katya Golubkova and Jim Finkle Hackers tried to steal 55 million roubles ($940,000) from Russian state bank Globex using the SWIFT international payments messaging system,...
Russian-Speaking Hackers Steal $10M from U.S., Russia Banks: Cyber Security Firm December 12, 2017 By Jake Rudnitsky A previously unknown ring of Russian-speaking hackers has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks in...
Cyber Criminals Steal $64M of Bitcoin From Cryptocurrency Firm NiceHash December 8, 2017 By Jim Finkle and Jeremy Wagstaff A Slovenian cryptocurrency mining marketplace, NiceHash, said it lost about $64 million worth of bitcoin in a hack of its...
UK Banks Under-Reporting Successful Cyber Attacks: Regulator December 7, 2017 By Suzi Ring UK banks still aren’t telling regulators about all the cyber attacks on the financial services industry despite a ten-fold increase...
Global Banks Face ‘Significant Evolution’ in Cyber Threat Level: SWIFT November 30, 2017 By Gavin Finch Global banks need to do more to protect themselves from cyber attacks after a “significant evolution” in the threat level...
Uber’s UK Data Breach Exposed Accounts of 2.7M Customers in 2016 November 30, 2017 By Adam Satariano Uber Technologies Inc. said information from 2.7 million U.K. customers was taken in a 2016 security breach that hit 57...
Millions of Devices in Europe Remain Undefended Against Cyber Attacks: Report November 28, 2017 A year after a wave of denial-of-service attacks knocked out major websites around the world, millions of unsecured printers, network...
With 4,000 Ransom Attacks a Day, Cyber Crime Threatens Financial Sector: Europol November 9, 2017 By Axel Bugge The “remorseless” growth of cyber crime is leading to 4,000 ransom attacks a day and gangs’ technological capability now threatens...