Wall Street Stock-Lending Platform Crashes in Ransomware Attack January 25, 2024 By Donal Griffin and Ryan Gallagher The criminal hacking gang LockBit said it was behind a ransomware attack that shut down some of the operations of...
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Group Hacked Employee Emails January 22, 2024 By Dina Bass and Katrina Manson Microsoft Corp. said a Russian-linked hacking group attacked its corporate systems, getting into a “small number” of email accounts, including...
Iranian-Linked Hacks Expose Vulnerabilities of US Water System December 27, 2023 By Jamie Tarabay and Katrina Manson In late November, an Iranian-backed hacking group attacked Israeli-made digital controls commonly used in the water and wastewater industries in...
Breaches by Iran-Affiliated Hackers Spanned Multiple States December 4, 2023 By Frank Bajak and Marc Levy A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers...
US, Britain, Other Countries Ink Agreement to Make AI ‘Secure by Design’ November 28, 2023 By Raphael Satter and Diane Bartz The United States, Britain and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday unveiled what a senior U.S. official described...
Microsoft’s Role in Email Breach to Be Part of Cyber Inquiry August 14, 2023 By William Turton A US cybersecurity advisory panel will investigate malicious targeting of cloud computing environments, including Microsoft Corp.’s role in a recent...
US Agencies Hit in MOVEit Hacking Campaign as Victim List Grows June 16, 2023 By Ryan Gallagher and Katrina Manson Multiple US agencies were compromised by a hacking campaign in which attackers have exploited flaws in a popular software tool...
China Is ‘Big Threat’ to Energy Industry, Cybersecurity Official Says March 13, 2023 By Naureen S. Malik The US energy industry must shore up protection against cyberattacks from China, a more pressing concern than attacks from Russia...
Cyber-Defense Agency Urges Companies to Automate Threat Testing September 16, 2022 By Katrina Manson The US government’s cyber defense agency is recommending for the first time that companies embrace automated continuous testing to protect...
Wall Street Banks Quietly Test Cyber Defenses at Treasury’s Direction June 27, 2022 By Christopher Condon and Craig Torres With global tensions rising over Ukraine, the cutthroat competitiveness of the US financial sector is yielding to partnership over the...