Denmark Raises Cyber Security Alert Level After Attacks From Russian Hacker Groups February 1, 2023 Denmark on Tuesday raised its cyber security alert level from “medium” to “high” after several attacks by pro-Russian hacker groups...
Denial-of-Service Attacks Rise, Raising Concerns for Banks February 1, 2023 By Andrew Martin Long considered a nuisance, distributed-denial-of-service attacks, or DDoS, are a growing problem for banks and other financial businesses, according to...
Hackers Hit Websites of Danish Central Bank and 7 Private Banks January 11, 2023 Hackers have disrupted access to the websites of Denmark’s central bank and seven private banks in the country this week,...
Russian State-Owned Bank VTB Hit by Massive Distributed-Denial-of-Service Attack December 6, 2022 Russia’s No. 2 bank VTB was hit by the largest cyber attack in its history, it said on Tuesday, warning...
Pro-Russian Hacking Group Attacks Romanian Websites May 2, 2022 By Andra Timu Romanian government websites and other institutions were the target of a cyber attack Friday morning that the nation’s intelligence agency...
Russia’s Tech Giant Yandex Says It Repelled Biggest DDoS Attack in History September 9, 2021 By Alexander Marrow and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW — A cyber attack on Russian tech giant Yandex’s servers in August and September was the largest known distributed...
N. Zealand Stock Exchange Cyber Attack also Targeted Insurers, Banks, Financial Firms February 9, 2021 By Yalman Onaran More than 100 banks, exchanges, insurers and other financial firms worldwide were targets of the same type of cyber attack...
How a 2020 Cyber Attack Brought the New Zealand Stock Exchange to Its Knees February 5, 2021 By Jamie Tarabay The website of the New Zealand Stock Exchange slowed to a crawl on a Tuesday afternoon in August. It was...
Hiscox Stages Cyber Attack to Show Small Businesses What It’s Like to Be Hacked January 18, 2019 Hiscox, a specialist in small business and cyber insurance, recently staged a “real world” hack to demonstrate what a cyber...
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...