Hack That Crippled UK Hospitals Highlights Growing Threat to NHS June 6, 2024 By Jordan Robertson and Jake Bleiberg In June of last year, a Russian cybercrime gang called BlackCat hacked the Barts Health NHS Trust, a part of...
U.S. Charges 3 North Koreans in $1.3B Hacking of Banks, Sony, Others February 18, 2021 By Mark Hosenball, Raphael Satter and Sarah N. Lynch The United States has charged three North Korean computer programmers with a massive hacking spree aimed at stealing more than...
Second Florida City Pays Hackers As Third City Faces Breach June 28, 2019 By Mike Schneider and Curt Anderson A second small Florida city this month has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to hackers who took over most...
Florida City Pays $600K to Hackers to Save Computer Records June 21, 2019 By Terry Spencer A Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system, the latest in...
Singapore Data Leak of Records of 14,200 HIV Patients Blamed on U.S. Citizen January 29, 2019 By Saket Sundria Records of as many as 14,200 people with HIV and their 2,400 contacts have been “illegally disclosed online”, Singapore’s health...
U.S. Charges North Korean Hacker for WannaCry and Sony Cyber Attacks September 7, 2018 By Christopher Bing and Sarah N. Lynch The U.S. government on Thursday charged and sanctioned a North Korean man in the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware cyberattack and...
Cyber Attacks Pose Greatest Threat to UK Businesses, Investors: PwC Survey February 26, 2018 By Mark Burton Investors and chief executives say cyber attacks pose the greatest threat to businesses operating in the U.K., outweighing other material...
Siemens Joins 8 Industry Partners (Including Allianz) to Counter Cyber Attacks February 16, 2018 By Oliver Sachgau and Jacqueline Simmons Siemens AG is joining with companies including Airbus SE and IBM to try to counter large-scale hacking attacks that threaten...
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...
Malaysia, Australia Investigate Massive Commercial, Governmental Data Breaches November 2, 2017 By Shamim Adam, Matthew Burgess and Yoolim Lee Malaysia is investigating the theft of mobile-phone records for 46.2 million customers, while an online security lapse in Australia exposed...