A Iran-linked “hacktivist” group that has been active since at least 2023 has struck again, this time the cyber attack caused damage to the business operations of major medtech firm Stryker.
The group Silent Crow took credit for a recent attack on major regional airline Aeroflot, an apparent ransomware attack that caused a rash of flight cancellations and delays. The hackers claim that they spent a year reconnoitering and planning the Aeroflot cyber attack while having a foothold in their systems.
The massive 2023 cyber attack on Clorox is raising some legal questions about help desk obligations, as the cleaning products giant is suing former contractor Cognizant for allegedly letting the attackers in the door.
The now-prominent Chinese AI company has been beset with issues in its first few weeks of relevance: jailbreaking, censorship, hallucination issues, and now a cyber attack that halted new user registrations.
Nearly a week after first announcing a “network outage” that shut all of its money transfer services down, MoneyGram is still working to restore its core operations. The company has since confirmed that the outage has actually been caused by a cyber attack.
LockBit hackers took advantage of a temporary national data center, one of four used by Indonesia’s government, to deploy ransomware and snarl various services in the country in a cyber attack last week.
Recent cyber attack on London hospitals, caused by an attack on a shared pathology lab that had been previously identified as a cybersecurity risk shows the popularity of healthcare organizations as a target for ransomware.
A fairly major destructive cyber attack that took place over half a year ago is only just now becoming known to the public. ISP in the Midwest region of the United States was targeted and about 600,000 internet routers ended up being destroyed.
Christie’s did not have to cancel any of the $578 million worth of art auctions during its busy period, but did have to push at least one back a day as it scrambled to work around reduced online functionality due to a cyber attack.
Lloyd’s of London estimates that by the midpoint of the present century, there will be some sort of a cyber attack on a major payments system that causes rippling global damage to the tune of trillions of dollars. The current cyber insurance industry is sitting on no more than about $9 billion in total.