#cyber-attack

#cyber-attack

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Microsoft has warned Europe to be on alert for cyber attacks from Russia this winter, just as a series of attacks hit Russian organizations - including the country's second-largest bank.The government-controlled St Petersburg-based VTB finaincial institution announced on Tuesday it was facing an "unprecedented cyber attack from abroad," and added that the DDoS flood was the largest in the bank's history.

JD Sports has confirmed it will be refreshing its cyber security stack following the serious cyber attack it sustained at the start of the year.In a regulatory filing published on Wednesday, the retail group said it has appointed a third-party consultancy that will work to create a "better-integrated cyber vendor ecosystem" for the company.

Technology was starting to look easy.Too easy.Then Elon Musk bought Twitter.And Bing and Google flung out their spins on generative AI.And ransomware took down Royal Mail, a software fault grounded BA flights and the same happened across domestic US flights.In the era before Musk bought Twitter, I was bewildered that a site with active users in the hundreds of millions - rather than the billions of rivals such as Facebook or TikTok - had 7,500 staff and still managed to be so terrible at battling , fascism and spam.

Social media platform Reddit has moved to reassure its users that their data is secure, after a cyber attack on its systems that saw an unspecified threat actor gain unauthorised access to a limited number of internal documents, code and some internal business systems.The data breach first came to light on Sunday 5 February, when Reddit's security team became aware of the "sophisticated" and targeted phishing attack, where Reddit employees were targeted with seemingly plausible email prompts that directed them to a cloned version of its intranet gateway.

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South Korean authorities believe North Korean hackers, working for the government, have targeted at least 892 foreign policy experts in the country.The efforts focused on members of think tanks and academics, dating back to April.The attacks began with spear phishing emails, often claiming to be from figures in South Koreas political system.

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched a fresh package of expert support aimed at CEOs and other senior business leaders, with the aim of encouraging them to take a more pivotal role in boosting their organisations' cyber resilience, make informed decisions, and adopt a systematic and practical approach to security issues.

An Ajax father has filed a complaint with Ontario's privacy commissioner over what he calls a "weird" decision by the regional school board.At the beginning of the month, the Durham District School Board (DDSB) sent a letter to parents of all online students demanding they prove they live in Durham Region.

A major Toronto hospital network says it expects its digital systems to be restored by the end of the day after a full outage forced it to declare a "code grey" and delayed patient care.The University Health Network (UHN) said it is confident the outage was not caused by a cyber attack."There was no breach of patient data as the problems with the systems were entirely internal," it said.

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued advice and guidance for users of AI tools such as ChatGPT that rely on large language model (LLM) algorithms, saying that while they present some data privacy risks, they are not necessarily that useful currently when it comes to deploying them in the service of cyber criminal activity.

Under-resourced charities running services and fundraising activities online are increasingly seen as a soft touch by cyber criminals looking to make a quick buck, and are at risk of malicious actors taking advantage of public generosity during challenging times.In a newly issued report, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) highlighted how besides launching cyber attacks against charities, cyber criminals are also "inserting" themselves into the third sector, masquerading as legitimate charities to siphon off bona fide donations from the public, as has been observed in numerous incidences relating to charity drives for Ukraine.

Travelers wait in the terminal as an Alaska Airlines plane sits at a gate at Los Angeles International Airport early Wednesday.Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images After thousands of flights were delayed or canceled on Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration's preliminary investigation points to a "damaged database file" in a key system.

A ransomware gang claims to have stolen 375 gigabytes worth of employee and customer data from the Australian real estate giant, LJ Hooker, including passport scans, credit card details, and loans data.On November 30, LJ Hooker was added to the victim list of Russia-linked ransomware gang, ALPHV, also known as BlackCat, in a blog post on the dark web previewing some of the data stolen in the breach.

Most organisations fail miserably at defending themselves from cyber attack and ransomware intrusion.That's the view of James Blake, EMEA CSO at Cohesity, who spoke to Computer Weekly about key features in the backup company's recently launched Datahawk service and its Data Security Alliance initiative.