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Irish health service suffers significant ransomware attack Events About If you already have an account please use the link below to sign in. If you have any problems with your access or would like to request an individual access account please contact our customer service team. The incident is having a major impact on all local and national systems involved in core services Irish health service suffers significant ransomware attack Irelands Health Service (HSE) said today that it has shut down ...

How a major oil pipeline fell victim to a cyber attack 11 May, 2021 05:25 AM 6 minutes to read Colonial Pipeline transports more than 2.5 million barrels of fuel every day. Photo / AP Other By: Matthew Field and James Cook for the Telegraph It took just two hours for cyber criminals to steal almost 100 gigabytes of data from one of the biggest energy pipelines in the US. On Friday, a shadowy criminal gang, known as Darkside, was able to use that data to lock the computers of...

US pipeline attack raises fears over global cybersecurity The attack, carried out by hacking group Darkside, is just one of a growing list of ransomware threats to critical infrastructure Storage tanks for the 5,500 mile Colonial Pipeline Credit: AP It took just two hours for cyber criminals to steal almost 100 gigabytes of data from one of the biggest energy pipelines in the US. On Friday, a shadowy criminal gang, known as Darkside, was able to use that data to lock the computers of the Coloni...

Codecov Supply Chain Attack May Hit Thousands: Report Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine Experts have urged organizations to reassess cyber-risk in their supply chains as it emerged that hundreds of customers of a software auditing company had their networks accessed illegally. Originally thought only to have affected the supplier, San Francisco-based Codecov, the incident is now believed to have been a deliberate supply chain attack likened in sophistication to the ...

Citing Orange’s Security Navigator 2021 report, Charl van der Walt, head of security research at Orange Cyberdefense, began by outlining some unexpected trends in regards to incidents detected in the early stages of the crisis. Comparing two countries that took differing approaches to dealing with COVID-19 infections, in the tightly locked down France, there was a decrease in confirmed cyber-incidents of 18%, whereas in Sweden, where there was a much lighter approach to social distancing tak...

The cyber-risks associated with connected operational technology (OT) systems were laid bare on Monday after an unknown online assailant tried to remotely poison the water supply of a Florida city. The attacker accessed the water treatment system for Oldsmar city in Pinellas County and tried to increase the amount of sodium hydroxide (lye) in the water almost 100-fold, officials said yesterday. Also known as caustic soda, sodium hydroxide could cause vomiting, diarrhoea and damage to internal o...

Google has warned security researchers they are being targeted by an ongoing government-backed hacking campaign based in North Korea. The tech giant said it uncovered several false social media profiles on platforms including Twitter and LinkedIn, where bad actors would lure targets to a fake blog featuring “guest” posts from unwitting legitimate security researchers. According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group, attackers would then start talking to potential targets, asking if they would...

Google has warned security researchers they are being targeted by an ongoing government-backed hacking campaign based in North Korea. The tech giant said it uncovered several false social media profiles on platforms including Twitter and LinkedIn, where bad actors would lure targets to a fake blog featuring “guest” posts from unwitting legitimate security researchers. According to Google’s Threat Analysis Group, attackers would then start talking to potential targets, asking if they would...

Sepa data leaks as agency resists ransom demands The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is resisting extortion demands from a ransomware gang, but has suffered a data leak in retaliation Share this item with your network: By Published: 22 Jan 2021 12:01 The Conti ransomware gang has published a number of files stolen from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) in an attack on Christmas Eve, as the agency continues to resist its demands to pay. The attack saw the theft of 1.2...