Time to stop paying ransoms to get hackers off companies' backs
Business has never been better for cyber gangs, but more can be done to repel them
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Business has never been better for cyber gangs, but more can be done to repel them
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 Ireland's Health Service (HSE) said today that it has shut down all its IT systems after suffering a "significant" cyber attack that affected diagnostic servic...
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 the Colonial pipeline, halting the movement of nearly half of the US east coast's fuel supply. Offi...
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 Colonial pipeline, halting the movement of nearly half of the US east coast’s fuel supply. Officials are...
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 SolarWinds operation. Investigators told Reuters that the attack had already led to hundreds of cust...