All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 1 2024 // A cyberattack disrupted the court systems in Fulton County, Georgia, where former President Donald Trump faces a criminal case for allegedly interfering with the 2020 election results.Officials earlier this week were...
Feb 1 2024 // Two Pennsylvania county governments — Bucks and Washington— reported some progress this week restoring computer systems and overcoming the effects of cyber incidents.But both still have work to do to return to...
Feb 1 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Probitas, Liberty Specialty Markets, and CFC.A summary of these new hires follows here. Probitas Appoints Botnick to Launch Canadian Service...
Jan 31 2024 // The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), last month announced that Lafourche Medical Group, a Louisiana medical group specializing in emergency medicine, occupational medicine,...
Jan 31 2024 // The U.S. government in recent months launched an operation to fight a pervasive Chinese hacking operation that successfully compromised thousands of internet-connected devices, according to two Western security officials...
Jan 31 2024 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tvArctic Wolf and Cyber Risk Alliance’s 2023 Cyber Insurance Outlook Report found that while more than 70% of organizations surveyed in the report have a cyber insurance policy, nearly...
Jan 31 2024 // Despite law enforcement actions, fourth quarter 2023 ransomware incidents still surpassed 2022 by nearly 70%, and the number of active ransomware groups grew by 34%.Corvus Insurance recently released its Q4 2023 Ransomware...
Jan 31 2024 // The cyberattack on MGM Resorts in September 2023 provides a vivid example of the effects these types of attacks can have in today’s complex and interconnected IT environments. MGM estimates the incident-related costs...
Jan 30 2024 // Microsoft Corp. said an account that was compromised by Russia-linked hackers, resulting in a hack of some company emails including senior leaders, didn’t have multifactor authentication enabled.The hackers...
Jan 30 2024 // BOXX Insurance, the Toronto-based cyber insurtech and managing general agent, has announced the launch of a cyber risk mitigation solution in collaboration with AXA, aimed at providing crucial support to small...
Jan 30 2024 // San Francisco, California-based Resilience expanded its underwriting authority to serve large global companies with up to $10 billion in annual revenues. The company reported that its expanded authorities come after a...
Jan 29 2024 // Broker WTW said it has launched a cyber solution specifically for business with annual revenue under $50 million, including startups and pre-revenue accounts. This tailored solution for small- and medium-sized enterprises...
Jan 29 2024 // Scammers hacked into doctors’ electronic prescribing accounts, wrote tens of thousands of bogus orders for addictive drugs, then had runners pick them up from pharmacies in multiple states so they could be illegally...
Jan 29 2024 // The number of North Korean-linked hacks of cryptocurrency platforms rose to a record high in 2023, though the actual amount of funds stolen dropped around 40%, a report Wednesday from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis...
Jan 29 2024 // Hewlett Packard Enterprise disclosed Wednesday that suspected state-backed Russian hackers broke into its cloud-based email system and stole data from cybersecurity and other employees.The provider of information...
Jan 26 2024 // Pennsylvania’s Bucks County reported that it is continuing to investigate a cybersecurity incident that caused an extended outage of the Emergency Communications’ Department’s computer-aided dispatch...
Jan 26 2024 // Several major Ukrainian state organizations on Thursday reported cyber attacks on their systems, in the latest wave that a source close to the government blamed on Russian intelligence.Ukraine’s state-run energy...
Jan 25 2024 // The criminal hacking gang LockBit said it was behind a ransomware attack that shut down some of the operations of EquiLend, a financial-technology firm that processes trillions of dollars of securities-lending transactions...
Jan 23 2024 // Wall Street’s top regulator was the victim of “SIM swapping,” a technique internet fraudsters use to seize control of telephone lines, when its account on the social media platform X, formerly known as...
Jan 23 2024 // A Massachusetts hospital that suffered a cyber attack in December has been hit with a class action lawsuit for its alleged failure to secure patients’ personal information.Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport...