All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 17 2024 // Business leaders place cybersecurity, the economy, regulatory challenges and global instability among their top concerns for the coming year, fueled by factors such as AI, climate change, nuclear verdicts and political...
Jun 14 2024 // Multiple companies in the U.S. and Canada experienced a record number of cyber extortion events in 2023 and unprecedented demands, a new report from Marsh shows.The report, Ransomware: A persistent challenge in cyber...
Jun 14 2024 // Snowflake Inc. plans to close its own investigation this week into a hacking campaign that ensnared as many as 165 of its customers.The cloud data and analytics company hasn’t detected any unauthorized access into...
Jun 13 2024 // Canada’s largest school district is investigating a cyber incident, adding to a series of ransomware attacks that have caused disruptions to companies and public institutions in the country.The Toronto District...
Jun 12 2024 // U.S. healthcare providers can ask UnitedHealth Group to notify people whose data was exposed during a hack on the company’s Change Healthcare unit in February, according to an update on the health department’s...
Jun 12 2024 // The Massachusetts town of Arlington reports it has lost $445,945 in funds intended for a contractor working on a high school building project that were instead diverted to hackers orchestrating a wire fraud scam.Town...
Jun 12 2024 // A London hospital, facing blood supply disruptions after a cyberattack last week paralyzed operations, is asking its own clinical workers for blood.King’s College Hospital is calling on staff with the blood type O to...
Jun 7 2024 // Nirvana, the London-based managing general agent and Lloyd’s coverholder, announced the renewal of its Media/Technology Errors & Omissions and Cyber (MTC) binding authority with an increased £/$/€10 million...
Jun 7 2024 // Santa Barbara Systems, a General Dynamics subsidiary in Spain that is refurbishing Leopard tanks for delivery to Ukraine, suffered a cyberattack on its website, a pro-Russia hacker group said.A spokesperson for General...
Jun 6 2024 // USI Insurance Services (USI) announced the launch of PATH (patent pending), a proprietary technology-enabled risk control platform for clients.The new platform leverages industry-specific benchmark data to generate...
Jun 6 2024 // In June of last year, a Russian cybercrime gang called BlackCat hacked the Barts Health NHS Trust, a part of the UK’s National Health Service that operates several hospitals in London, and published some of it online...
Jun 6 2024 // The Internet of Things (IoT), which refers to the collection of internet-enabled devices such as wearables, industrial sensors and controls, and closed-circuit cameras, has revolutionized processes from pharmaceuticals...
Jun 6 2024 // CANTON, Miss. (AP) — Madison County has recovered an estimated $900,000 after an investigation found that the county was defrauded out of millions of tax dollars, authorities said Monday.Sheriff Randy Tucker updated the...
Jun 5 2024 // Services at several London hospitals were disrupted after a provider that helps manage blood transfusions and lab services was hit by a ransomware attack.Lab services provider Synnovis confirmed the attack in a statement...
Jun 5 2024 // Hackers targeted well known brands and celebrities on TikTok, sending a malicious link through private messages to hijack prominent accounts.The ByteDance Ltd.-owned social media service said it’s taking steps to...
Jun 4 2024 // A top US spy chief said China is increasingly using its companies to find vulnerabilities in their own computer networks and then tapping that knowledge to target foreign nations and industries.“We’re really...
Jun 3 2024 // Live Nation Entertainment said on Friday it was investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster unit that it discovered on May 20, the latest in a string of high-profile corporate hacks in the past year.In a filing with...
Jun 3 2024 // An unidentified hacking group launched a massive cyberattack on a telecommunications company in the U.S. heartland late last year that disabled hundreds of thousands of internet routers, according to research published...
May 30 2024 // Business leaders place cybersecurity, the economy, regulatory challenges and global instability among their top concerns for the coming year, fueled by factors such as AI, climate change, nuclear verdicts and political...
May 29 2024 // After a cyberattack on Christie’s auction house earlier this month, a hacker group called RansomHub claimed responsibility.In a post on the dark web Monday, RansomHub said that it had gained access to the personal...