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#1 US, UK Say Russia Targeted Officials in Political Cyber Campaign

Dec 8 2023 // The US and UK have launched a coordinated effort to disrupt a longtime alleged Russian government hacking campaign aimed at what they say is an attempt to undermine democratic processes in both their countries.The UK...

#2 Ransomware Prompts Multistate Hospital Chain to Divert Some ER Patients

Nov 30 2023 // A ransomware attack has prompted a healthcare chain that operates 30 hospitals in six states to divert patients from at least some of its emergency rooms to other hospitals, while putting certain elective procedures on...

#3 Viewpoint: How Corporate Help Desks Became the Weak Spot in Cyber Defenses

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...

#4 Breaches by Iran-Affiliated Hackers Spanned Multiple States

Dec 4 2023 // A small western Pennsylvania water authority was just one of multiple organizations breached in the United States by Iran-affiliated hackers who targeted a specific industrial control device because it is Israeli-made,...

#5 Lockbit Hackers’ Swagger on Display After Police Leak Identities Online

Feb 21 2024 // One of the world’s biggest criminal hacking gangs woke up on Tuesday to a startling discovery: Law enforcement, after taking over their main website on Monday, were now threatening to reveal their personal details...

#6 23andMe Says Health Data Was Included in Hack That Compromised 6.9 Million Users

Dec 5 2023 // Some 6.9 million 23andMe customers had their data compromised after an anonymous hacker accessed user profiles and posted them for sale on the internet earlier this year, the company said on Monday.The compromised data...

#7 Clorox Audit Revealed Cybersecurity Flaws at Its Plants in 2020

Mar 27 2024 // A few years before a 2023 cyberattack disrupted manufacturing at one of the largest US producers of disinfectants ahead of flu season, an audit warned of systemic cybersecurity flaws within the company’s production...

#8 Hackers Stole About $1.7 Billion This Year From Crypto Projects

Dec 12 2023 // The amount of funds crypto projects lost to hackers has declined by about half to around $1.7 billion so far this year, amid improved security measures and an uptick in law enforcement actions.Even with any additional...

#9 US Officials Say Russian Hackers Are Launching Potential SolarWinds-Style Operations

Dec 14 2023 // U.S. officials say that Russian hackers are targeting servers hosting outdated versions of software made by the Czech tech company JetBrains for potential SolarWinds-style espionage operations.In a statement released on...

#10 Okta Says Hackers Stole Data for All Customer Support Users

Nov 29 2023 // Okta Inc. has discovered that hackers who breached its network two months ago stole information on all users of its customer support system — a scope far greater than the 1% of customers the company had previously said...

#11 Hackers Grow More Sinister and Brazen in Hunt for Bigger Ransoms

Jun 26 2024 // A hack on a London hospital has left hundreds of millions of health records exposed and forced doctors to reschedule life-altering cancer treatments. In North America, a gang tried auctioning off data about LendingTree...

#12 Russia’s LockBit Disrupted But Not Dead, Hacking Experts Warn

Feb 22 2024 // Two arrests. Twenty-eight servers seized. And 1,000 decryption keys obtained that can help hacking victims worldwide get their data back.The takedown announced Tuesday of the Russia-linked hacking gang LockBit, which by...

#13 Cancer Clinics Face Cash Crunch After Hack Rocks US Health Care

Mar 13 2024 // Doctors across the US are stretching to keep their practices afloat as a debilitating cyberattack on a once little-known company at the center of the health-care system continues to cause havoc.The Feb. 21 attack against...

#14 States and Congress Wrestle With Cybersecurity at Water Utilities

Jan 3 2024 // The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack.It had never had outside help in protecting its systems from a cyberattack, either at its...

#15 Hack That Paralyzed US Health Care Turns Up Scrutiny on Insurer

Apr 30 2024 // When a cyberattack on Change Healthcare paralyzed much of the US health-care system, some lawmakers saw it as proof its parent company, UnitedHealth Group Inc., was too big.UnitedHealth Chief Executive Andrew Witty saw it...

#16 How a Small South Dakota College Became a Hub for Cyber Job Creation

Jul 31 2024 // MADISON, S.D. (AP) — A seed planted by South Dakota legislative and higher education leaders four decades ago has blossomed into one of the nation’s top high-tech universities located in a small city in the rural...

#17 Why Near-Miss Cyberattack Put US Officials and Tech Industry on Edge

Apr 8 2024 // German software developer Andres Freund was running some detailed performance tests last month when he noticed odd behavior in a little-known program. What he found when he investigated has sent shudders across the...

#18 Tiny Texas City Repels Russia-Tied Hackers Eyeing Water System

Apr 22 2024 // When Mike Cypert got the call that utilities in remote Texas communities were being hacked, he raced across his office to unplug the computer that ran his city’s water system.Hale Center is a dusty, cotton-growing...

#19 Ex-First Republic Engineer in California Gets Prison for Cloud Hack

Dec 12 2023 // A former First Republic Bank cloud engineer in San Francisco was sentenced to two years in prison for vandalizing the company’s computer network after he was fired in 2020.Miklos Daniel Brody logged into the...

#20 Hackers Roil Entire Industries With Attacks on IT Supply Chain

Mar 14 2024 // Across Paraguay, hackers knocked out online services provided by the foreign ministry and companies. In Sweden, they crippled the payroll and human resources systems of more than 100 government bodies, including the...