Russia accused the United States on Tuesday of leading a massive campaign of “cyber aggression” behind hundreds of thousands of malicious attacks a day while Russia has troops in Ukraine. The foreign ministry said media, critical infrastructure and life support systems had been targeted, with the unprecedented scale pointing at U.S. and NATO-trained special forces […]
Cyberattack
Ukraine’s state-owned telecommunications company Ukrtelecom experienced a disruption in internet service on Monday after a “powerful” cyberattack, according to Ukrainian government officials and company representatives. The incident is the latest hacking attack against Ukrainian internet services since Russian military forces invaded in late February. “Today, the enemy launched a powerful cyberattack against Ukrtelecom’s IT-infrastructure,” said […]
As the war escalates between Russia and Ukraine, the nation’s banks and government agencies were stuck with disruptive cyberattacks for the second time in two weeks. Last week, several banks and government agencies were affected by denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), which resulted in knocking down their websites’ security and functionalities. Now, a similar set of attacks […]
Popular investment and trading platform Robinhood stated that “limited information” had been stolen during a cyber-attack targeting the company last week but highlighted that among them were thousands of personal phone numbers. Robinhood said on Tuesday, that the list obtained by the hackers, which contained email addresses for about five million people and full names […]
On Friday, Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski informed local media that the university was affected by the series of global security breaches that crippled businesses throughout the world. Several university units employed Kaseya – U.S.-based software company – that was breached in early July in a worldwide ransomware campaign. According to Owczarski, the virus distributed […]