Cyber Attack

Swiss authorities discovered 65,000 leaked government documents containing classified information and sensitive personal data. The leak occurred after a ransomware attack on an IT vendor last year. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland recently released a report analyzing the data stolen during a cyber attack in May. The …

Microsoft updated a security flaw in its AppLocker software, but the North Korean Lazarus Group was able to use it for a cyberattack before the update. Avast researchers found the flaw in Microsoft software under the CVE-2024-21338. This flaw allowed Lazarus to use an updated version of its own malware …

The government of Malawi has stopped giving out passports after a cyber-attack on the immigration service’s computer network. President Chakwera informed members of parliament about a significant breach of national security involving the department being targeted. He said the hackers demanded a ransom but the president said the government won’t …

“sebacenter.xyz” is now a name of threat for personal identifiable information (PII) for the people of Bangladesh. By using only the site, miscreants are making and distributing fake paper of TIN, NID, NID info, BMET training, Surokkha, Death and birth register and duplicate land tax paper instantly. Even, if any …

Last year, more than 1.5 million UK companies were attacked by cybercriminals, causing them to lose over £31.5 billion ($40 billion), according to a report from business ISP Beaming. A company surveyed 500 business leaders in 2023 to find out about security breaches that affected their organization. They were asked …

Bank of America is warning customers about a data breach that exposed their personal information due to a hack at one of its service providers, Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), last year. The customer’s personal information that was exposed in the security breach includes their names, addresses, social security numbers, dates …

Kenya experienced more than 1.2 billion cyber threats in the three months leading up to December. 123 million threats were detected in the previous quarter, showing a 943% increase from the previous period. The Communications Authority of Kenya’s latest report says that the increase in cyber threats is due to …

Advania, a Nordic IT provider, had a cybersecurity incident affecting at least 60 of its customers in Sweden, including healthcare centers. The company admitted a “security incident” in its public statement. In a statement the company said, “During the afternoon of Tuesday, February 6th, we discovered an anomaly in a …

On Feb. 2, 2024, the United States imposed sanctions on six Iranian officials for cyber-attacks in the US and other countries. The sanctions were in response to the Jan. 28, 2024, attack on a US outpost in northeast Jordan near the border with Syria and Iraq, where three American soldiers …

Cloudflare disclosed that its internal Atlassian server was breached by a suspected ‘nation-state attacker’. The attacker gained access to Cloudflare’s Confluence wiki, Jira bug database, and Bitbucket source code management system. The attacker first accessed Cloudflare’s self-hosted Atlassian server on November 14, and then accessed the company’s Confluence and Jira …