Reuters reports: Russian airline Aeroflot cancelled dozens of flights on Monday after what it called a failure in its information systems, and a shadowy hacking group claimed responsibility for what it said was a crippling cyberattack. The national carrier did not provide further details about the cause of the problem or how long it would take […]
The Register reports: Aviation insiders say Serbia’s national airline, Air Serbia, was forced to delay issuing payslips to staff as a result of a cyberattack it is battling. Internal memos, seen by The Register, dated July 10 told staff: “Given the current situation and the ongoing cyberattacks, for security reasons, we will postpone the distribution of […]
The Wall Street Journal reports: A cyberattack on the Washington Post compromised email accounts of several journalists and was potentially the work of a foreign government, company officials told some affected staffers in recent days, according to people familiar with the situation. Staffers were told the intrusions compromised journalists’ Microsoft accounts and could have granted the intruder […]
‘ConnectWise recently learned of suspicious activity within our environment that we believe was tied to a sophisticated nation state actor, which affected a very small number of ScreenConnect customers‘ — ConnectWise statement The Record reports: IT management software company ConnectWise said it is investigating a nation-state attack on its systems that impacted some of its […]
LIGA reports: Russian hacking group RomCom attempted to hack into the accounts of employees of the UK Ministry of Defence under the guise of journalists. The attack was unsuccessful, but overall, there have been twice as many hacking attacks on the country’s defence department in the past two years as in the previous similar period, […]
China has accused a hacker group they allege is backed by Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party of orchestrating cyberattacks on up to 1,000 sensitive mainland networks The South China Morning Post reports: The claim was made public on May 20 by the Guangzhou city police, who said the group used “rudimentary and crude” methods to launch widespread attacks from […]
The conflict between Pakistan and India escalated sharply over the past week. Pakistan has now launched strikes against Indian military bases, claiming retaliation for strikes by India. Strikes in cyberspace also continue. Radio Pakistan reports: According to details, the official website of the BJP has been hacked. Amongst the hacked websites are the Crime Research Investigation Agency, Mahanagar […]
Politico reports: A Russian hacker group attacked several Romanian government and presidential candidates’ websites on Sunday as the country votes for its next president, Romanian news outlet G4media reported. The attack, by the group known as DDOSIA/NoName057, hit the website of the Romanian Constitutional Court, the main government portal, the Romanian foreign ministry site and the […]
Jagran reports: The Army College of Nursing website has been allegedly hacked by a Pakistan-based hacker group called Team Insane PK, days after the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. The hacker attack took place two days after India announced five strict measures against Pakistan including the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty and declaring […]
Taiwan News reports: Shipping company Wan Hai Lines’ website was taken offline by hackers on Friday and remained down as of Saturday afternoon. Wan Hai confirmed the cyberattack, though it said the incident had no significant impact on operations, per Yahoo News. The company added that no breach of internal or employee information had occurred. Wan […]
