Sentences with phrase «cyber attacks targeting»

Major exchanges have lost millions in routine cyber attacks targeting user accounts.

Combined with regulatory uncertainty and a series of cyber attacks targeting cryptos and ICOs, the digital currency market is down more than 50 % from record levels.

The risk of cyber attacks targeting ships» satellite navigation is pushing nations to delve back through history and develop back - up systems with roots in World War Two radio technology.

April 16 (Reuters)- The United States and Britain on Monday warned of a global cyber attack targeting routers and other networking equipment, blaming Russian government - backed hackers for the campaign on government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators.

A relatively unknown cryptocurrency exchange by the name of BitGrail has informed its users of a coordinated cyber attack targeting Nano (XRB) tokens.

Not exact matches

Because startup founders can be slow to install safeguards against cyber attacks, criminals often target new companies.

While old security holes going unpatched was the big reason for cyber incidents last year, more attacks are increasingly targeting connected devices, specifically mobile devices, Mong said.

Without hardline diplomatic support on the cyber attack problem, government agencies and political organizations need to assume they are targets.

Although there are many victims of cyber attacks, Sony's name may become synonymous with corporate losses and embarrassment from careless emails and protection of data as was the case for Target.

The New York Times said on Tuesday its Moscow bureau was targeted by a cyber attack this month but that there was no evidence the hackers, believed to be Russian, were successful.

Recent cyber attacks that disrupted business operations and hospital services in many countries across the world have, however, increased fears that assailants motivated by money or ideology could cripple even more strategic targets such as power and water networks.

Banks are one of the biggest targets for cyber attacks, which have occurred more frequently over the past two years, security experts said.

The National Health Service (NHS) said 16 organisations had been affected by the cyber attack but said it had not been specifically targeted.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

Some security experts said the CIA's possible use of tools from other spy agencies raised the risk of false attribution for targeted cyber attacks by the U.S. intelligence agency.

The ACSC said in a report on Monday that it responded to 734 cyber attacks on «systems of national interest» for the year ended June 30, and the defense industry was a major target.

«Today, however, China is fielding an array of conventionally armed short - range ballistic missiles (SRBMs), as well as ground - and air - launched land - attack cruise missiles (LACMs), special operations forces (SOF), and cyber warfare capabilities to hold targets at risk throughout the region,» the report said.

Election day is a ripe target for cyber attacks.

While most of the news coverage goes to data breaches that hit major corporations, small businesses are frequently the target of cyber attacks as well.

Target disclosed the cyber attack in December, revealing the theft of at least 40 million payment card numbers and 70 million other pieces of customer data.

«A digital currency issued by a central bank would be a global target for cyber attacks, cyber counterfeiting, and cyber theft.

The breach on ABTA is reminder that cyber criminals do not discriminate with their targets and that all organisations large and small in all industries are vulnerable to cyber attacks.

McAffee security experts recently uncovered one of the biggest cyber attacks in history: an extensive hacking job that targeted 72 organizations, including the United Nations, multiple governments and the International Olympic Committee.

Crypto exchanges are routinely the target of sophisticated cyber attacks, a trend expected to intensify as digital currencies rise in value.

A defence policy for our country that targets the new threats that we face from terrorist organisations, cyber attacks and destabilised regions around the world is what we must seek to achieve.

«The Chinese, the Americans and several other countries have cyber commands, proper cyber commands... whose work is always to look at the internet and see which country is trying to target or attack their country.»

With growing risks to the nation's electrical grid from natural disasters and as a potential target for malicious attacks, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should work closely with utility operators and other stakeholders to improve cyber and physical security and resilience, says a new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Krebs on Security, the website of renowned security researcher Brian Krebs, has been the target of a record cyber attack.

Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Mary Elizabeth Winstead were a few of the celebrities who were targeted between November 2012 and August 2014 in a mass cyber attack aimed mostly at female celebrities.

The question of when political violence - including war - is legitimate remains open, as do our ideas of what constitutes a soft or hard target, a notion which has become even more complicated with the advent of cyber attacks and cyber surveillance.

«We expect to see an uptick in 2012 when utilities start to enter the market to cover their phase III obligations,» he said... More broadly, the market has been deflated by security concerns prompted by cyber attacks in January, as well as European Commission energy efficiency plans, which mean that companies need fewer credits to achieve their reduction targets.

This year has already seen suspicions that elections around the world have been targeted by cyber hacks, but the latest large - scale attacks have brought home how big a risk this is to businesses and organisations like the NHS.

In making its recommendation, ISS highlighted the role of the audit and corporate responsibility committees in providing risk oversight and, in the context of Target's business, found these committees should have been more cognizant of the company's exposure to cyber attacks and better prepared.

As high - profile data breaches continue to make news, the threat of cyber attacks and data theft to businesses is growing — and law firms are becoming an increasingly common target as cyber criminals recognize the potentially lucrative opportunity to be had there.

Computer systems at law firms, governments, companies, courts, and high - profile organizations have been targets of increasing numbers of cyber attacks as perpetrators become more sophisticated in their ability to steal information.

In fact, cyber security has become major news, with recent attacks on Alberta Health Services and the Target retail franchise.

Our Calgary brokerage team provides unique expertise in handling the complexities of cyber attacks, cyber crime and even cyber terrorism, and can help ensure you're protected should your company's data or IT infrastructure be targeted.

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Insurers are raising premiums for the cyber insurance coverage that they provide Over the past two years, companies in the United States have been targeted by aggressive cyber attacks.

This produces a sort of attentional denial of service attack (a type of cyber attack meant to make a resource unavailable to a target), making it difficult to pay attention to real messages.

Friday's sanctions, which target Russian security services, energy czars and weapons companies, come in response to Russia's «malign activity across the world,» a senior administration official said, noting Russia's occupation of Crimea in Ukraine, support of the Bashar Assad dictatorship in Syria, subversion of Western democracies and continued belligerent cyber attacks.

In addition to the debate over terrorism and targeted killing, he has written on the Russian cyber attack on the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton and the intervention in Libya, Saudi influence on global Islam, the National Security Agency and Edward Snowden's leaked documents, WikiLeaks and confidential State Department cables, and the Obama's administration's prosecution of leaks of classified information.

Now, according to reports by a US cyber security firm, SecureWorks, the group may be plotting to use targeted email and phishing attacks on well - known people in the cryptocurrency space.

A late - 2017 state - sponsored cyber attacks by North Korea against South Korea not only targeted cryptocurrency users and exchanges, but also college students interested in foreign affairs, new research from Recorded Future has found.

North Korea shows no signs of letting up on its cyber war against South Korea with state - sponsored attacks against users of cryptocurrencies and exchanges that also are taking aim at new targets — college students, research released Tuesday by Recorded Future found.

Quoting the Europol release: «The leader of the crime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks targeting over a 100 financial institutions worldwide has been arrested in Alicante, Spain, after a complex investigation conducted by the Spanish National Police, with the support of Europol, the US FBI, the Romanian, Moldovan, Belarussian and Taiwanese authorities and private cyber security companies.»

tripwire.com - Targeted cyber attacks can be dissected into different phases such as Infection, Command and Control (C&C), Lateral Movement, and Data Exfiltration.

securityaffairs.co - While US - CERT warns of cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in the energy sectors, Russia - linked Sofacy APT is targeting a government agency in Europe.

The DHS report describes the attacks as «a multi-stage intrusion campaign by Russian government cyber actors» and claims that those behind the attacks are targeting two types of entities.