Sentences with phrase «cyberattack targeting»

On Wednesday, crypto assets plunged double digits on speculation that Binance may have been subject to an orchestrated cyberattack targeting altcoins.

On Wednesday, crypto assets plunged double digits on speculation that Binance may have been subject to an orchestrated cyberattack targeting altcoins.

Attempted cyberattacks targeting the electric industry are a daily occurrence, but this new incident, possibly in Saudi Arabia, highlights how much more sophisticated hackers are becoming.

In a separate alert, Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI warned of Russian government - backed cyberattacks targeting the energy grid and other critical national infrastructure.

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Both U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies issued warnings on Monday of Russian cyberattacks that could target government offices, small businesses, and individuals, according to The New York Times.

The new reporting requirements come after a year - long Senate investigation ending in May 2013 that found defense contractors who transported troops and supplies were the target of numerous cyberattacks.

• An 18 - page presidential memo shows Obama ordering intelligence officials to draw up a list of overseas targets for cyberattacks.

At the S4 security conference on Thursday, researchers from the industrial control company Schneider Electric, whose equipment Triton targeted, presented deep analysis of the malware — only the third recorded cyberattack against industrial equipment.

The year since hackers broke into Target and accessed millions of credit and debit card numbers has been a brutal one for cyberattacks.

Home Depot's cyberattack put 56 million credit cards at risk, significantly more than Target's breach.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

An Austrian aerospace parts manufacturer — FACC, has been the target of a cyberattack that resulted in cybercriminals making away with a staggering $ 55 million from...

On the economic front, meanwhile, there are concerns about allowing unfettered investment by Chinese state - owned companies given that China has been accused of cyberattacks that have targeted Canadian government departments and Canadian firms.

The Trump administration accused Russia of engineering a series of cyberattacks that targeted American and European nuclear power plants and water and electric systems, and could have sabotaged or shut power plants off at will.

A Russian cyberattack that targeted Democratic politicians was bigger than it first appeared and breached the private email accounts of more than 100 party officials and groups, officials with knowledge of the case said.

In fact, she's targeted by a terrorist who's using her phone to launch a cyberattack on the power grid.

Smartphones are increasingly being targeted for cyberattacks through tactics like malicious apps, scareware notifications and insecure Wi - Fi connections.

Paige Schaffer, President and COO of Generali Global Assistance's Identity and Digital Protection Services Global Unit, commented on today's news, «For years, the financial services sector has been a primary target for cyberattacks largely due to the tremendous value of the information that these organizations hold as well as personal funds impacted.

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has predicted that «because of the destructive potential of these types of breaches, critical electric and other utility infrastructure will remain highly - prized targets for future cyberattacks.»

The alert elaborates on «Russian government actions targeting U.S. Government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors» — a goal consistent with suspected Russian cyberattacks like last year's NotPetya malware which focused on industrial targets and past hacks of energy systems in Ukraine.

«We are dealing with a hostage situation,» Atlanta's Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told reporters this week as her government, the target of a malicious cyberattack, ground to a halt.

In the age of cyberattacks and terrorism, we need to look for policies that seek to further insulate our noncombatants rather than serve them up as the only viable targets for our enemies to attack in the hope of incurring real costs to American society.

Japan - based cryptocurrency exchange, Coincheck, known for being a target of a cyberattack in January 2018 that led to the loss of 500 million XEM tokens, is also delisting several trading pairs.

Notorious North Korean hacking outfit Lazarus Group was behind cyberattacks that targeted South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges and users...

Due to the amount of personal information and large sums of money exchanged in the course of real estate transactions, the real estate industry is a particularly attractive target for cyberattacks.