Sentences with phrase «malicious cyberattacks»
«When we see malicious cyberattacks, whether from the Kremlin or other nation - state actors, we are going to push back,» Rob Joyce, a special assistant to the president and the cybersecurity coordinator for the National Security Council, said in joint conference call with journalists by senior officials in Washington and London.
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«We have entered a new era of warfare, witnessing a destructive and deadly mix of conventional military might and malicious cyberattacks,» said British defense secretary Gavin Williamson.
«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.
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And, here again, this concern doesn't even begin to consider the danger presented by malicious or criminal cyberattacks and other forms of corporate espionage that increase in frequency and severity every day.
The most famous example is last year's WannaCry cyberattack, in which North Korean hackers used malicious software stolen from the National Security Agency to attack tens of thousands of people in more than 70 countries.
BOSTON (Reuters)- The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch a destructive cyberattack in the United States, following a devastating breach last week at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
The components of the global cyberattack that seized hundreds of thousands of computer systems may be more complex than originally believed, a Trump administration official said, and experts warned that the effects of the malicious software could linger for some time.
An unprecedented «ransomware» cyberattack that has already hit tens of thousands of victims in 150 countries could wreak greater havoc as more malicious variations appear and people return to their desks tomorrow and power up computers at the start of the workweek.
Smartphones are increasingly being targeted for cyberattacks through tactics like malicious apps, scareware notifications and insecure Wi - Fi connections.
Cyberattacks infiltrating the security parameters of global financial institutions have always zeroed on North Korea as the penultimate mastermind behind all such malicious activities.
Brian Dye told the Wall Street Journal that antivirus software now catches only 45 % of «cyberattacks», so this figure includes other types of attacks that aren't simply malicious software.
Marcus Hutchins, a young British researcher credited with derailing a global cyberattack in May, was arrested for allegedly creating and distributing malicious software designed to collect bank - account passwords, U.S. authorities said.