Not exact matches
The latter half of 2017
saw multiple ransomware
attacks: credit agency Equifax targeted in September with a ransom demand for $ 2.3 million, the Sacramento Regional Transit system in November to the tune of a single bitcoin, and the county government of Mecklenburg, North Carolina, getting hit in December with
hackers demanding a payment of two bitcoins.
See: Graphic Science: Data Theft:
Hackers Attack
See also more detail, including speculation about the claim of responsibility by a lone Iranian
hacker Web Browsers and Comodo Disclose A Successful Certificate Authority
Attack, Perhaps From Iran Freedom to Tinker
Look up statistics and you would
see that Ebay, Amazon, various banking institutions, and none other than MS, are the biggest commercial targets for
hackers, and in particular for DDoS
attacks.
Recently,
hacker cabal, Anonymous, threatened to deliver «the biggest
attack you've ever
seen» on Sony over their court - case with fellow
hacker, George «Geohot» Hotz.
The Toyota Prius,
seen here at the New York International Auto Show in March, was one of the cars security experts Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller showed to be susceptible to
attacks by
hackers.
Internet security experts recommend that even though users will not
see any new features after installing the update, they should still update their device with the latest security patch to prevent
hackers from
attacking their devices.
Armed with plenty of tools, such as compromised IoT devices, it's likely that we'll
see hackers make use of ransomware and DDoS
attacks to cause major distractions.
According to a new report released by security researchers the latest
attack has
seen hackers use double cryptocurrency miners to exploit a vulnerability in the Oracle server to spread two cryptocurrency miners simultaneously.
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Independent security journalist Brian Krebs took a deep dive on the proof - of - concept
attack, which he
saw demonstrated informally at the DEF CON 24
hacker conference in Las Vegas earlier this month.