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2022 Ukraine cyberattacks. During the prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, multiple cyberattacks against Ukraine were recorded, as well as some attacks on Russia. The first major cyberattack took place on 14 January 2022, and took down more than a dozen of Ukraine's government websites. [1]
British Library cyberattack. Entrance gate to the British Library on Euston Road, St Pancras, London, looking towards the Newton statue. In October 2023 Rhysida, a hacker group, attacked the online information systems of the British Library. They demanded a ransom of 20 bitcoin, at the time around £ 596,000, to restore services and return the ...
The Electoral Commission of the United Kingdom suffered a data breach in 2021–2022. [1] [2] [3] In March 2024 it was reported that the UK security services had identified the Chinese government as the perpetrator of the data breach attack. [4] In connection with the breach, the UK government has sanctioned two individuals and a company linked ...
Cyberattacks by country. In Q2 of 2013, Akamai Technologies reported that Indonesia topped China with a portion 38 percent of cyber attacks, an increase from the 21 percent portion in the previous quarter. China was at 33 percent and the US at 6.9 percent. 79 percent of attacks came from the Asia Pacific region.
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
July 29: a group suspected coming from China launched hacker attacks on the website of Vietnam Airlines. August 13: The Shadow Brokers (TSB) started publishing several leaks containing hacking tools from the National Security Agency (NSA), including several zero-day exploits.
September 18, 2024 at 6:07 PM. Chance Swaim/Wichita Eagle. A ransomware attack that crippled the city of Wichita’s network for more than a month starting in May was limited to a Wichita Police ...
Lapsus$. Lapsus$, stylised as LAPSUS$ and classified by Microsoft as Strawberry Tempest, [1] is an international extortion -focused [2] hacker group known for its various cyberattacks against companies and government agencies. [3][4] The group was active in several countries, and has had its members arrested in Brazil and the UK in 2022. [5]