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An editorial in the Chinese state-run Global Times suggested a need for decreased dependency on Western firms, stating that reliance on "top companies to lead network security efforts" can introduce security risks and noting the perceived irony of the United States leading global security efforts while major companies monopolise the industry. [264]
Niconico implemented new security measures after the attack as well as rebuilding its systems. [18] On August 6, Kadokawa's investigation revealed that a phishing attack was the possible cause of the attack. It also confirmed that 254,241 people's information was leaked during the attack.
In January 2024, a data breach dubbed the "mother of all breaches" was uncovered. [6] Over 26 billion records, including some from Twitter, Adobe, Canva, LinkedIn, and Dropbox, were found in the database. [7] [8] No organization immediately claimed responsibility. [9] In August 2024, one of the largest data security breaches was revealed.
China perceives cyber warfare as a deterrent to nuclear weapons, possessing the ability for greater precision, leaving fewer casualties, and allowing for long-ranged attacks. On March 2, 2021, Microsoft released an emergency security update to patch four security vulnerabilities that had been used by Hafnium, a Chinese nation-state-sponsored ...
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.
In March 2024, the Government Communications Security Bureau and New Zealand Government accused the Chinese government via APT40 of breaching its parliamentary network in 2021. [60] In July 2024, government agencies from eight nations, including the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre , released a joint advisory on APT40.
State security officials and American corporate security officers were concerned that these attacks might be a prelude to hacking of election infrastructure during the elections of the subsequent month, like similar incidents during the 2016 United States elections and other attacks; [162] there was, however, no evidence that they performed ...
In the first six months of 2017, two billion data records were stolen or impacted by cyber attacks, and ransomware payments reached US$2 billion, double that in 2016. [6] In 2020, with the increase of remote work as an effect of the COVID-19 global pandemic, cybersecurity statistics reveal a huge increase in hacked and breached data. [7]