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The White House announced that the cyberattack was likely conducted by a Russian organization, [7] and news outlets reported that REvil was culpable. [16] As of June 2, REvil had not taken credit for the attack, [17] and the FBI was conducting an investigation into its origins.
31 October: The Library confirms publicly that the outage is the consequence of a cyberattack. [9] It launches an investigation alongside the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and other cybersecurity specialists. [10] 16 November: An attempt at digital extortion, also known as a ransomware attack, is confirmed by the Library. [9]
Strategic: Usually tailored to non-technical audiences, intelligence on general risks associated with cyberthreats. The goal is to deliver, in the form of white papers and reports, a detailed analysis of current and projected future risks to the business, as well as the potential consequences of threats to help leaders prioritize their responses.
The 2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach was a cyberattack against American bank JPMorgan Chase that is believed to have compromised data associated with over 83 million accounts—76 million households (approximately two out of three households in the country) and 7 million small businesses. [1]
Operation Aurora was a series of cyber attacks performed by advanced persistent threats such as the Elderwood Group based in Beijing, China, with associations with the People's Liberation Army. [2] First disclosed publicly by Google (one of the victims) on January 12, 2010, by a weblog post, [ 1 ] the attacks began in mid-2009 and continued ...
The WannaCry ransomware attack was a worldwide cyberattack in May 2017 by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. [4]
The Anthem medical data breach was a medical data breach of information held by Elevance Health, known at that time as Anthem Inc. . On February 4, 2015, Anthem, Inc. disclosed that criminal hackers had broken into its servers and had potentially stolen over 37.5 million records that contain personally identifiable information from its servers. [1]
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.