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The first major cyberattack took place on 14 January 2022, and took down more than a dozen of Ukraine's government websites. [1] According to Ukrainian officials, around 70 government websites, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , the Cabinet of Ministers , and the National and Defense Council (NSDC), were attacked.
A global wave of cyberattacks and data breaches began in January 2021 after four zero-day exploits were discovered in on-premises Microsoft Exchange Servers, giving attackers full access to user emails and passwords on affected servers, administrator privileges on the server, and access to connected devices on the same network.
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.
Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neil said Optus was at fault for the attack, refuting Optus's argument the attack was complicated. O'Neil also stated the attack should not have happened, stating: "Responsibility for the security breach rests with Optus[,] and I want to note that the breach is of a nature that we should not expect to see in a large telecommunications provider ...
From late November to early December 2021, [1] numerous accountholders of BDO Unibank (Banco de Oro; BDO) lost their money through unauthorized bank transfers.The funds were noted to have been transferred to multiple Unionbank accounts under the name of a certain "Mark Nagoyo".
The second cyber-attack was carried out on 18 May 2021. [4] The website of the Chinese Embassy operating in Sri Lanka, The websites of the Health Ministry, Energy Ministry and the Rajarata University websites were affected by this cyberattack. [5] This cyber attack conducted by a group called 'Tamil Eelam Cyber Force'. [6]
On 13 May the cybersecurity provider for the HSE emailed the Security Operations team that there had been unhandled threats on at least 16 systems since 7 May. [13] The Security Operations team had the server team restart servers. [13] The HSE was alerted to the attack at 4am on 14 May 2021. [14]
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