Gas stations in multiple U.S. states ran out of gas on Monday after hackers attacked a pipeline that runs from Texas to New Jersey. Stations in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia were out of fuel after customers rushed to fill vehicles following the hack of Colonial Pipeline. Approximately seven percent of stations…
US Government Working to Aid Top Fuel Pipeline Operator After Cyberattack
The White House was working closely with top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline on Sunday to help it recover from a ransomware attack that forced the company to shut a critical fuel network supplying populous eastern states. The attack is one of the most disruptive digital ransom schemes reported and has prompted calls from…
Authorities Investigating Potential Cyberattack on Australian Parliament
Australia’s leading cybersecurity body is investigating a major disruption that saw Parliament’s email network shut down. It comes after media conglomerate Nine Network confirmed it was targeted in a cyberattack over the weekend. Assistant Defence Minister Andrew Hastie said the issue was linked to an external service provider to the Department of Parliamentary Services’ (DPS)…
EU Banking Regulator Hit by Suspected Chinese Hackers
March 9, 2021
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The European Banking Authority (EBA) is the latest victim of a large-scale cyber-hacking attack connected to the Chinese regime against Microsoft’s email and calendar server. Early last week, Microsoft announced via a blog post that Hafnium, a state-sponsored hacking group operating from China, exploited flaws in its Exchange Server software. Three versions of the software…
More Than 20,000 US Organizations Compromised Through Microsoft Flaw
WASHINGTON—More than 20,000 U.S. organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp.’s email software, a person familiar with the U.S. government’s response said on Friday. The hacking has already reached more places than all of the tainted code downloaded from SolarWinds Corp., the company at the heart…
Mumbai’s Electrical Blackout: Chinese Gray-Area Warfare?
Commentary Let’s start with relevant facts. Mumbai is India’s largest city (20 million residents), its major financial center (India’s central bank is located there) and the capital of the state of Maharashtra, a financial powerhouse unto itself. Those facts alone make Mumbai a target for any group seeking to weaken India, much less wage war…
Chinese Hackers Target Indian Vaccine Makers, Says Security Firm
NEW DELHI—A Chinese state-backed hacking group has in recent weeks targeted the IT systems of two Indian vaccine makers whose coronavirus shots are being used in the country’s immunization campaign, cyber intelligence firm Cyfirma told Reuters. Rivals China and India have both sold or gifted COVID-19 shots to many countries. India produces more than 60…
Hackers Access Personal, Banking Info of TransLink Employees in Ransomware Attack
Hackers accessed the personal and banking information of TransLink employees during a cyberattack that targeted the company’s IT infrastructure earlier this month. The hackers “accessed and may have copied files from a restricted network drive,” according to an internal email by Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) to their employees. CMBC is the transit service company…
Krebs: SolarWinds Cyberattack ‘Happened On My Watch’
Former senior cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs said Sunday that the cyberattack against SolarWinds technology, which caused a breach of U.S. government systems, “happened on my watch.” Krebs, who prior to his recent dismissal by President Donald Trump served as director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told CNN’s Jake…
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