A targeted cyberattack against Britain’s national healthcare system could lead to larger-scale disruption causing the organization several years to recover, the U.K. government warns.
KELA notes that although hacktivism appears to be about causing service disruption through DDoS attacks or reputation damage via data leaks, the modus operandi of these threat groups encompasses a broader scope of activities.
A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95%.
Cyberattacks on governments and public entities worldwide surged by 40% from March to May compared to the previous quarter, according to researchers at the cybersecurity firm BlackBerry.
As a founding member of the Network Resilience Coalition, Cisco appreciates CISA’s shared commitment to driving focused attention and investment in efforts to secure and maintain existing critical networked technologies.
To evade detection by Play Store systems, the threat actors responsible for SharkBot have adopted the now common strategy of releasing versions with limited functionality on Google Play, concealing their apps’ suspicious nature.
The new additions to the victims’ list bring the headcount to 514 organizations and more than 36 million individuals, according to Emsisoft threat researchers. It may take months if not years for the full impact and costs to become clear.
This guidance is the latest released by the Five Eyes organization, which consists of government cybersecurity organizations from the U.S., New Zealand, the U.K., Australia and Canada.
The hack caused chaos in medical facilities in several states. In Connecticut, the emergency departments at Manchester Memorial and Rockville General hospital were closed for much of the day and patients were diverted to other nearby medical centers.
Tenable also shared proof of concept exploit code and information on the steps required to find vulnerable connector hostnames and how to craft the POST requests to interact with the unsecured API endpoints.