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Lazio Region in Italy hit by ransomware attack
2021-09-10The frequency and sophistication of ransomware attacks has increased significantly since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, targeting healthcare services, educational organisations, governmental institutions and more. In 2021 this upwards trend has not slowed down, making ransomware one of the most prominent threats in the cyber landscape.
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#OpVendetta
2021-07-29The majority of cyberattacks we hear about nowadays are carried out by bad actors for the purpose of financial gain. There is however, a small number of hackers who put to use their skills not for financial gain, but to promote a political, social or religious agenda. This is known as hacktivism, from the combination of the word ‘hacking’ and ‘activism’, and it involves the use of computer-based techniques to exercise civil disobedience or disruption, in an effort to bring attention to a political or social issue, and encourage change.
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Is RockYou2021 really a password leak?
2021-07-06Reports on a new password leak made headlines at the beginning of June 2021 and led to widespread panic over the security implications of the leak, dubbed the largest in history with 8.4 billion compromised passwords.
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Ransomware attack results in the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline
2021-06-15The cyberattack that at the beginning of May targeted and caused the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the US, was a powerful example of the threat posed by the rising number of ransomware attacks, and the detrimental effect they can have not only on businesses but on national critical infrastructure.
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The correlation between the global spread of COVID-19, cyberattacks and the amount of compromised data leaked on the dark web
2021-05-18The COVID-19 pandemic have forced businesses, governmental organisations, and private individuals to quickly shift the way they conduct daily activities. While technology has greatly aided during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing people to stay connected, conduct business and access entertainment online, it has also brought a set of new challenges, in addition to exacerbating pre-existing ones. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of cyberattacks worldwide has increased significantly, leading experts to define the current situation as a ‘cyberpandemic’.
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UPSURGE IN ONLINE PERSONAL DATA THEFT (+56.7%): HALF OF THE STOLEN ACCOUNTS ARE RELATED TO ENTERTAINMENT, GAMING AND ONLINE STREAMING SITES
2021-05-05Half of the stolen accounts are related to entertainment, gaming and online streaming sites Data thefts on social networks have seen a significant increase, reaching 31.8%. Email addresses and passwords are the most vulnerable data, with corporate accounts seeing a +27.8% increase in breaches. On the dark web, credit card numbers are almost always accompanied by the Card Verification Value and expiry date (98.6% of cases).
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How valuable is your information to hackers on the Dark Web?
2021-04-16On the Dark Web, different types of compromised information hold different monetary values, and the pricing scheme of data is influenced by a range of factors.
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Creeper: the first computer virus
2021-03-18The idea of a computer virus was first theorised by the mathematician John von Neumann in 1949, when he envisioned the possibility that a “mechanical organism”, such as a program, could reproduce itself and infect multiple hosts. The title of the first computer virus in history is attributed to a program called Creeper, created by Bob Thomas from BBN Technologies in 1971.
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