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"Ragnar Locker Ransomware Targets Energy Sector, Cybereason Suggests"On Saturday, August 20, Greece’s largest natural gas supplier DESFA said it was hit by a cyberattack that impacted the availability of some of its systems. Ragnar Locker hacking group claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack, saying it had…
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"UW-Platteville Faculty, Student Researchers to Create Microgrid Cybersecurity Testbed"A team of University of Wisconsin (UW)-Platteville faculty and student researchers seek to contribute solutions to the growing threat of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. UW-Platteville will soon house a smart microgrid cybersecurity testbed with…
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"Ransomware Attacks Target Government Agencies in Latin America"Several government agencies in Latin America have been targeted in ransomware attacks in the past months, and the latest victims are Chile and the Dominican Republic. Chile's Ministry of Interior recently reported that a government agency had its…
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"DoD Grants Fund Cybersecurity Research for Maritime Industry"The Department of Defense (DoD) has made millions of dollars in grant funding available to a Rhode Island research consortium that will fund cybersecurity and supply chain research for the maritime industry. The DoD designated six new Defense…
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"Migration Policy Org Confirms Cyberattack After Extortion Group Touts Theft"The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) has confirmed that it experienced a cyberattack, which resulted in a data breach. ICMPD has operations in 90 countries, conducting migration-related research, projects, and activities. It…
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"Ransomware Gang Claims Customer Data Stolen in TAP Air Portugal Hack"The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang recently stated that it has exfiltrated customer data in a cyberattack on Portuguese state-owned flag carrier airline TAP Air Portugal. The incident was initially disclosed on August 26, when TAP announced on…
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"Detected Cyber-Threats Surge 52% in 1H 2022"A leading cybersecurity vendor Trend Micro blocked 63 billion threats in the first half of 2022 alone, over 50% more than the same period a year ago. Security researchers at Trend Micro stated that detections of prolific groups such as LockBit and…
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"Collaborative Project Seeks to Protect Agricultural Technology From Cyberattacks"A team of researchers at the University of Nebraska is working on a critical issue in agriculture and automated systems, which is cybersecurity for agricultural machinery and technology. Santosh Pitla, associate professor of advanced machinery systems at…
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"Does Your Cybercrime Prevention Program Work?"KELA surveyed 400 security team members in the US responsible for gathering cybercrime threat intelligence to learn more about whether they are proactively scanning the dark web and other cybercriminal sources, what tools they are using, what gaps exist…
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"Standards Body Publishes Guidelines for IoT Security Testing"A leading industry standards community called the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) has published its first guidelines for the testing of IoT security products in a bid to drive independent benchmarking and certification efforts. AMTSO…
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"REvil Claims Ransomware Attack on Multi-Billion-Dollar Manufacturing Giant Midea Group"The REvil ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an attack on Midea Group, a Chinese electrical appliance manufacturer, and has already published what is suspected to be stolen data. The once-dominant REvil ransomware gang, also known as…
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"Researchers Detail Emerging Cross-Platform BianLian Ransomware Attacks"The operators of the emerging cross-platform BianLian ransomware have increased their command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, indicating an increase in the group's activities. BianLian, which is written in the Go programming language, was discovered in…