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[8] [9] The same year, he was named as one of the SANS Institute's Top Cybersecurity Journalist Award Winners. [10] In 2013, his Forbes.com story "Meet The Hackers Who Sell Spies The Tools To Crack Your PC (And Get Paid Six-Figure Fees)" won "The Single Best Blog Post of the Year" award from the Security Bloggers Network. [11]
SolarWinds, a Texas-based provider of network monitoring software to the U.S. federal government, had shown several security shortcomings prior to the attack. [53] [54] SolarWinds did not employ a chief information security officer or senior director of cybersecurity.
The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia were a series of cyberattacks that began on 27 April 2007 and targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers, and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn.
In October 2023, Wired reported that a sample of data points from 23andMe accounts were exposed on BreachForums, a black-hat hacking crime forum. [1]23andMe confirmed to TechCrunch that because of an opt-in feature that allows DNA-related relatives to contact each other, the true number of people exposed was 6.9 million, nearly half of 23andMe’s 14 million reported customers.
Moonlight Maze was a data breach of classified U.S. government information lasting from 1996 to 1998. [1] It represents one of the first widely known cyber espionage campaigns in world history.
Sandworm is an advanced persistent threat operated by Military Unit 74455, a cyberwarfare unit of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service. [3] Other names for the group, given by cybersecurity researchers, include APT44, [4] Telebots, Voodoo Bear, IRIDIUM, Seashell Blizzard, [5] and Iron Viking.
The malware has been around since at least June 2019. Cyclops Blink was first reported on in February of 2022 after security advisories published by the United Kingdom's National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) and the United States' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) detailed its presence in the wild.
The group emerged in the summer of 2021. [7] It has disproportionately targeted the education sector. Research from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks found that Vice Society had listed 33 schools on its data leak site in 2022 alone. [8]