- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 26th, 2016
Malware Shuts Down German Nuclear Power Plant on Chernobyl's 30th Anniversary
Malware incident branded an accident, not an attack
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 20th, 2016
UK Officials Mistakenly Leak NATO Military Manual
Two files get switched in an email, disaster ensues
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 13th, 2016
Swedish Air Space Shut Down by Cyber-Attacks, Officials Blame Russia
Swedish officials blame downtime on solar flares
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 6th, 2016
New Record Set for Layer 7 DDoS Attacks by Nitol Botnet
Nitol botnet carries out huge 8.7 Gbps Layer 7 DDoS attack
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 5th, 2016
Ransomware Epidemic Makes Two New Victims, Hospitals in California and Indiana
Ransomware infections are out of control, highly-efficient against hospitals, the bigger the hospital, the better
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 31st, 2016
Hackers Seeking Insider Trading Information Breach US Law Firms
Attacks took place in 2015, US officials still investigating
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 31st, 2016
Toy Maker Mattel Loses $3M in BEC Scam, Then Fights for It and Gets It Back
Chinese bank holiday stops the crooks from getting the money
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 28th, 2016
Hardware-Based Keyloggers Found in the Library of a Canadian University
Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, affected
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 27th, 2016
Six Suspects Manipulated Lottery Terminals to Spew Winning Tickets
More arrests to come, Connecticut police says
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 21st, 2016
Linux Mint Website Hack: A Timeline of Events
Hackers were distributing an IRC DDoSing bot
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 20th, 2016
US School Agrees to Pay $8,500 to Get Rid of Ransomware
Ransomware shuts down school website for a week
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 18th, 2016
Hollywood Hospital Pays $17,000 to Get Rid of Ransomware
Hospital officials give in, pay to remove the infection
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 15th, 2016
Phone Hacking Group Is Selling Fake Bomb Threats for Bitcoin
Darkness.su admin arrested in connection to the bomb threats
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 14th, 2016
Hackers Demand $3.6 Million from Hollywood Hospital Following Cyber-Attack
Hospital staff severely impeded in their day-to-day work
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 10th, 2016
US IRS Sheds Light on "Automated Attack" Suffered Last Month
Attacker got his hands on 101,000 E-filing PINs
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 8th, 2016
Loanbase Hacked Due to WordPress Bug, Loses Customer Bitcoins
Loanbase blames WordPress blog for their data breach
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 1st, 2016
Ransomware Infection Cripples UK City for Six Days
Ransomware infection on Lincolnshire City Council computers brings down several local city departments