Incidents  

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 26th, 2016
Malware Shuts Down German Nuclear Power Plant on Chernobyl's 30th Anniversary

Malware Shuts Down German Nuclear Power Plant on Chernobyl's 30th Anniversary

Malware incident branded an accident, not an attack

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 20th, 2016
UK Officials Mistakenly Leak NATO Military Manual

UK Officials Mistakenly Leak NATO Military Manual

Two files get switched in an email, disaster ensues

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 13th, 2016
Swedish Air Space Shut Down by Cyber-Attacks, Officials Blame Russia

Swedish Air Space Shut Down by Cyber-Attacks, Officials Blame Russia

Swedish officials blame downtime on solar flares

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 6th, 2016
New Record Set for Layer 7 DDoS Attacks by Nitol Botnet

New Record Set for Layer 7 DDoS Attacks by Nitol Botnet

Nitol botnet carries out huge 8.7 Gbps Layer 7 DDoS attack

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 5th, 2016
Ransomware Epidemic Makes Two New Victims, Hospitals in California and Indiana

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

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • March 31st, 2016
Hackers Seeking Insider Trading Information Breach US Law Firms

Hackers Seeking Insider Trading Information Breach US Law Firms

Attacks took place in 2015, US officials still investigating

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • March 31st, 2016
Toy Maker Mattel Loses $3M in BEC Scam, Then Fights for It and Gets It Back

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

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • March 28th, 2016
Hardware-Based Keyloggers Found in the Library of a Canadian University

Hardware-Based Keyloggers Found in the Library of a Canadian University

Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, affected

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • March 27th, 2016
Six Suspects Manipulated Lottery Terminals to Spew Winning Tickets

Six Suspects Manipulated Lottery Terminals to Spew Winning Tickets

More arrests to come, Connecticut police says

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 21st, 2016
Linux Mint Website Hack: A Timeline of Events

Linux Mint Website Hack: A Timeline of Events

Hackers were distributing an IRC DDoSing bot

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 20th, 2016
US School Agrees to Pay $8,500 to Get Rid of Ransomware

US School Agrees to Pay $8,500 to Get Rid of Ransomware

Ransomware shuts down school website for a week

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 18th, 2016
Hollywood Hospital Pays $17,000 to Get Rid of Ransomware

Hollywood Hospital Pays $17,000 to Get Rid of Ransomware

Hospital officials give in, pay to remove the infection

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 15th, 2016
Phone Hacking Group Is Selling Fake Bomb Threats for Bitcoin

Phone Hacking Group Is Selling Fake Bomb Threats for Bitcoin

Darkness.su admin arrested in connection to the bomb threats

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 14th, 2016
Hackers Demand $3.6 Million from Hollywood Hospital Following Cyber-Attack

Hackers Demand $3.6 Million from Hollywood Hospital Following Cyber-Attack

Hospital staff severely impeded in their day-to-day work

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 10th, 2016
US IRS Sheds Light on "Automated Attack" Suffered Last Month

US IRS Sheds Light on "Automated Attack" Suffered Last Month

Attacker got his hands on 101,000 E-filing PINs

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 8th, 2016
Loanbase Hacked Due to WordPress Bug, Loses Customer Bitcoins

Loanbase Hacked Due to WordPress Bug, Loses Customer Bitcoins

Loanbase blames WordPress blog for their data breach

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 1st, 2016
Ransomware Infection Cripples UK City for Six Days

Ransomware Infection Cripples UK City for Six Days

Ransomware infection on Lincolnshire City Council computers brings down several local city departments

 
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