by ATTACK Simulator | Jul 8, 2021 | Cybersecurity News
As the ransomware threat against companies, institutions, and organizations in the U.S. is becoming increasingly present and likely imminent, Joe Biden plans on taking strategic action against it after elevating it to National Security Priority. Biden to set up...
by ATTACK Simulator | Jul 8, 2021 | Uncategorized, Cybersecurity News
A second massive Linkedln breach exposes the personal data of 700 million LinkedIn users (nearly 92% of the total 756M users). Data has been sold on the dark web, with records including phone numbers, physical addresses, inferred salaries, and geolocation data. Based...
by ATTACK Simulator | Jul 4, 2021 | Cybersecurity News
On June 9 this year, the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Economy (MITES) was hit by a cyberattack, only three months after a previous incident in March. Having an annual budget of nearly €39 million, this ministerial department is in charge of coordinating and...
by ATTACK Simulator | Jul 3, 2021 | Cybersecurity News
Russian attackers accessed Denmark’s central bank network with the use of a hidden malware. This granted them access to the institution’s systems for seven months without being noticed. U.S. attributed the illicit operation to the Russian Foreign...
by ATTACK Simulator | Jul 2, 2021 | Cybersecurity News
Microsoft signed a driver being distributed in the gaming field, a malicious network filter rootkit. The driver is called “Netfilter,” a rootkit that redirects traffic to Chinese C2 IPs and aims to spoof gamers’ geo-locations to deceive the system and play from...
by ATTACK Simulator | Jul 2, 2021 | Cybersecurity News
Cyberattacks on the video game industry increased during the pandemic year, shooting 340%, showing Akamai’s gaming report from 2020. Who is Akamai Technologies? Akamai Technologies Inc. is a global content delivery network (CDN), cloud service, and cybersecurity...
