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Government websites and banks in Ukraine have been hit by outages as part of a reported cyberattack against the country’s digital infrastructure, with officials in Kiev saying it is a major attempt by hackers to take down online platforms. A statement issued on Wednesday evening by the country’s Minister of …

News Corp, a New York-based media and publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, alleged on Friday that hackers breached a “limited number” of its journalists’ email accounts in January. A digital security firm hired by News Corp claims China was likely involved in last month’s cyberattack. In an email to …

The North Korean hacker group APT37 attacked the Russian Foreign Ministry and its employees in late 2021 and subsequently compromised the account of a government employee, US information security experts have reported. According to researchers at US cybersecurity companies Cluster25 and Black Lotus Labs, and later reported by Moscow daily Kommersant, …

A Ukrainian ministry now says “evidence” indicates Moscow was behind Friday’s attack on Kiev’s governmental websites. The move comes after another official earlier pointed the finger at hackers backed by Belarusian intelligence. The statement arrived less than a day after the deputy secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, …

Friday’s massive cyberattack targeting Ukrainian government agencies was carried out by a group linked to Belarusian intelligence services, a senior Kiev security official claimed in a statement on Saturday. “Our preliminary belief is that the group UNC1151 may be involved in this attack,” the Deputy Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security …

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has condemned a hacking attempt on Ukraine that was said to have disrupted several government websites. He announced that the alliance would sign a cyber-security deal with Kiev within days. The overnight cyberattack on Ukrainian government agency portals was condemned by Stoltenberg in a brief …

The security breach was initially detected last week, but only publicized on Monday by ministry spokesman Commander Olivier Severin, according to a local media report.  “[The Defense Ministry] on Thursday discovered an attack on its computer network with internet access,” Severin said, adding that “all weekend our teams have been …

The head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali, compared the recent cyber intrusion to last year’s attack on the Shahid Rajaee terminal near the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on the coast of the Strait of Hormuz, and the hack that disrupted the country’s rail service …

Keith Alexander, who served as Director of the National Security Agency from 2005 to 2014, has called on the US and its ‘Five Eyes’ allies to construct a global unified cyber-defense ‘radar’ to protect critical infrastructure from foreign hackers. Speaking at an Australian Strategic Policy Institute webinar alongside Abigail Bradshaw, …

The demand was posted on a ‘dark web’ blog on Sunday, Reuters reported. The blog is “typically used” by the REvil cybercrime gang, who cybersecurity researchers believe are responsible for the latest attack, as well as an attack in May on JBS, the world’s largest meat-processing corporation. Last week’s attack …