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The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned today that threat actors could potentially target the February 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and March 2022 Paralympics. "The FBI to date is not aware of any specific cyber threat against the Olympics, but encourages partners to remain vigilant and maintain best practices in their network and digital environments," the US security service said in a private industry notification issued on Tuesday.
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre is urging organizations to bolster security and prepare for a potential wave of destructive cyberattacks after recent breaches of Ukrainian entities. The NCSC openly warns that Russian state-sponsored threat actors will likely conduct the attacks and reminds of the damage done in previous destructive cyberattacks, like NotPetya in 2017 and the GRU campaign against Georgia in 2019.
Cyberattacks can impact any organization, big or small. Large enterprises are often more tempting targets due to the vast amount of lucrative data they hold.
A massive Minecraft tournament styled after the Netflix blockbuster Squid Game apparently inspired a distributed denial of service attack that took down the sole internet service provider in Andorra. Confirmed: Internet disruption registered on #Andorra Telecom on Saturday evening; the incident is attributed by the state telco to a DDoS attack targeting the high-stakes #SquidCraftGames Minecraft Twitch competition, resulting in the elimination of Team Andorra pic.
As the number of electric cars on the road grows, so does the need for their electric vehicle charging stations and the internet-based managing systems within those stations. The systems built into electric cars perform critical duties over the internet, including remote monitoring and customer billing, as do a growing number of internet-enabled EV charging stations.
Humanitarian organization the International Red Cross disclosed this week that it has fallen foul of a cyberattack that saw the data of over 515,000 "Highly vulnerable people" exposed to an unknown entity. The target of the attack was the organisation's Restoring Family Links operation, which strives to find missing persons and reunite those separated from their families due to armed conflict, migration, disaster, detention and other catastrophic events.
A cyberattack on a Red Cross contactor has led to the theft of personal data for more than 515,000 people in 'Restoring Family Links,' a program that helps reunite families separated by war, disaster, and migration. The announcement comes from the International Committee of the Red Cross, which states that the data was compiled by at least 60 different Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies worldwide.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency urges U.S. organizations to strengthen their cybersecurity defenses against data-wiping attacks recently seen targeting Ukrainian government agencies and businesses.CISA is now urging business leaders and U.S. organizations to take the following steps to prevent similar destructive attacks on their networks.
SJD Accountancy and Nixon Williams - both contractor-focused beancounting firms owned by the same corporate parent as cyber-attack-struck UK umbrella company Parasol - have been hit by online attackers. The three firms are all nested under UK corporate parent Optionis Group, which describes itself as a "Family" of "Award-winning tax, umbrella and accountancy solutions" aimed at contractors.
The government of Ukraine on Sunday formally accused Russia of masterminding the attacks that targeted websites of public institutions and government agencies this past week. "All the evidence points to the fact that Russia is behind the cyber attack," the Ministry of Digital Transformation said in a statement.