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Cyberattackers brought down around 70 Ukrainian government websites on Friday, defacing the site of the foreign ministry with a message to "Be afraid and expect the worst." NEWS IN KYIV: Several Ukrainian government websites down due to a major a cyberattack.
The CISO role has taken on greater prominence at a time when cyberattacks have become relentless and increasingly sophisticated, and millions of people continue to work from home. "As cybercrime continues to increase and companies face monetary losses or damages, the role of the CISO and security overall or critical to business success."
Check Point Research said Africa had the highest amount with an average of 1,582 per week per organization. For 2021 as a whole, the number of cyberattacks against corporate networks soared by 50% from the previous year, cyber threat intelligence provider Check Point Research said in a report released on Monday.
We have seen an increase in temerity of attacks by nation-states, such as the Russian attack on SolarWinds, and seen their attack tactics shift from targeted, stealthy operations into opportunistic hacks for potential future uses, such as the attacks attributed to Hafnium. Anytime complexity increases, it also increases the potential attack surface.
Opioid treatment network Behavioral Health Group suffered a cyberattack that led to an almost week-long disruption of IT systems and patient care. Behavioral Health Group is one of the largest networks of outpatient opioid treatment centers in the USA, with over 80 clinics throughout seventeen states.
As many as 1.6 million WordPress sites have been targeted by an active large-scale attack campaign originating from 16,000 IP addresses by exploiting weaknesses in four plugins and 15 Epsilon Framework themes. WordPress security company Wordfence, which disclosed details of the attacks, said Thursday it had detected and blocked more than 13.7 million attacks aimed at the plugins and themes in a period of 36 hours with the goal of taking over the websites and carrying out malicious actions.
Ramamoorthy is firmly on the affirmative side for using AI to fight cybercrime. "Attackers use powerful techniques like AI to exploit unsuspecting end-users to gain access to privileged information by compromising said access points."
Approximately 330 SPAR shops in North East England face severe operational problems following a weekend cyberattack, forcing many stores to close or switch to cash-only payments. SPAR is an international supermarket franchise that operates 13,320 stores in 48 countries, but the recent security incident only affected stores in the northern part of England.
Last month saw an alarming rise in cyberattacks against healthcare facilities. Ransomware attacks across the globe locked 68 care providers out of their respective networks during Q3 of this year alone, threatening patient safety and privacy.
As of Friday - as in, shopping-on-steroids Black Friday - retail titan IKEA was wrestling with a then-ongoing reply-chain email phishing attack in which attackers were malspamming replies to stolen email threads. The phishing emails were coming from internal IKEA email addresses, as well as from the systems compromised at the company's suppliers and partners.