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Hackers sent Joe Biden's presidential campaign staffers malicious emails that impersonated anti-virus software company McAfee, and used a mix of legitimate services to avoid detection. The unsuccessful advanced persistent threat group attacks on Biden's campaign were first uncovered in June, along with cyberattacks targeting Donald Trump's campaign.
Millions of Barnes & Noble customers received a worrying email around 1 am on Thursday morning notifying them that the company suffered from a cyberattack on Oct. 10, which brought down its Nook services and led to the "Unauthorized access" to "Certain Barnes & Noble corporate systems." Reports of problems with the Barnes & Noble system started to emerge on Saturday, when GoodEReader reported outages with Nook e-readers as well as the Nook apps for iOS and Android.
Bookselling giant Barnes & Noble has sent email notifications to its customers to inform them of a recent cyberattack. A Fortune 1000 company, Barnes & Noble is the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States.
Iran's cybersecurity authority acknowledged cyberattacks on two governmental departments this week, state media reported Thursday. The cyberattacks occurred Tuesday and Wednesday and were under investigation, the state-owned IRAN daily newspaper said.
78% of SMBs indicated that having a privileged access management solution in place is important to a cybersecurity program - yet 76% of respondents said that they do not have one that is fully deployed, a Devolutions survey reveals. SMBs are not immune, company size doesn't protect from cyberattacks.
U.S. Bookstore giant Barnes & Noble has disclosed that they were victims of a cyberattack that may have exposed customers' data. In an email sent to customers late Wednesday night and seen by BleepingComputer, Barnes & Noble has disclosed that they suffered a cyberattack on October 10th, 2020.
U.S. Bookstore giant Barnes & Noble has disclosed that they were victims of a cyberattack that may have exposed customers' data. In an email sent to customers late Wednesday night and seen by BleepingComputer, Barnes & Noble has disclosed that they suffered a cyberattack on October 10th, 2020.
Finance ministers from the G7 industrialized countries expressed "Concern" on Tuesday over the rise in "Malicious cyber-attacks" in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, including some involving cryptocurrencies. These ransomware attacks demanding payments often to facilitate money laundering "Have been growing in scale, sophistication, and frequency" over the past two years, causing "Significant economic damage and customer protection and data privacy," the ministers said.
Threat actors are consistently leveraging legitimate services and tools from within Microsoft Office 365 to pilfer sensitive data and launch phishing, ransomware, and other attacks across corporate networks from a persistent position inside the cloud-based suite, new research has found. Office 365 user account takeover - particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic with so many working from home - is one of the most effective ways for an attacker to gain a foothold in an organization's network, said Chris Morales, head of security analytics at Vectra AI. From there, attackers can move laterally to launch attacks, something that researchers observed in 96 percent of the 4 million Office 365 customers sampled between June to August 2020.
Hackney Council in East London has declared that it was hit by a "Cyberattack" - but both the authority and officials from the National Cyber Security Centre remain tight-lipped about what actually happened. In a statement published on the council website this morning, local mayor Philip Glanville said: "Hackney Council has been the target of a serious cyberattack, which is affecting many of our services and IT systems."