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The city council systems for the London Borough of Hackney have been hit with a 'serious' cyberattack that impacts many of their services and IT systems. Not much is known about the attack, but in a press release to the borough's website, Mayor Philip Glanville stated that it was the Hackney Borough Council's IT systems that had suffered the attack.
For prices between $300 and $10,000, ransomware groups have the opportunity to easily buy initial network access to already-compromised companies on underground forums. The ability to purchase initial network access gives cybercriminals a quicker handle on infiltrating corporate and government networks, so that they can focus in on establishing persistence and moving laterally.
A new report from data protection provider Infrascale discusses how ransomware and other cyberattacks can harm SMBs and how they can better protect their critical data in the event of an attack. Data protection is designed to defend data against both internal and external threats, including data corruption, server crashes, human error, malicious attacks, and even natural disasters.
SMB Suite is now working with CI Security, a Managed Detection and Response services provider specializing in protecting the networks of critical infrastructure, essential organizations, and mid-market companies, to protect and defend customers from cyberattacks. Teaming up with CI Security allows SMB Suite to offer to their customers top-notch security operations and staffing solutions that typically only large companies have been able to afford.
The United Nations' International Maritime Organization last week said some of its systems were disrupted as a result of a cyberattack. IMO's website and other web services were first disrupted on September 30, when the agency announced on Twitter that its team was working on fixing some "Technical issues." Then, on October 2, it admitted that the problems were caused by a cyberattack, and said that it was working on restoring impacted systems.
Siemens Energy announced a new AI-based industrial cybersecurity service, Managed Detection and Response, powered by Eos.ii, to help small and medium-sized energy companies defend critical infrastructure against cyberattacks. "As the digital revolution transforms the energy industry, industrial operating environments are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks," said Leo Simonovich, Head of Industrial Cybersecurity at Siemens Energy.
Health insurer Anthem has agreed to another multimillion-dollar settlement over a cyberattack on its technology that exposed the personal information of nearly 79 million people. Anthem said it was the last open investigation into the attack.
On Tuesday, Microsoft released its annual Digital Defense Report providing a glimpse of the trends shaping the cybersecurity landscape during the last year. The Digital Defense Report analyzes cybersecurity threats from the second half of 2019 through the first half of 2020.
Universal Health Services over the weekend shut down the IT networks at multiple hospitals in the United States, after being hit with a cyberattack. On Monday, some of the company's employees took to Reddit to share information on a cyberattack that forced the shutdown of computers at UHS facilities nationwide.
Security experts say they are encouraged by the anemic growth, but at the same time are expressing concern that attacks are now becoming more potent, targeted and complex. According to new research from Kaspersky, 37.8 percent of computers tied to the industrial control systems segment suffered attacks in the first half of 2020, which represents only a 2 percentage increase.