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Russian hackers switch to LOTL technique to cause power outage
2023-11-09 11:12

Russian state hackers have evolved their methods for breaching industrial control systems by adopting living-off-the-land techniques that enable reaching the final stage of the attack quicker and...

OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages
2023-11-09 08:18

OpenAI has been addressing "Periodic outages" due to DDoS attacks targeting its API and ChatGPT services within the last 24 hours. While the company didn't immediately provide any details on the root cause of these incidents, OpenAI confirmed earlier today that they're linked to ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks.

ChatGPT back online after major OpenAI systems outage
2023-11-08 14:43

Update November 8, 11:05 EST: OpenAI says impacted services are back online. OpenAI's AI-powered ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot is down because of a major ongoing outage that also took down the company's Application Programming Interface.

ChatGPT down after major outage impacting OpenAI systems
2023-11-08 14:43

OpenAI's AI-powered ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot is down because of a major ongoing outage that also took down the company's Application Programming Interface. Today's issues follow another partial outage on Tuesday that also impacted the company's API and ChatGPT, both hit by periodic outages for several hours.

Cloudflare Dashboard and APIs down after data center power outage
2023-11-02 16:13

An ongoing Cloudflare outage has taken down many of its products, including the company's dashboard and related application programming interfaces customers use to manage and read service configurations. The complete list of services whose functionality is wholly or partially impacted includes the Cloudflare dashboard, the Cloudflare API, Logpush, WARP / Zero Trust device posture, Stream API, Workers API, and the Alert Notification System.

Toronto Public Library outages caused by Black Basta ransomware attack
2023-11-01 20:25

The Toronto Public Library is experiencing ongoing technical outages due to a Black Basta ransomware attack. The Toronto Public Library is Canada's largest public library system, giving access to 12 million books through 100 branch libraries across the city.

American Family Insurance confirms cyberattack is behind IT outages
2023-10-21 20:10

Insurance giant American Family Insurance has confirmed it suffered a cyberattack and shut down portions of its IT systems after customers reported website outages all week.American Family Insurance is an insurance company focusing on commercial and personal property, casualty, auto, and life insurance, as well as offering investment and retirement planning The company employs 13,000 people and has a 2022 revenue of $14.4 billion.

Kwik Trip finally confirms cyberattack was behind ongoing outage
2023-10-20 13:44

Two weeks into an ongoing IT outage, Kwik Trip finally confirmed that it's investigating a cyberattack impacting the convenience store chain's internal network since October 9."Although a thorough forensic investigation is still ongoing and further information may be uncovered, current findings indicate that we experienced a cybersecurity incident that caused disruption to systems located on our internal network on Monday, October 9, 2023," Kwik Trip said on Thursday evening.

KwikTrip all but says IT outage was caused by a cyberattack
2023-10-17 21:13

Kwik Trip has released another statement on an ongoing outage, all but confirming it suffered a cyberattack that has led to IT system disruptions. Kwik Trip is a US chain of over 800 convenience stores and gas stations in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, also operating under the name Kwik Star in Illinois, Iowa, and South Dakota.

Kwik Trip IT systems outage caused by mysterious ‘network incident’
2023-10-13 18:15

Kwik Trip has been impacted by a wide range of mysterious business disruptions since this weekend that are indicative of a ransomware attack. Kwik Trip is a US chain of over 800 convenience stores and gas stations in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, also operating under the name Kwik Star in Illinois, Iowa, and South Dakota.