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Capital Health Hospitals hit by cyberattack causing IT outages
2023-11-30 19:12

Capital Health hospitals and physician offices across New Jersey are experiencing IT outages after a cyberattack hit the non-profit organization's network earlier this week. Capital Health confirmed that both hospitals are currently accepting incoming patients, including emergency rooms and all other locations, under protocols established for system downtime.

Staples confirms cyberattack behind service outages, delivery issues
2023-11-30 17:22

American office supply retailer Staples took down some of its systems earlier this week after a cyberattack to contain the breach's impact and protect customer data.The disclosure comes after multiple Reddit reports posted online since Monday reported various Staples internal operation problems, including an inability to access Zendesk, VPN employee portals, print email, use phone lines, and more.

British Library: Ongoing outage caused by ransomware attack
2023-11-17 13:37

The British Library confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind a major outage that is still affecting services across several locations. Although the library confirmed this was caused by ransomware, it still has to link the attack to a specific operation and reveal what employee and/or user personal or financial information was accessed or stolen from its systems, if any.

Russian Hackers Sandworm Cause Power Outage in Ukraine Amidst Missile Strikes
2023-11-10 12:22

The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. "The actor first used OT-level living-off-the-land techniques to likely trip the victim's substation circuit breakers, causing an unplanned power outage that coincided with mass missile strikes on critical infrastructure across Ukraine," the company said.

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.