Tag: cyber attack
Researchers Found New Laser-Based “Light Commands” Attack
Security researchers from the University of Electro-Communications & Michigan discovered a new kind of injection attack that allows an attacker to infuse arbitrary audio...
Canadian Territory Nunavut Suffers Ransomware Attack
The Government of Nunavut is the latest victim of a sophisticated ransomware attack. In an official statement, the Premier of Nunavut, Joe Savikataaq, stated...
Data Breach Reports Increase in Canada after Privacy Law
The number of reported data breaches in Canada increased by six times after the country implemented a new breach-reporting regulation.
The new regulation, the Personal...
Proofpoint Acquires Threat Intelligence Firm ObserveIT for US$ 225 million
Enterprise cybersecurity and compliance company, Proofpoint, recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ObserveIT in an all-cash deal for...
Russia Launches “Disconnect from the Internet” Law
It seems that Russia wants to build its own Internet Firewall platform to monitor internet traffic in the country through government servers. The Russian...
Researchers Discover the First “BlueKeep” Mass Hacking Campaign
BlueKeep, a critical remote code execution flaw, has been spotted by security researchers for the first time in the wild to launch a mass...