An October ransomware attack ultimately forced The Heritage Company to close its doors. Shortly before Christmas, the company informed the staff that their operation was no longer tenable, even noting that the CEO was paying salaries out-of-pocket in an attempt to keep business going while systems were unavailable. Unfortunately, three months after the attack, The…
Authorities are reexamining an August outage at the London Stock Exchange that was initially attributed to a software glitch. The disruption prevented traders from buying or selling shares for more than 90 minutes, and impacted prices on two stock indexes. The incident could have been caused by hackers trying to destabilise markets for their own…
If you’ve been following the news lately, you’ve heard about the recent events between the United States and Iran. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert in regard to cybersecurity and Iran’s historic use of cyber offensive activities as retaliation. Patterns of known Iranian threat techniques include: credential dumping, obfuscated files or information,…
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