Category: cyber attack

Garmin reportedly paid millions to resolve its recent ransomware attack

Post author By Randall
Post date August 3, 2020
Categories In cyber attack, Cyberattack, evil corp, evilcorp, garmin, gear, Hack, hackers, News, ransomware, Security, Tech, wastedlocker

[ad_1] It hasn’t been revealed who was behind the attack nor to whom a ransom (if any) was paid. Some security researchers believe the WastedLocker ransomware (said to be the cause of the outage) is linked to a Russia-based group of cybercriminals known as Evil Corp. The US Treasury sanctioned that organization last year, accusing […]

UN confirms it suffered a ‘serious’ hack, but didn’t inform employees

Post author By Randall
Post date January 29, 2020
Categories In cyber attack, Cybersecurity, gear, hacking, Politics, Security, Tech, united nations

[ad_1] Sometime this past July, a group of hackers took advantage of a flaw in Microsoft’s SharePoint software and an unknown type of malware to gain access to dozens of servers at the UN’s Geneva and Vienna offices, as well as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The three […]