Hackers
TransUnion not keen to pay hackers $15m ransom, South Africans' info at risk
IT Web news editor Admire Moyo shocked that the hackers sent him his information such as cellphone numbers, email addresses and the apartments he has stayed in.
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Foreign hackers blamed for attack on Rome website
All computer servers in the regional government in Lazio have been shut down in a bid to stop the virus spreading.
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Rome region website hacked, affecting vaccine bookings
'A hacker attack is underway... all defence and verification operations are ongoing to avoid prolonging the cut in services,' the region said on its Twitter account.
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Meatpacking giant JBS says paid $11m to hackers in ransomware attack
The American subsidiary of Brazilian meat processor JBS paid the equivalent of $11 million to ransomware extortionists to prevent any further disruption by the hackers, the company said in a statement Wednesday.
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Hackers breach cameras at banks, jails, Tesla and more
Images captured from hacked surveillance video were posted on Twitter with an #OperationPanopticon hashtag.
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Hackers test defences of Trump campaign websites ahead of US election
Cloudflare is widely used by businesses and other organisations to help defend against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which aim to take down websites by flooding them with malicious traffic.
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Trio nabbed for allegedly conspiring to steal money from Sassa
The trio, aged between, 27 and 39, was arrested during an intelligence driven operation by the Hawks on Friday.
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Lady Gaga's data stolen by hackers amid ransom threat
The 34-year-old pop singer and other A-list stars have fallen victim to a hacker group called REvil, which has been able to access an array of confidential information.
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Hackers invade Nkoana-Mashabane's planned video meeting with pornography
Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane was expected to host a webinar on the effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable members of society when hackers disrupted the digital meeting.
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CoJ: Hackers didn’t access financial information
The city missed the deadline set by the hackers who demanded almost half a million rand in bitcoin.
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City of Joburg knows how and where IT system hacked
The City of Joburg said that it had called on its local and international partners who were experts in IT to assist with its investigation.
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CoJ says it will not concede to hackers' demands
The City of Joburg disclosed that the attackers hacked the system on Friday and had threatened to leak customers' data if their demand of four bitcoins was not met.
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Capital One says info of over 100 million individuals in US, Canada hacked
A representative for the US Attorney’s office said it was not immediately clear what the suspect’s motive was.
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Hackers are causing blackouts. It's time to boost our cyber resilience
Over the past 10 years, the electricity sector has experienced significant cyber attacks – the map below provides a non-exhaustive snapshot.
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Russian hackers bilked firms out of tens of millions of dollars
A separate, more lucrative scheme that began in 2015 saw two of the accused operate a fake advertising network for another fraudulent digital ad scheme.
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Russian hackers targeted US conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft
The software giant said it thwarted the attempts last week by taking control of sites that hackers had designed to mimic the pages of The International Republican Institute and The Hudson Institute.
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Hackers hit South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb, bitcoin falls
Bithumb said in a notice on its website on Wednesday that it has stopped all trading after ascertaining "some cryptocurrencies worth about 35 billion won has been seized".
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New regulations to hold companies to account for security breaches
Information Regulator chairperson advocate Pansy Tlakula says new regulations should be in place by December, which will hold companies responsible for not having the appropriate security procedures in place.
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Information Regulator seeks meeting with Liberty after data breach
The company announced over the weekend that hackers stole emails and related attachments, and wanted money in return for keeping the information confidential.
