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.
All computer servers in the regional government in Lazio have been shut down in a bid to stop the virus spreading.
'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.
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.
Images captured from hacked surveillance video were posted on Twitter with an #OperationPanopticon hashtag.
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.
The trio, aged between, 27 and 39, was arrested during an intelligence driven operation by the Hawks on Friday.
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.
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.
The city missed the deadline set by the hackers who demanded almost half a million rand in bitcoin.
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.
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.
A representative for the US Attorney’s office said it was not immediately clear what the suspect’s motive was.
Over the past 10 years, the electricity sector has experienced significant cyber attacks – the map below provides a non-exhaustive snapshot.
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.
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.
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".
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.
The company announced over the weekend that hackers stole emails and related attachments, and wanted money in return for keeping the information confidential.