cyberattacks

Australia & Oceania 07/20/21, 23:46

America, Australia, the European Union, United Kingdom, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and other countries publicly criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). U.S. allies joined in blaming the CCP for orchestrating a major cyberattack on Microsoft and other breaches. "[China's] Ministry of State Security (MSS) has fostered an ecosystem of criminal contract hackers ...

Europe 07/12/21, 16:17

The municipality of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, declared a catastrophe, following the worst cyberattack on the country perpetrated by hackers. The federal cybersecurity watchdog confirmed the incursion that crippled the municipality's systems, and experts believe it could take at least a week to repair the damage, according to ...

U.S. 07/03/21, 16:03

Hackers have hijacked the information of more than 200 small businesses in Florida and are demanding millions of dollars in ransom, posing a serious threat to the country's supply chain.  The criminals exploited a weakness in the vendor Kaseya's technology management software and, after changing parts of it, encrypted customer files, ...

Opinion 06/18/21, 17:23

As countries gradually leave the coronavirus pandemic behind and return to "normal" life, ending blockades and mask mandates, a new pandemic, the "Climate Pandemic," is on the horizon. In the last fifteen months, the world establishment realized how easy it was to dominate and control the population. For this, they appealed ...

U.S. 06/03/21, 14:15

Former President Donald Trump released a new campaign ad on June 2 warning Americans what is happening to the country when not only illegal immigration, inflation are putting the country at risk, but also cyber-attacks targeting the food supply and infrastructure. https://twitter.com/VeBo1991/status/1400185629812604930 In his new ad, Trump warns, "We cannot allow our ...

Australia & Oceania 06/01/21, 16:35

The Australian and North American units of the world's largest meat processing plants were affected over the weekend by a cyber-attack directed against their information systems. On Monday, May 31, operations had to be canceled, generating huge chaos in the meat industry production chain. The Brazilian firm JBS SA announced the ...

U.S. 05/14/21, 17:57

The Colonial Pipeline Company was reported to have done an "about face" and paid its extortionists an amount of cryptocurrency equivalent to $5 million.  On Thursday, May 13, Bloomberg asserted Colonial paid the ransom just hours after the cyberattack last Friday, which had forced the company to shut down its pipeline ...

U.S. 08/14/20, 18:50

In a press release issued Thursday, Aug. 13, the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI exposed a hacking tool apparently used by Russian military intelligence that poses a threat to information on U.S. government and security networks. In the indictment against the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Directorate (commonly known ...

China 07/01/20, 06:10

Democrats in the House on Tuesday, June 30, shut down a GOP resolution condemning Chinese communist Party (CCP) cyberattacks on U.S. researchers in the race for a CCP Virus (coronavirus) vaccine. The resolution, proposed by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), failed in the chamber in a 230-180 vote, with not a single ...

Tech 01/09/19, 11:07

Cyberattacks on elections, public infrastructure and national security are increasingly being seen as the new normal, according to a global survey on cybersecurity. And in some of the world's larges

Politics 11/06/18, 03:01

Federal and state officials have been working for nearly two years to shore up the nation's election infrastructure from cyberattacks by Russians or others seeking to disrupt the voting process. It turns out that many of the problems are closer to home. Early voting leading up to Tuesday's midterm election have revealed ...

Politics 11/06/18, 02:00

Federal and state officials have been working for nearly two years to shore up the nation's election infrastructure from cyberattacks by Russians or others seeking to disrupt the voting process. It turns out that many of the problems are closer to home. Early voting leading up to Tuesday's midterm election revealed a ...