Hoya hit by cyberattack in February, disrupting Thai factory operations
Japanese eyeglass lens maker Hoya Corp. was hit by a cyberattack at its key production base in Thailand in late February, leading to a partial shutdown of its factory lines for three days, company officials said Saturday. About 100 computers were infected with a virus ...
German drugmaker Bayer has contained a cyber attack it believes was hatched in China, the company said, highlighting the risk of data theft and disruption faced by big business. Bayer found the infectious software on its computer networks early last year, covertly monitored and analyzed ...
A group of American hackers who once worked for U.S. intelligence agencies helped the United Arab Emirates spy on a BBC host, the chairman of Al Jazeera and other prominent Arab media figures during a tense 2017 confrontation pitting the UAE and its allies ...
An 18-year-old boy was referred to prosecutors Thursday for allegedly stealing about ¥15 million ($134,300) worth of cryptocurrency last year by hacking a digital currency storage website, police said. The case is the first in Japan in which criminal charges have been pursued against a ...
Facebook considers paying back advertisers as system outages persist around globe
Facebook is undergoing one of its most widespread and persistent system outages, with users across the globe unable to access its social network and services from Instagram to Messenger for much of Wednesday. From about noon New York time, users encountered only partially loaded pages ...
Russian trolls shift strategy to disrupt U.S. election in 2020
Russian internet trolls appear to be shifting strategy in their efforts to disrupt the 2020 U.S. elections, promoting politically divisive messages through phony social media accounts instead of creating propaganda themselves, cybersecurity experts say. The Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency may be among those trying to ...
U.S. disrupted Russian trolls on day of November 2018 election: Washington Post
The U.S. military disrupted the internet access of a Russian troll farm accused of trying to influence American voters on Nov. 6, 2018, the day of the congressional elections, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The U.S. Cyber Command strike targeted the Internet Research Agency ...
Iranian hackers got worryingly close to Israel's missile alarm in 2017
Iranian hackers came worryingly close to Israel's missile warning system, sending the military scrambling to protect alerts from being compromised, its top cyberdefense chief said. After detecting the hackers in 2017 and monitoring them to discern their intent, the military blocked them when it became ...
MPs told to reset passwords as Australia investigates attempted hack of national parliament
Australian authorities are investigating an attempt to hack into the national parliament's computer network, two senior lawmakers said Friday, but there is no evidence yet that any data has been accessed or stolen. In one of Australia's most high-profile cyberattacks, Tony Smith, the speaker of ...
Ukraine sees surge in cyberattacks targeting election, suspects Russia
Hackers likely controlled by Russia are stepping up efforts to disrupt Ukraine's presidential election in March with cyberattacks on electoral servers and personal computers of election staff, the head of Ukraine's cyberpolice said on Friday. Serhiy Demedyuk told Reuters the attackers were using virus-infected greeting ...
Cybersecurity experts say the type of virus detected and servers involved in the cyberattack on Keidanren were identical to those used in past cases attributed to APT10.
Coincheck wins approval to run cryptocurrency exchange a year after massive theft
About a year after a massive digital heist that shocked the cryptocurrency industry around the world, Japan's financial watchdog gave Coincheck Inc. the green light Friday to officially run a virtual currency exchange. Following the Coincheck hacking case in late January that cost the Tokyo-based ...
