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9 Dec

#school | #ransomware | Town Hit by Ransomware; System Shut Down to Limit Damage – East Greenwich News

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans By Elizabeth F. McNamara Town Manager Andrew Nota said Saturday the town had been hit with computer ransomware and had shut down the system townwide to evaluate the damage and rebuild....
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3 Dec

#infosec | Global Cops Shut 31,000 Domains in IP Crackdown

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Global police have shut down nearly 31,000 domains as part of a crackdown on IP infringement. Law enforcers from 18 EU member states including the UK joined forces with Europol, the...
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26 Oct

#city | #ransomware | Johannesburg’s network shut down after second attack in 3 months

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Enlarge / Johannesburg City Hall Johannesburg, the biggest city in South Africa and the 26th largest city worldwide, has shut down its website, billing and electronic services after being hit by...
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17 Oct

Feds Shut Down Largest Dark Web Child Abuse Site; South Korean Admin Arrested

The United States Department of Justice said today that they had arrested hundreds of criminals in a global crackdown after taking down the largest known child porn site on the dark web and tracing payments made in bitcoins. With an...
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29 Jan

Police Shut Down xDedic – An Online Market for Cyber Criminals

In an international operation involving law enforcement authorities from the U.S. and several European countries, feds have shut down an online underground marketplace and arrested three suspects in Ukraine. Dubbed xDedic, the illegal online marketplace let cybercriminals buy, sell or...
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10 Dec

Google+ to Shut Down Early After New API Flaw Hits 52.5 Million Users

Google today revealed that Google+ has suffered another massive data breach, forcing the tech giant to shut down its struggling social network four months earlier than its actual scheduled date, i.e., in April 2019 instead of August 2019. Google said...
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28 Apr

Police Shut Down World’s Biggest ‘DDoS-for-Hire’ Service–Admins Arrested

In a major hit against international cybercriminals, the Dutch police have taken down the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire service that helped cyber criminals launch over 4 million attacks and arrested its administrators. An operation led by the UK’s National Crime Agency...
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24 Feb

2,000 #computers were #shut down due to #SamSam virus #attack to #Colorado Department of #Transportation

Source: National Cyber Security News On Wednesday morning the workday in Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) was disturbed. The institution went back to good old days when computers were not existing due to SamSam ransomware virus attack. On February 22,...
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4 Dec

Feds Shut Down ‘Longest-Running’ Andromeda Botnet

In a coordinated International cyber operation, Europol with the help of international law enforcement agencies has taken down what it called “one of the longest-running malware families in existence” known as Andromeda. Andromeda, also known as Win32/Gamarue, is an infamous...
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11 Aug

Hackers looking to shut down factories for pay

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The malware entered the North Carolina transmission-manufacturing plant’s computer network by the way of email in August 2016, just as the criminals wanted, spreading like a virus and threatening to lock...
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