RapidVPN/ July 17, 2019/ Blog/ In May of this year, hackers took over the systems of Riviera Beach, when a police department employee unknowingly opened a malicious email that allowed the hackers to inject the whole city’s network with malware. For three weeks, the city had its computer systems held hostage. After a prolonged debate, the council of the city voted unanimously … [Read more...] about A city in Florida, Riviera Beach, paid a $600, 000 worth of bitcoin to hackers – Blog @RapidVPN
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Hackers Hit Australian Government with Cyberattack
February 19, 2019 The Australian government recently fell victim to a cyberattack being blamed upon a “sophisticated state actor”. No specific foreign nation or rogue regime has been named, but the widely believed presumption is that it was China. On account of the cyberattack, the networks of all three of … [Read more...] about Hackers Hit Australian Government with Cyberattack
Crunchyroll Anime Website Hit by Hackers
Crunchyroll has been subject to a hack in which malware was distributed.The popular anime site Crunchyroll has just been hacked.The timing of the attack was unfortunate, as visitors who attempted to play Attack on Titan on the morning of November 4 were in for a rude shock.The hackers had created and placed a fake page on the site, offering a malicious program named … [Read more...] about Crunchyroll Anime Website Hit by Hackers
Hacking Group ‘MoneyTaker’ Attacks Banks in USA, UK and Russia
Researchers found that a hacking group has stolen millions of dollars from 16 U.S. organizations, three Russian banks and one IT firm in the U.K. A team of researchers from cybersecurity firm Group-IB discovered that a hacking group that was previously undetected was behind a bank theft totaling to about $10 million. The theft involved at least 20 banks from the United Kingdom, … [Read more...] about Hacking Group ‘MoneyTaker’ Attacks Banks in USA, UK and Russia