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Cyber expert suggests American Water cyber incident was a ransomware attack
A security specialist has speculated that a recent attack on the US’s largest water utility, described as a “cyber incident” in its 8-K disclosure to the SEC, was driven by ransomware. American Water said it became aware of the incident on 3 October, after detecting a cyber incident where it identified unauthorized activity on its internal networks, and promptly activated…
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Transport for London discloses ongoing “cyber security incident”
Image: Transport for LondonTransport for London (TfL), the city’s transport authority, is investigating an ongoing cyberattack that has yet to impact its services. The agency says that, for the moment, there is no evidence that customer information was compromised during the incident. “We are currently dealing with an ongoing cyber security incident,” TfL’s Customer Information Team warned customers over email earlier…
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Toyota’s cyber woes continue as latest breach marks fifth major IT incident in two years
Toyota has confirmed its network was breached after a threat actor listed a 240GB trove of data stolen from the company’s internal systems on an underground hacking forum. The Japanese car manufacturer admitted its systems had been compromised on 19 August, after a threat collective operating under the name ZeroSevenGroup said it breached one of the firm’s US branches. The…
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Everything we know so far about the Mike Lynch superyacht incident
Mike Lynch, the co-founder of British tech giant Autonomy and security firm Darktrace, has gone missing after his family yacht sank off the coast of Sicily. Lynch had several weeks ago been acquitted of fraud in a long-running case centered on HP’s 2011 acquisition of Autonomy, after spending a year under house arrest in the US. In a bizarre twist…
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Rubrik and Mandiant plan to transform incident response with new deal
Rubrik has struck up a new partnership and technology integration with Mandiant, in a move the zero trust data security specialist said will speed up customers’ threat detection and recovery times. The collaboration will see Mandiant Threat Intelligence integrated directly into Rubrik Security Cloud and Rubrik Clean Room Recovery on Google Cloud, while the companies will also partner their respective…
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