WordFence discovered over 13.7 million cyber attacks targeting four vulnerable plugins and 15 Epsilon framework themes in 36 hours hitting 1.6 million WordPress websites.
The attack has been attributed to an older remote access trojan that was able to take out 49% of the modems from the ISP's ASN, in what is believed to be a targeted cyber attack intended to cause a prolonged outage of internet routers.
Officials have warned that the NHS patient data stolen in the University of Manchester cyber attack could become publicly available with potential ramifications. The incident impacted UoM, which holds patient information of 1.1 million patients across 200 hospitals.
Molson Coors filed a security incident with the Security and Exchange Commission acknowledging a cyber attack that took its systems offline, suggesting a ransomware attack.
Acadian Ambulance Services suffered a Daixin cyber attack that disrupted certain computer systems and leaked the personal and protected health information of 10 million people.
Report from Mandiant mapped out recent cyber attacks against FTA and finds it likely that more organizations have been compromised. CISA has issued a joint advisory with Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the UK.
Acer suffered another cyber attack in Taiwan by the Desorden group that hacked the company in India. Hackers warned of Acer's poor cybersecurity practices and vulnerable Asian servers.
Prime Minister Edi Rama ended diplomatic ties with Iran in a video statement on September 7, citing the July cyber attack and requiring the country's embassy staff to leave within 24 hours.
More than 3,000 #cybersecurity specialists and 1,258 algorithmic models worked 24 hours around the clock to fend off 2.2 billion cyber attacks on Singles Day. Just another day's work for Alibaba defending 300 million hacking attempts per day.
Popular remote monitoring and management software firm AnyDesk has suffered a cyber attack that compromised its production systems and leaked source code and code signing certificates.