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Denmark's Train Network Stalled From Cyberattack on Subcontractor
Denmark’s train network stalled late last month due to a cyberattack on a subcontractor, which national rail company DSB called an ‘economic’ crime.
DSB is an abbreviation for Danske Statsbaner (Danish State Railways), which is th...
ALMA Observatory in Chile Halts Operations Following Cyberattack
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in Chile suspended all astronomical observation operations and took its public website offline following a cyberattack last week.
The observatory’s email services are also curr...
Updated TikTok Policy Allows Employees to Access EU and UK User Data
Popular video-sharing platform TikTok recently updated its privacy policy, allowing its employees from across the world to access the data of European users.
ByteDance, the China-based company that owns TikTok, claimed the policy...
Discord Disabled More Than 500,000 Accounts due to Child Safety Concerns
Social platform Discord said last week that it disabled 767,363 accounts for policy violations between April and June 2022.
According to the company’s quarterly safety report, 69% of all the disabled accounts posed Child Safety co...
OpenSSL Patches Two High-Severity Security Vulnerabilities
The OpenSSL Project recently patched two high-severity security flaws in its open-source cryptographic library used to encrypt communication channels and HTTPS connections.
These vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786) i...
German Police Arrest Student for Allegedly Operating Drug Trafficking Marketplace
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office announced the arrest of a 22-year-old student last week who allegedly ran a Darknet marketplace used for drug trafficking.
“The Federal Criminal Police Office and the Central Office for Cyb...
'See Tickets' Website Compromised by Hackers; Credit Card Data Stolen
Global ticketing company See Tickets recently revealed that it fell victim to a data breach which spanned for over two years.
Data breaches can have a variety of causes, ranging from sophisticated attacks against a company’s infra...
Dutch Police Arrest Man for Hacking into Medical Center and Stealing Documents
The National Police in the Netherlands arrested a 19-year-old man from ‘Krimpenaan den Ijssel’ for allegedly breaching a healthcare provider’s software system and stealing personal and medical data. At this time, however, it was n...
US Charges Ukrainian National for Alleged Involvement in Raccoon Stealer Malware Campaign
US authorities charged 26-year-old Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky for his alleged involvement in the Raccoon Stealer malware campaign.
According to the indictment, the suspect engaged in malicious activities under the nickname...
Iranian Atomic Energy Agency Attacked by Hackers; Data Stolen
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) was hit by hackers last week who claimed to have stolen more than 50 GB of critical documents covering the country’s nuclear program operations.
Thousands of emails, messages, and other typ...