All posts tagged "Cyber Attack"

President Donald Trump's remarks questioning whether Iran had hacked water systems in Minnesota sparked anger online Friday.

Trump pushed back on the U.S. and state officials' reports about Iran hacking in Minnesota and several other states during a cabinet meeting at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland.

"We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent."...

The U.S. Navy has sounded the alarm in an urgent warning for sailors and their families to secure their social media as the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran has prompted an increase in online threats, according to reports on Monday.

In an unclassified memo, Secretary John Phelan told Navy personnel that “adversary cyber actors” were looking to “psychologically influence” service members, potentially using their family members to coerce them into opening potentially malicious links and files, The Hill reported.

“In response to Operation EPIC FURY, adversary cyber actors are conducting a social engineering campaign actively targeting Department of the Navy (DON) personnel and their families via spear phishing and social media contacts,” according to the memo from April 17. ...

The data of millions of Americans is at risk after a global cyberattack hit the United States earlier this week, CNN reports.

On Thursday, CNN exclusively reported the cyberattack hit "federal agencies, state governments, private corporations, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions in the" U.S.

The hack also affected "employees of the BBC, British Airways, oil giant Shell, and state governments in Minnesota and Illinois, among others," according to the report....

ATHENS — Greek police said Monday they had arrested an 18-year-old suspected of hacking into the justice ministry's website earlier this month, an attack claimed on behalf of online hackers group Anonymous.

Iran has moved most of its government websites to local hosts to protect them from cyber attacks, the country's deputy communications minister said on Thursday.

BRUSSELS (AFP) – Cyber-attackers hacked into the European Commission on Wednesday, hours from a sensitive summit of EU leaders debating the military campaign in Libya, the euro debt crisis and nuclear safety, officials said.