Hamish Price

A sponsored state cyber-attack is most likely behind the attack that disrupted the live broadcast on Australia’s Channel Nine TV network on Sunday this week. The broadcaster discovered that it was not able to go on air for its normal Sunday morning programmes, forcing it to tweet “A cyber-attack on our systems has disrupted live […]

Earlier this week Sierra Wireless, a leading IoT manufacturer reported it was halting production in its manufacturing sites, taking offline key IT Systems and websites, as a result of suffering a ransomware attack. Sierra Wireless products include network devices, routers, modems and other communications devices. The company believe that none of its customer facing products

A massive Microsoft cyber attack following on from the huge SolarWinds attack from last year is emphasising how important it is for organisation to extend their cyber security controls through outsourced Security Operations Centres, also known as outsourced SOC. No longer are small, in-house standalone teams able to flex to the increasing number of sophisticated

A report detailing the Operational Technology Cyber Attack on India’s power grid by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors ‘Red Echo’, has sparked accusations and denials this week. On October 12th 2020, grid failure in Mumbai resulted in a 2 hour power outage, shutting business and stopping national transport. The outage even shutdown the Mumbai’s stock exchange.

Shares in Beneteau, the sailing yacht and boat builder, dropped on Monday by 2.1% as a result of a cyber attack that started on February 18th. Beneteau confirmed on Sunday night that a malware attack has taken grip of the company. The company detected a malware intrusion during the night of February 18th and disconnected

North Korea is accused of attempting to steal Covid-19 vaccine information from the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer. The apparent cyber attack was probably an attempt to steal chemical formula and production data regarding the Covid-19 vaccine, reported South Korea’s intelligence officials to lawmakers this week. The attack, similar to the attacks believed to be of

Almost the entire population of Brazil is now at risk of what could be the largest ever breach in history.   On January 19, 2021, it was discovered that the private data of over 220 million Brazilian citizens was leaked. The source of the leak is currently unknown.   Unfortunately, this is not the first time Brazil has

The cyber security company SonicWall officially stated it was the victim of a coordinated attack on its internal systems. The networking device maker said on Friday night that it is investigating a security breach that looked to be a part of a “coordinated attack” by “highly sophisticated” hackers. This is over a period where the company has