cyberattack
Incident blamed on 'relatively new' gang of cybercriminals.
“This could be a new era for packet rate attacks: with botnets possibly capable of issuing billions of packets per second. It could seriously challenge how anti-DDoS infrastructures are built and scaled."
"Right now, *no one* has died from a cyberattack that has targeted or shut down a hospital, but actuarial data shows that more than 300 people *probably* died as a result of WannaCry"
Personal data of a "substantial proportion" of Americans stolen from systems.
Low tech, highly inconvenient cyber assault comes just weeks after Ukraine cooperation deal
"This actor is not doing the quiet intelligence collection and theft of secrets... they can disrupt major services if, and when, the order comes down,"
"Over 102.4 million records were breached via ransomware attacks on tech companies in 2023–a staggering 2,300 percent increase on 2022’s figure of 4.26 million. It’s also the highest number recorded across any industry since we began tracking confirmed ransomware attacks in 2018..."
