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This was a serious matter for us, says Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), who manages the oil fund, in an interview with The Norwegian Business Daily, DN. The 11179 billion NOK fund downloaded a compromised version of the company's Orion platform and installed it in July 2020, according to Ihenacho.
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(Reuters) - Hackers have spent up to three years breaking into organizations by targeting monitoring software made by the French company Centreon, France's cybersecurity watchdog said on Monday. The watchdog, known by its French acronym ANSSI, stopped short of identifying the hackers but said they had a similar modus operandi as the Russian cyberespionage group often nicknamed "Sandworm."
Image: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Jones Day did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but confirmed the hack in a statement to The Wall Street Journal, in which the law firm blamed the data breach on Accellion, a company that provides a file sharing system and that was recently hacked.
Members of the Egregor ransomware cartel have been arrested this week in Ukraine, French radio station France Inter reported on Friday, citing law enforcement sources. The arrests, which have not been formally announced, are the result of a joint investigation between French and Ukrainian police.
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Electronics manufacturer Casio hit a hacker-hobbyist who converted an old scientific calculator to a Wifi-enabled smart device with a DMCA takedown notice, claiming that he copied the company's code to do so.
They stole nine bags, two belts, five scarves, two earrings, two brooches, a necklace, a bracelet, a wallet, a suitcase and €1,000 in cash, Italian media report. In total this was worth tens of thousands of euros.
Highly sensitive notes from therapy sessions were published online in an attempt to blackmail patients Hackers bragged about the poor state of firm's security Vastaamo, the Finnish psychotherapy practice that covered up a horrific security breach which resulted in patients receiving blackmail threats, has declared itself bankrupt.
WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued a joint cybersecurity advisory about North Korean government malicious activity the U.S. government refers to as "AppleJeus."