Kirsten Davies, the Pentagon’s Chief Information Officer, said the potential significance for the US of the recent supermarket freezer hacks in Europe dawned on her abruptly when she first read about them. “Holy cow! What else uses refrigeration?” she recalled of her immediate reaction, in an interview with Bloomberg News. Davies described the freezer hacks …
European supermarkets targeted in a second wave of cyberattacks that cranked up fridge and freezer temperatures were rushing on Tuesday to upgrade their systems and protect themselves against further hacking attempts. Stores in eight European countries were forced to throw away vast quantities of food after hackers tampered on Monday with their fridges, in an …
Supermarkets in Belgium and Sweden reported sudden changes in the temperatures of their fridges and freezers on Monday, sparking fears of a cyberattack similar to those that recently occurred in France. Delhaize, which is owned by Dutch retailer Ahold Delhaize, confirmed that an “IT incident” took place at about 40 of its stores in Belgium …
Advanced artificial intelligence tools may have been used in a cyberattack on South Korea’s Shinhan Bank Co. that exposed information on about 25,000 customers, Yonhap News reported, highlighting the risk of automated hacking against financial institutions. Attackers probably used sophisticated AI agents to probe for vulnerabilities and gain unauthorized access to a service used by …
A $357 million hack of crypto exchange Bitget on Thursday was likely carried out by North Korea-linked hackers, pushing the nation-state’s haul from digital-asset thefts above $1 billion this year, according to analytics firm Elliptic Enterprises Ltd. The Bitget exploit showed similarities to previous attacks attributed to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including how …
Crypto exchange Bitget reported an estimated $351.6 million in unauthorized transfers from some of its wallets and temporarily suspended withdrawals. “User funds are safe,” Chief Executive Gracy Chen said in a post on X early Friday in Singapore. “The full amount of this loss falls within the coverage of Bitget’s User Protection Fund, which currently …
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing hackers’ claims that they broke into the bureau’s systems and stole thousands of current and former employees’ data, the bureau said in a statement Sept. 23. A group known as ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the alleged hack on Tuesday. The gang said it had attacked the FBI in …
A liquefied natural gas tanker bringing fuel from the US to Europe suffered a systems failure that the crew reported as a suspected cyber attack, according to people familiar with the matter. In the latest of a number of potential cybersecurity incidents on tankers, the Vivit Africa LNG was sailing east in the Mediterranean and …