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NotPetya cyber attack on TNT Express cost FedEx $300m
Falling victim to the Petya cyber attack cost FedEx around $300m during the last quarter of the financial year, the company has revealed in its latest earnings report. Operations of FedEx's TNT Express unit in Europe were disrupted by the attack and the company previously warned that the financial cost of the incident was likely to be significant. Read more…
Equifax hackers likely in network since March
It took Equifax 141 days to discover a breach that exposed the data of 143 million U.S. consumers with hackers likely accessing the credit monitoring firm's systems in March, a full two months before Equifax originally said they did. Read more…
Hackers May Have Traded on Stolen SEC Data
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will face a Senate committee next week following the agency's disclosure that hackers pulled secret market data from its systems and possibly used it to conduct trades. Read more…
CCleaner Malware Targeted Tech Giants Cisco, Google, Microsoft
The backdoor discovered in Avast's CCleaner targeted top tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, VMware, and Cisco. When Cisco Talos and Morphisec discovered a version of Avast CCleaner had been compromised to deliver malware, it was bad enough to learn millions of endpoints were threatened. Now, security experts say the attackers had espionage in mind. Read more…
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