Computer systems of Swedish government agencies made inoperable by an attack on a Tietoevry Oyj data centre may be down for weeks, the country’s civil defense minister said. The ransomware attack carried out during the weekend by a group known as Akira has crippled payroll processing at a large number of institutions, and caused additional problems at hospitals, cinemas and other businesses.... At a news conference on Friday, Carl-Oskar Bohlin said 178 reports have been filed on potential perso

," according to the filing. The activity--deemed a cyberattack--damaged portions of the company's IT

emergency managers to prepare to respond to a “ cyber–Pearl Harbor ” —a cyberattack with widespread

destructive cyberattacks inside Ukraine.... The Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately return a

“ hacker ” corps is much more than a paramilitary cyberattack force in Europe’s first major war of

U.S. government networks were hit by a cyberattack affecting several federal agencies

“ There are ballistic missiles here.” “ This is terrible.... He would not name the targets but said they were “ large organisations ”.... ESET was unable to say who was responsible. Symantec Threat Intelligence detected three organisations hit by the wiper malware – Ukrainian government contractors in Latvia and Lithuania and a financial institution in Ukraine, said Vikram Thakur, its technical director....

They were also used against Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008. Distributed-denial-of-service attacks are among the least impactful because they don’t entail network intrusion.... Many of the same sites were similarly knocked offline Feb.... 13-14 in DDoS attacks that the U.S. and U.K. governments quickly blamed on Russia’s GRU military intelligence agencyWednesday’s DDoS attacks appeared less impactful than the earlier onslaught — with targeted sites soon reachable again — as emergency respo

{{/ verifyErrors}} A hacking group allegedly connected to Russian military intelligence carried out a cyberattack

damage had been caused....