Due to the critical nature of the information it deals with, cybersecurity challenges for media organizations are mounting. In a new incident, one of Denmark’s largest news agencies was pushed offline after they were targeted by a hacker group. In other news, three healthcare providers in the U.S. revealed being targeted by different cybercriminal groups in incidents that put patient data at risk. Read further to know about the key cybersecurity events from around the world in the past 24 hours.
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Ritzau, a news agency that delivers text and photos to Danish media, had to pull down all its servers offline following a cyberattack.
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Ransomware groups, breached into the networks of three healthcare providers in Florida, Georgia, and New York to compromise protected health information.
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Specialty networking solutions provider Belden confessed to a data incident involving theft of current and former employee data, along with some of its client’s business data.
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The Baltimore County Public Schools system was hit with a ransomware attack, shutting down all its network systems.
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Illinois Valley Community College disclosed a data breach from April that affected more than 160,000 current and former students, faculty, and applicants.
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Cyber experts have spotted a new Android mobile threat dubbed WAPDropper that subscribes unaware users to legitimate premium-rate services in Malaysia and Thailand.
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Cybercriminals were found camouflaging as government agencies to steal personal information of the victims via a fake government program that offers up to $5,800 in cash payments.
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Researchers at CyberNews analyzed 2,620 popular online shopping domains for SSL configuration security and found that 30% of them are vulnerable to SSL-based attacks.
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DefenseStorm, a cloud-based cybersecurity and cyber compliance management provider, raised $12 million in Series B funding, along with $7 million in growth capital financing.
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Texas-based professional services company Jacobs acquired Reston-based cyber solutions company The Buffalo Group LLC.
