1. MACRON EMAIL LEAK
Just 48 hours before the run-off poll between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, a 9GB cache of emails from Macron’s
En Marche! party was posted on PasteBin, a filesharing platform. They were spread to
WikiLeaks. “The attacks were so simple and generic that it could have been practically anyone,” France’s cybersecurity chief said.
2. BANGLADESH BANK HEIST
InFebruary 2016, hackers got the login credentials used by Bangladesh Central Bank for the internationalbanking transfer system SWIFT. They triedto transfer $951m to accounts in Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Most transactions were flagged,
but $101m was removed. A Trojan known as Dridex was used, which hides in MS Word or Excel attachments.
3. WANNACRY ATTACK
OnMay 12, 2017, a global ransomware attack affected more than 2,30,000 computers, including PCs in the NHS, FedEx and DeutscheBahn. The malware was leaked from the NSA, and targeted machines runningWindows XP and Windows 2003. The attack yielded just over $1,26,000 in payments and caused considerable upheaval.
4. YAHOO! BREACH
In 2016, Yahoo! was forced to confirm that its systems had been breached twice, in 2013 and 2014, resulting in the loss of more than a billion users’ personal
information, including passwords. The hackers used fake browser cookies that allowed them to dupe
the site’s login systems. To date, it is the largest loss of customer data by any single company.
5. CHIPOTLE ATTACK
TheMexican restaurant chain, which has more than 2,250 outlets in the USA, reported that, if you paid with a credit card between
March 24 and April 17, 2017, your credit card
details had almost certainly been obtained by hackers. The attack vector has not been
confirmed, but the malware involved allegedly
read the card data directly from the machines as they took payment.
Image source : Wikimedia
Just 48 hours before the run-off poll between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, a 9GB cache of emails from Macron’s
En Marche! party was posted on PasteBin, a filesharing platform. They were spread to
WikiLeaks. “The attacks were so simple and generic that it could have been practically anyone,” France’s cybersecurity chief said.
2. BANGLADESH BANK HEIST
InFebruary 2016, hackers got the login credentials used by Bangladesh Central Bank for the internationalbanking transfer system SWIFT. They triedto transfer $951m to accounts in Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Most transactions were flagged,
but $101m was removed. A Trojan known as Dridex was used, which hides in MS Word or Excel attachments.
3. WANNACRY ATTACK
OnMay 12, 2017, a global ransomware attack affected more than 2,30,000 computers, including PCs in the NHS, FedEx and DeutscheBahn. The malware was leaked from the NSA, and targeted machines runningWindows XP and Windows 2003. The attack yielded just over $1,26,000 in payments and caused considerable upheaval.
4. YAHOO! BREACH
In 2016, Yahoo! was forced to confirm that its systems had been breached twice, in 2013 and 2014, resulting in the loss of more than a billion users’ personal
information, including passwords. The hackers used fake browser cookies that allowed them to dupe
the site’s login systems. To date, it is the largest loss of customer data by any single company.
5. CHIPOTLE ATTACK
TheMexican restaurant chain, which has more than 2,250 outlets in the USA, reported that, if you paid with a credit card between
March 24 and April 17, 2017, your credit card
details had almost certainly been obtained by hackers. The attack vector has not been
confirmed, but the malware involved allegedly
read the card data directly from the machines as they took payment.
Image source : Wikimedia
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