2017-8-14 Global Cyber Attack Reports
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TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Reports claim that a nation-state actor has breached EirGrid, Ireland’s electricity transmission company, and gained complete access to the company’s network. It is not yet clear what the attacker’s goal was in this breach, which could have been utilized to cause blackouts across Ireland. The Russian hacker group APT28 (Fancy Bear), […]
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