#cyber attack

A budget of €8.5 million will be allocated to combat future cyberattacks, Deputy Minister of Research Nicodemos Damianou told the House audit committee on Thursday. “For the first time, we have ...

Telecom company Epic on Friday said there was no evidence of a data breach on its systems so far, after a leak purporting to show 46 users and their passwords was ...

An attempted cyberattack on Hermes Airports’ website was averted on Friday, according to communications director Maria Kouroupi, who assured that airport operations were not affected. Kouroupi told the Cyprus News ...

Almost 50 percent of Cyprus’ businesses experienced a cyberattack in the past year, with half of them paying an average of €27,000, the digital security authority revealed on Thursday, following two studies ...

New EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity will increase critical infrastructures in Cyprus to 700 from the current 70, Communications Commissioner George Michaelides said on Friday. Within 2024, new legislation will be ready to adopt ...

Resistance to reforms and changes promoted comes from the effort to protect specific interests but the government will not succumb to such pressures, Justice Minister Anna Koukkides Procopiou said on ...

By Sarah Ktisti Employees at the Department of Information Technology Services (DITS) on Friday laid the blame for damage to servers at the finance ministry due to a water leak ...

A cybersecurity plan set to operate 24 hours a day has been drawn up by the deputy ministry of research, innovation, and digital policy and the digital security authority, Deputy Minister ...

The UK government’s cyber defence agency warned on Wednesday of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and its war on Ukraine. ...

A government system to help improve cyber security has been sitting idly since 2019, Deputy Research Minister Philippos Hadjizacharias admitted on Thursday, as services were reeling after a number of hacks ...

After a “thorough evaluation of all data”, the land registry department on Sunday said the technical problem that saw it go offline since Wednesday was due to a “cyber attack” ...

Government digital infrastructure in Montenegro has been hit by an “unprecedented” cyber attack and timely measures have been taken to mitigate its impact, authorities said on Friday. “Certain services were ...

Amazon.com Inc said its online stores had returned to normal services after a global outage disrupted shopping on its country sites. E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc’s online store ...

The hackers suspected to be behind a mass ransomware attack that affected hundreds of companies worldwide late on Sunday demanded $70 million to restore the data, according to a posting on ...

The White House said on Sunday it was reaching out to victims of a wide-ranging ransomware outbreak that is centered on a Florida-based information technology company and has had an ...

Russia will work with the United States to locate cyber criminals, the head of the FSB security service said on Wednesday, a week after the countries’ leaders agreed to step ...

Brazil’s JBS SA told the U.S. government that a ransomware attack on the company that disrupted meat production in North America and Australia originated from a criminal organization ...

The House of Representatives confirmed on Thursday that its website fell victim to a cyber-attack last month. In a statement, the House said the Digital Security Authority which investigated the ...