cyberattack

"Thousands of ATGs are currently online and directly accessible over the Internet, making them prime targets for cyberattacks, especially in sabotage or cyberwarfare scenarios."

“We have introduced a number of measures to our internal systems and are working closely with the National Crime Agency," Shashi Verma says.

"Supply chains for local councils will always be the weakest link to be exploited by attackers looking for valuable information due to the vast number of services employed for operations."

“This could be a new era for packet rate attacks: with botnets possibly capable of issuing billions of packets per second. It could seriously challenge how anti-DDoS infrastructures are built and scaled."

"Right now, *no one* has died from a cyberattack that has targeted or shut down a hospital, but actuarial data shows that more than 300 people *probably* died as a result of WannaCry"

Personal data of a "substantial proportion" of Americans stolen from systems.
Low tech, highly inconvenient cyber assault comes just weeks after Ukraine cooperation deal

"This actor is not doing the quiet intelligence collection and theft of secrets... they can disrupt major services if, and when, the order comes down,"