Tag: Cyberattack

Nova Scotia Power says former customers also impacted by breach, extends credit monitoring | CTV News

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Nova Scotia Power says it appears the hackers behind a recent cybersecurity breach also accessed the personal information of former customers. As a result, the utility is now offering five years of free credit monitoring to all customers – both past and present – whether or not they received a letter about the cybersecurity breach. “We have determined through our investigation that the personal information of former customers was also accessed on or around March 19, 2025, and later taken by an unauthorized third party, in addition to the personal…

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Nova Scotia Power resumes billing customers after ransomware attack | CBC News

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Nova Scotia Power has resumed billing customers after a ransomware attack brought some of the utility’s systems to a halt in April. The company has reopened MyAccount, the online system customers use to view and pay their bills. However, the power usage noted on the bills will be estimated until Nova Scotia Power is fully able to restore its systems. The utility says meters are still accurately recording power use, but the company is not able to retrieve the information from meters and apply it to bills. Read full story…

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83 Percent Of Routers Are Open To A High-Risk Vulnerability | Digital Trends

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A new study out by the American Consumer Institute shows that 83 percent of routers in the United States are vulnerable to cyberattacks.  The group finds that a majority of those routers have critical security vulnerabilities, primarily due to the lack of firmware updates. In testing a total of 186 routers from leading manufacturers like Netgear and Linksys, the study found that over 155 were vulnerable to potential cyberattacks. Individually, there were 172 vulnerabilities per router, and 32,003 vulnerabilities in total. Read full story here: 83 Percent Of Routers Are Open To…

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VPNFilter Malware Infecting 500,000 Devices Is Worse Than We Thought | Ars Technica

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Two weeks ago, officials in the private and public sectors warned that hackers working for the Russian government infected more than 500,000 consumer-grade routers in 54 countries with malware that could be used for a range of nefarious purposes. Now, researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team say additional analysis shows that the malware is more powerful than originally thought and runs on a much broader base of models, many from previously unaffected manufacturers. Besides covertly manipulating traffic delivered to endpoints inside an infected network, ssler is also designed to steal…

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FBI Urges Everyone To Reboot All Routers Immediately | Digital Trends

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Following reports that a type of malware has infected more than 500,000 routers used in homes and small businesses in more than 50 countries, the FBI is urging all consumers to reboot their routers. The VPNFilter malware was discovered by Cisco’s security researchers and affects routers made by Linksys, Mikrotik, Netgear, QNAP, and TP-Link. The U.S. Department of Justice said the authors of the VPNFilter were part of the Sofacy group that answered directly to the Russian government, Reuters reported, and that Ukraine was the likely target of the attack. “The VPNFilter…

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