Cyber Security Roundup for March 2018
In the wake of the global political fallout over the Salisbury nerve agent attack, there are reports of a growing threat of Russian state or Russian state-affiliated hacking groups conducting cyber attack reprisals against UK organisations, government officials have directly warned bosses at electricity, gas and water firms, Whitehall departments and NHS hospitals to prepare for a state-sponsored cyber assault . Russian group Fancy Bear (APT28) were suspected of being behind an unsuccessful attack against the UK anti-doping agency , and China tied hacking group APT15 were found to have infiltrated a UK government contractor’s computer systems by NCC researchers . Large-scale data breaches were disclosed with Under Armour’s Fitness App MyFitnessPal (1.5 million personal records compromised) , Orbitz (880k payment cards at risk) , and at a Walmart partner (1.3 million personal records compromised) . The latter was caused when an AWS S3 bucket holding a Walmart dat...