DefenceTalkAt 2:00 a.m. on a day in early February, the deputy director of the main hospital in the southwestern French town of Dax took an urgent call from a normally unflappable colleague in the IT department. “He’s usually very calm, but I could tell in his voice that there was something very unusual,” Aline Gilet-Caubere […]

DefenceTalkA senior US official said Friday the Biden administration is close to a decision on retaliation for state-sponsored hacking as fears grew over the fallout from the latest of two major cyberattacks. The official said the White House was working closely with the private sector to ramp up cyber defenses following the attacks which targeted […]

DefenceTalkGovernments and computer experts girded Monday for a possible worsening of the global cyberattack that has hit more than 150 countries, as Microsoft warned against stockpiling vulnerabilities like the one at the heart of the crisis. European policing and security agencies said the fallout from a ransomware attack that has already crippled more than 200,000 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/world-braces-for-more-cyberattacks-as-work-week-begins-69968/

DefenceTalk“Hundreds of thousands” of Chinese computers at nearly 30,000 institutions including government agencies have been hit by the global ransomware attack, a leading Chinese security-software provider has said, though the Asian impact has otherwise been relatively muted. The enterprise-security division of Qihoo 360, one of China’s leading suppliers of anti-virus software, said 29,372 institutions ranging […]https://www.defencetalk.com/ransomware-hits-hundreds-of-thousands-of-china-pcs-firm-69964/