Below is a summary of incidents from over the last months. For the full list, click the download link at the end of this article.
July 2024: South Korea’s military is investigating the leak of highly sensitive information on Seoul’s espionage activities and issued an arrest warrant for a suspect. The information included personal data on Seoul’s non-official agents conducting undercover espionage overseas. The information was transferred to the suspect’s personal laptop before being leaked. Lawmakers said the leak was first discovered in June and was not the result of a hack.
July 2024: A faulty software update for Microsoft Windows issues by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike caused a global IT outage that disrupted airline and hospital operations. It affected approximately 8.5 million machines and cost Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion, according to reports.
July 2024: Germany accused China of directing a “serious” cyberattack against Germany’s Federal Office for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG), which conducts precision mapping of the entire country, in 2021. The findings come at the end of a three-year investigation into the incident and as Germany plans a rip-and-replace project for Chinese telecommunications infrastructure in Germany over security concerns.
July 2024: Australia, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand issued a warning about malicious Chinese state-sponsored cyber activity in their networks. It marked the first time South Korea and Japan joined with Australia to attribute malicious cyber actions to China, and the first time Australia led a cyber attribution effort against China.
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