Hackers are changing the temperature in the cooling systems of European supermarkets, and retailers are throwing away food worth millions of euros. Control panels are often available over the Internet and are insufficiently protected
Artificial intelligence finds security flaws faster than humans can patch them. The Internet could therefore soon start shutting down for maintenance, just like bridges and tunnels
The CEO of Telekom, Vladimir Lucic, says that the hacker "east of us" blackmailed the company for three bitcoins and that "in principle, there is hardly any misuse" of the stolen data.
The special department for combating high-tech crime of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade announced that it is acting on the criminal report of "Telekom Srbija" AD against unknown persons for the commission of the criminal offense of attempted extortion
For now unidentified hackers stole the data of 160.000 Telekom users. The hackers did it with the intention of blackmailing Telekom. The stolen data refers to full names, residential addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and unique citizen identification numbers (JMBG).
Forensic analysis revealed that Russian hackers accessed part of the archive and read more than 28 e-mails of the Belgrade Center for Security Policy, which has been monitoring reforms in the security sector for almost 25 years.
The accounts of students of certain blocked faculties suddenly recorded a huge number of new, phantom followers, so they were suspended. Is this a new type of bot vs student fight?
"We were immediately informed by the EPS about the hacker attack with the words that "as a precaution" they are calling us to undertake preliminary investigations because they are not sure whether personal data was compromised in the attack," said the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Protection of Personal Data Milan Marinović
For now, there is no confirmation of the authenticity of the published documents. The fact that one gigabyte contains about 10.000 documents tells us about the quantity
"Critical systems of this country are not adequately protected. It is necessary to carry out a complete audit, to bring honorable people to responsible positions", says information security expert Ivan Marković for "Vreme".
The executive director of supply in EPS, Radovan Stanić, said that EPS is not conducting an investigation, and that he cannot talk about it.
More than 100 screenshots and passwords of employees of the Republic Geodetic Institute can be found on the dark web, according to the Bezbedan Balkan forum, which gathers domestic cyber-threat experts.
In a new attack on the State Department's email, Chinese hackers stole about 60.000 emails from ten different accounts. The attack heightened tensions between China and the US. Beijing denies involvement in the hacking attack
The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) has warned citizens not to respond to SMS messages from unknown phone numbers, lately with the area code +33. It is about fake websites that are under the control of criminals, according to the NBS
Not only the conventional military, but also American and Russian cyber units were raised to a higher level of combat readiness after the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Both of them know the weak points of their opponents, but a direct confrontation on the Internet has not yet occurred because the damage on both sides would be enormous. The US, however, has one significant advantage: almost all of the resources that represent the backbone of the Internet are under the control of the US Department of Commerce
