In September 2020, the hospital's entire digital infrastructure was compromised by a ransomware attack. A 78-year-old woman was in dire need of medical care, but she was turned away from her local hospital due to reduced capacity caused by the network...
In 2010, the discovery of Stuxnet marked a turning point in cybersecurity, revealing that cyberspace could be weaponized for military and intelligence operations. Stuxnet, a sophisticated computer worm, targeted SCADA industrial control systems at ura...
In December 2025, the GNV ferry Fantastic, which sails between Sète and North Africa, was the target of a suspected cyberattack, prompting investigations by French and Italian authorities. GNV alerted authorities after discovering a Remote Access Troj...
NetApp has initiated legal action against its former Chief Technology Officer, Jón Thorgrímur Stefánsson, alleging that he misused confidential company information to establish a competing startup, Red Stapler, while still employed at NetApp. The laws...
In November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University graduate student, unleashed the Morris worm, considered the first major cyberattack, onto the early internet. This worm, designed to gauge the size of the internet, spread rapidly, infecting...
In April 2025, Jeffrey Bowie, the CEO of the cybersecurity firm Veritaco, was arrested and charged with two counts of violating the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act. The charges stem from an incident on August 6, 2024, at SSM Health's St. Anthony Hospital...
A North Korean state-sponsored hacking group attempted to breach security awareness training platform KnowBe4 by leveraging a stolen identity to gain employment within the company. The hacker created a believable persona using a valid U.S.-based ident...
In February 2024, the company experienced a significant cybersecurity breach. Initially, the company publicly acknowledged the attack and confirmed data had been stolen, including sensitive personal information of its customers. By May 2024, the d...
In February 2024, the company experienced a network disruption due to a cybersecurity incident. The company said it suspected a "nation-state group" was behind the attack. Ransomware group BlackCat claimed responsibility for the attack. The followi...
## Summary of Cyber Security Event: Deepfake Business Email Compromise (BEC) Scam A sophisticated cybercrime incident has surfaced involving the use of deepfake technology in a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam targeting a multinational firm. The ...
Cyber Security Case Studies has worked with a number of groups to develop these risk effect categories which represent a plain-english description of the impacts seen in public cyber events alongside their definition: