Cyber Security Case Studies

When this breach was disclosed it was considered the largest espionage coup of all time, one of the biggest ever on US government systems and possibly the single most damaging breach to US national security. The data theft consisted of stealing de...

In August 2015, the US networking firm disclosed that cyber attackers stole USD $46.7 million using a business email compromise attack in which attackers pretend to be executives at the victim company to initiate unauthorised international wire transf...

Two separate hacker groups worked in collaboration with a foreign government to launch a series of phishing attacks against RSA employees, posing as people the employees trusted, to penetrate the company's network. The impact of the cyberattack that ...

Attackers targeted the major US retailer via a phishing campaign on one of its third-party vendors. The vendor downloaded a file containing a virus which was designed to collect all of the data entered within the system. From here the attackers were a...

In May 2013, the satirical news publication suffered a cyber attack where employees were targeted with phishing emails by members of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The SEA used the access to post content to the organisation's official social med...