There’s been an uptick in cyber threats related to the pandemic, according to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. In a number of cases, the targets have been front-line health-care facilities. Shallima Maharaj takes a closer look at a growing threat from the digital realm.

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Canada

Global News

The Global Herald

‘Epidemic of cybercrime’ underway in midst of pandemic, security expert warns

The iPhones of about a dozen US State Department employees serving in Africa were hacked with spyware developed by Israeli technology firm NSO Group in recent months, according to a senior US official familiar with the investigation and another source familiar with the matter.

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Apple

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News18 India

U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

The government has been fined £500,000 for mistakenly sharing the postal addresses of more than 1,000 New Year Honours recipients online.



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Celebrity

Elton John

London, England

London

BBC News

Daily Mirror

The Independent

Sky News

Government fined £500,000 for New Year honours data breach

Recent hacker attacks are propelling new and more diverse cybersecurity recruitment.

Axios

U.S. faces urgent anti-hacker crisis

The Office of the Secretary to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says that there's been an 'unauthorized access to its internal network,' with the scope of the breach still under investigation. According to a statement issued Thursday morning, the office is working with the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security on the investigation and 'took immediate action to strengthen its network.'

Ottawa, Ontario

Ottawa

CTV News

The Toronto Star

Winnipeg Free Press 

Governor General's office says internal network breached

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles announced on Tuesday that they experienced a security breach from an unknown party in October 2021. In a statement released on their website, PPLA indicated that from October 9 to October 17, an unauthorized party had gained access to their database, exfiltrating documents that contained personal information for approximately 400,000 patients who had visited the facility.


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Planned Parenthood

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles

CBS Local

USA Today

Data on thousands of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles patients breached

The House on Wednesday passed three bipartisan bills intended to shore up network security and increase cyber literacy across the nation, following a difficult year fraught with several significant cybersecurity attacks. 



The Hill

House passes bipartisan bills to strengthen networks security, cyber literacy

Financially motivated hackers likely based in Iran are successfully targeting and stealing billions in currency from Iranian civilians through a texting campaign, new research released Wednesday found.

Tehran

Hackers targeting and stealing billions from Iranian citizens in texting scheme

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