Tag: hack

Gyrodata

Personal employee information stolen in Gyrodata ransomware attack

Oil drilling services company Gyrodata has been hit by a data security incident after an unauthorized hacker was able to gain access to certain company systems, and steal the personal information of some current and former company employees. The incident…

Nuclear Power

India officials confirm cyber-attack on nuclear power plant network

India’s Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant initially denied an attack. On October 30, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited confirmed a cyber attack on its computer network. According to a statement, while malware was identified in NPCIL’s network, plant systems were not…

Xenotime hacker group

Xenotime Triton Hackers Target U.S Power Grids

Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos announced that dangerous hackers from Xenotime were now targeting power grids in the United States. The group, known as Xenotime is believed to be responsible for the now infamous Triton malware attacks on the oil and…

Aerial view of multiple offshore oil rigs in the ocean with one rig being actively extinguished by water sprayed from a nearby ship due to a fire or emergency. Various equipment and support vessels are present around the rigs.

Energy Cyber Security professionals are under pressure from relentless hackers

Oil and gas companies, including some of the most celebrated industry names in the Houston area, are facing increasingly sophisticated hackers seeking to steal trade secrets and disrupt operations, according to a newspaper investigation and energy cyber folks are under…