Stewart Lewis reports: Operations at the Kelowna, B.C., airport (YLW) were disrupted Tuesday evening after its passenger information screens and public address systems were overtaken in a terrorist cyberattack. The incident began about 5:15 p.m., when pro-Hamas messaging could be seen and heard throughout the airport. A message took over flight information screens announcing the system was...

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Greg Otto reports: F5, a company that specializes in application security and delivery technology, disclosed Wednesday that it had been the target of what it’s calling a “highly sophisticated” cyberattack, which it attributes to a nation-state actor. The announcement follows authorization from the U.S. Department of Justice, which allowed F5 to delay public disclosure of...

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Sean Lyngaas of CNN reports: Suspected Chinese government-backed hackers have breached computer systems of U.S. law firm Williams & Connolly, which has represented some of America’s most powerful politicians, as part of a larger spying campaign against multiple law firms, according to a letter the firm sent clients and a source familiar with the hack....

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Sania Kozatskyi reports: Cyber specialists of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine have gained full access to all computers and servers of the self-proclaimed authorities in temporarily occupied Crimea. Sources within the agency reported this to Militarnyi. As part of the operation, they obtained over 100 terabytes of intelligence data, including official correspondence of the so-called “head of...

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Kosher Israeli internet provider, Internet Rimon, which provides Internet filtering services for the religious and haredi sectors, was hacked by an Iranian cyberattack group. Moshe Lampert reports: On Saturday night Iranian hackers, known as the “Promised Revenge,” hacked the Rimon Internet Provider, which provides Internet filtering services for the religious and haredi sectors. The incident...

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Marine Insight reports that an attack on Fannava, an Iranian firm that offers satellite communications, has disrupted communications for 30 oil tankers and 25 cargo ships, severing links between ships and their ports. A hacking group which calls itself ‘Lip-Dochtjan’ or The Sewn Lips told Iran International that it had breached the systems of the...

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