A Brief Weekly Review of Top Stories that Dominated the Cyberworld

The outgoing week saw a handful of incidents that took the cyberworld by storm. From a New Zealand central bank’s IT system breach in a cyberattack to the German police taking down the world’s most notorious darknet marketplace to Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp sparking a furor by dropping a bombshell with regard to its user policy, the world of cybersecurity was witness to events that had a sweeping impact on the world of cybersecurity.  

Here is the review of the stories that made headlines in the week gone by.

New Zealand central bank IT system breached in cyberattack

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand, New Zealand’s central bank, reeled from the impact of a breach of a third-party file-sharing system used to share and store information. The bank, however, said that the attack was not specifically aimed at it, and other users of the file-sharing system from Accellion, known as File Transfer Application, were also compromised.