Reports are circulating about a massive data leak dubbed the ‘Mother of all Breaches’ (MOAB) containing data from previous breaches and comprising 12 terabytes of information. This spans 26 billion records and the leak is believed to be the largest ever discovered and includes records from thousands of meticulously compiled and reindexed leaks, breaches and […]

British Government denies media reports of cybersecurity attacks on nuclear site Sellafield but Office for Nuclear Regulation admits improvements are required. Meanwhile, industry figures react. The British Government has denied media reports over claims regarding serious cybersecurity breaches at nuclear site Sellafield. The Guardian published a series of claims about cybersecurity at the UK nuclear […]

With the support of Europol and Eurojust, the Czech and Ukrainian police have disrupted a prolific phishing gang believed to have defrauded victims across Europe of tens of millions of euros. In Czechia alone, the damage caused by this criminal group is estimated at over €8 million (CZK 195,000,000). As a result of this investigation, […]

It has been announced that a cyberattack on CTS, a legal sector specialist infrastructure service provider, is causing delays to house sales and purchases across the UK. The company made a statement on its website which read: ‘We are experiencing a service outage which has impacted a portion of the services we deliver to some of […]

It has been reported that the Idaho National Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy and one of the country’s foremost advanced nuclear energy testing labs, experienced a massive data breach on the night of Sunday November 26, leading to the leak of employee addresses, Social Security numbers, bank account information and much more. INL […]

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Republic of Korea have issued a warning of state-linked cyber threats attacking software supply chain from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The NCSC and the Republic of Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) have issued a joint advisory on advanced methods to attack global organisations, using highly […]

The British Library has experienced ‘a major technology outage as a result of a cyber incident’, according to its X (Twitter) account. The organisation said in a statement that it is investigating the incident, which has affected its website and online systems, with NCSC and other specialists. Spencer Starkey, VP EMEA at SonicWall, stresses the […]

The government has opened an inquiry into the UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) to assess its cyber-resiliency as the UK is highlighted to be the third most targeted globally for cyberattacks, following the US and Ukraine. Overseen by the Science, Innovation and Technology committee, the inquiry will explore the progress of the UK CNI towards […]

WithSecure researchers have tracked attacks using DarkGate malware to an active cluster of cybercriminals operating out of Vietnam. DarkGate is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that has been used in attacks since at least 2018 and is currently available to cybercriminals as Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS). It has a diverse user base and a variety of capabilities. […]

It has been reported that Pizza Hut Australia has been hit by a cyberattack, the company has revealed, with customer data including delivery addresses and order details stolen in the hack. Javvad Malik, Lead Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, commented on the news: “Pizza Hut Australia’s swift response in engaging forensic and cybersecurity specialists is […]