It has been reported that Japanese consumer electronics giant, Panasonic, has disclosed a security breach wherein an unauthorised third-party broke into its network and potentially accessed data from one of its file servers.  ‘As the result of an internal investigation, it was determined that some data on a file server had been accessed during the […]

Nordic Choice Hotels, one of the Nordic region’s largest hotel chains, has confirmed it was the target of a cyberattack on its systems from the Conti ransomware group. The incident primarily impacts the hotel’s guest reservation and room key card systems. Although there is no indication of passwords or payment information being affected, information pertaining to […]

Medatixx, a German medical software vendor whose products are used in over 21,000 health institutions, urges customers to change their application passwords following a ransomware attack that has severely impaired its entire operations. The firm clarified that the impact has not reached clients and is limited to its internal IT systems and shouldn’t affect any of […]

Costco Wholesale Corporation has warned customers in notification letters that their payment card information might have been stolen while recently shopping at one of its stores. The retail giant (also known as Costco Wholesale and Costco) is an American multinational that operates a large chain of membership-only retail stores, the fifth-largest retailer worldwide, and the 10th largest corporation in the US by […]

Robinhood announced that its popular app has suffered a breach, exposing millions of email addresses, names and more. In a statement released on November 8, Robinhood said it discovered the incident on the evening of November 3, explaining that an ‘unauthorised third party’ managed to obtain personal information of its customers. The company was quick to say that no […]

Europol has announced the arrest of several suspected REvil ransomware group suspects, while almost simultaneously the US Justice Department announced the indictment and seizure of millions of dollars from the individual suspected of launching the Kaseya ransomware attack earlier this year. Steve Forbes, Government Cybersecurity Expert at Nominet, said: “The tables are turning for ransomware […]

Ransomware group, BlackMatter, has claimed that some of its key members are no longer ‘available’ and has reported a closure of its operations effective from November 5. In a statement attributed to the group and translated from Russian, posted on its online Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) portal, it said: ‘Due to certain unsolvable circumstances associated with pressure […]

The Labour Party has confirmed it has been hit by a cyberattack, which it was informed of on October 29. The incident had resulted in a significant quantity of party data being rendered inaccessible on its systems. The party released a statement about the incident: ‘As soon as the party was notified of these matters, […]

Researchers with the University of Cambridge have discovered a bug that affects most computer code compilers and many software development environments. At issue is a component of the digital text encoding standard Unicode, which allows computers to exchange information regardless of the language used. Unicode currently defines more than 143,000 characters across 154 different language […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns that ransomware gangs are targeting companies involved in ‘time-sensitive financial events’ such as corporate mergers and acquisitions, to make it easier to extort their victims. In a private industry notification published recently, the FBI said ransomware operators would use the financial information collected before attacks as leverage to force […]