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INTERPOL says immediate action is required to avoid ransomware pandemic

INTERPOL Secretary General, Jürgen Stock, has called for police agencies worldwide to form a global coalition with industry partners to prevent a potential ransomware pandemic. Speaking at the INTERPOL High-Level Forum on Ransomware (July 12), Secretary General Stock said that while some solutions existed nationally or bi-laterally, effectively preventing and disrupting ransomware meant adopting the […]


IKEA France apologises for infringing data privacy of staff

Leading retail giant, IKEA, has apologised for infringing the data privacy of its employees in France after it was fined €1 million. IKEA France said that the incident – where the retailer was found guilty of collecting staff members’ private data – ‘seriously undermined the values ​​and ethical standards of the company’. Following the incident, […]


McDonald’s targeted in data breach

Leading food service retailer, McDonald’s, has announced that it has been the target of a data breach. The event affected customer data from Korea and Taiwan, but its cyber defences meant that the breach was quickly identified and there was no interruption caused to business operations.  McDonald’s Corporation said in a statement: “McDonald’s understands the […]


NCSC warns of further ransomware attacks on UK education sector

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is responding to further ransomware attacks on the education sector by cybercriminals. The government body continues to respond to an increased number of ransomware attacks affecting education establishments in the UK, including schools, colleges and universities. On Wednesday June 2, 2021, The Skinners’ Kent Academy and Skinners’ Kent Primary […]


Chinese threat group used new cyber espionage weapon on south-east Asian government

Check Point Research (CPR) has identified and blocked an ongoing surveillance operation targeting a south-east Asian government. The attackers, believed to be a Chinese threat group by CPR, systematically sent weaponised documents – that impersonated other entities within the same government – to multiple members of the target government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. CPR suspects […]


FBI receives record-level of complaints for online scams

The FBI says that complaints concerning online scams and investment fraud have now reached a record-breaking level. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received its 6 millionth complaint on May 15, 2021. While it took close to seven years for the IC3 to register its first one million reports, it took only 14 months […]


Bose Corporation confirms data breach following ransomware attack

Bose Corporation (Bose) has disclosed a data breach following a ransomware attack that hit the company’s systems in early March. In a breach notification letter filed with New Hampshire’s Office of the Attorney General, the consumer electronics company said that it ‘experienced a sophisticated cyber-incident that resulted in the deployment of malware/ransomware across its ‘environment’. […]


Brazilian malware on the rise: Kaspersky discovers new local banking Trojan is going global

Kaspersky researchers have discovered a new banking malware from Brazil, named Bizarro, targeting 70 banks from different European and South American countries. Last year, Kaspersky researchers saw several banking trojans from South America (Guildma, Javali, Melcoz and Grandoreiro), expanding their operations all over the globe. Collectively recognised as ‘the Tétrade’, these families employed a variety […]


University of Hertfordshire hit by cyberattack impacting all systems

On April 14, the University of Hertfordshire experienced a cyberattack which impacted all systems. The attack on the university’s systems disabled its Wi-Fi network, student record portal and email system. In addition, students also reported being unable to access Office 365 services, including its main collaboration platform MS Teams, as well as Canvas and Zoom. All online teaching […]


One of the largest aviation IT companies in the world is victim of cyberattack

SITA, one of the world’s largest air transport communications and IT vendors, has released a statement confirming that it was the victim of a cyberattack which led to passenger data stored on its servers to become compromised. The incident took place on February 24, 2021, and the company immediately contacted the affected customers. The incident […]


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