ACRO – The UK’s national office which manages criminal record information and the exchange of records with other countries, along with checks to see whether a suspect in the UK has crimina...
Yesterday (18/04/23) Microsoft announced that they had a new taxonomy for naming threat actors they track. According to the announcement, the new taxonomy is intended “to bring better clarity to...
I’ve written a number of posts about the LockBit gang so far this year, but this post is something new for them and other ransomware gangs. Details are emerging online that the LockBit gang have...
Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software) is the term used to describe any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer or computer network, leak private information, gain una...
RaidForums was a notorious marketplace for criminals to purchase stolen data, hacking tools, and pornographic material and was active for almost 7 years. Unusually for such a popular criminal website,...
Advanced Persistent Threat No.29 (APT29) A.K.A. Cozy Bear has been linked to widespread attacks targeting NATO and European Union countries. In a report released on the 13th April 2023, by Poland̵...
Microsoft have just released their monthly set of security updates, and included among the 97 security fixes is one which is classed as a critical vulnerability which if exploited can allow an attacke...
The Kodi Foundation – the operators behind the highly successful open-source media-streaming app – has disclosed that they have suffered a data breach. Investigations have determined that ...
Yum! Brands, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill was apparently hit with a ransomware attack in January 2023. Shortly after the attack, which also forced 300 UK stores t...
The opening lyrics to Mr Roboto by US Prog rock band STYX might just be one of my most tenuous titles to a blog, but when I heard of the new Dark Web marketplace for all things cyber-crime, it was the...