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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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(31/08/23) Blog 243 – Qakbot botnet dismantled by FBI

On Tuesday, 29th August, the FBI released a video on its website and via YouTube detailing the operation to infiltrate and dismantle the Qakbot Botnet. The operation was dubbed Op Duck Hunt and was ca...

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31/08/2023
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(30/08/23) Blog 242 – Multiple threat actors using Lockbit 3.0 code base

Lockbit are one of the most successful ransomware gangs active on the Internet and have been responsible for some of the largest ransom demands seen. A report jointly published in June this year by mu...

Mark
30/08/2023
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(29/08/23) Blog 241 – Duolingo data scraped – 2.6m accounts harvested

A threat actor discovered a vulnerability in the API of language learning app Duolingo and used it to scrape the profile data of over 2.6 million registered users. The code bug did not verify email ad...

Mark
29/08/2023
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(28/08/23) Blog 240 – Polish rail network hacked

Poland’s Internal Security Agency – Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW) has begun investigations after the country’s rail traffic management system was hacked, bringing trains to a h...

Mark
28/08/2023
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(27/08/23) Blog 239 – French government job agency in data breach

France’s governmental unemployment registration and financial aid agency, Pôle emploi, has released a statement informing citizens that it has been the target of a cyber attack that has exposed ...

Mark
27/08/2023
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(26/08/23) Blog 238 – St Helens council hit with cyber attack

The council networks of the Merseyside town of St. Helens has been targeted with a ransomware attack. The attack began on Monday the 21st August and is still causing issues for the council and its abi...

Mark
26/08/2023
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(25/08/23) Blog 237 – Gone, it’s all gone!

A ransomware attack against the Danish cloud provider CloudNordic has completely wiped out all its customer data. The company announced the devastating news in emails to its customers and via its webs...

Mark
25/08/2023
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(24/08/23) Blog 236 – Jury finds Arion Kurtaj guilty of hacking

The latest news in the case of the teenager who targeted telecoms firms BT and EE, the silicon chip manufacturer Nvidia, and Rockstar Games is that he has been found guilty of the charges against him....

Mark
24/08/2023
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(23/08/23) Blog 235 – Spectre, Meltdown, now Downfall plagues Intel

With names straight out of an Ian Fleming novel, you would be forgiven in thinking that this post was all about 007’s latest adventures, but in fact it’s a post about transient execution C...

Mark
23/08/2023
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(22/08/23) Blog 234 – Global software supplier to energy companies hit with cyber attack

Energy One, a provider of software solutions to the wholesale energy market disabled a number of vital services late last week after it became aware of a cyber attack on its network. The company provi...

Mark
22/08/2023
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