On Thursday (7th September), the US and the UK announced sanctions and three indictments against eleven Russian nationals who are all alleged members of the TrickBot and Conti ransomware operations. The sanctions in the US came from the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), whereas the ones from the UK […]
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A recent report produced by the Mozilla foundation has uncovered a few eye-raising issues regarding the amount of data collected by modern vehicles. The team of researchers at Mozilla studied the T’s & C’s of 25 different makes of vehicles including those from Fiat, Jeep, BMW, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Ford, Toyota, […]
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You may remember the news last month that the UK’s electoral register was compromised and the PII (Personally Identifiable Information) of millions of registered voters was compromised. If not – here’s a brief recap: On the 8th August, the Electoral commission published a notification that: “they have a duty under […]
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Freecycle, the website for those altruistic users who wish to give away unwanted items instead of profiteering via sites such as eBay or Vinted, has been hacked. In an announcement on the organisations website, Executive Director Deron Beal said that “On the 30th August we became aware of a data […]
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Stake, the Australian-Curaçaoan gambling site which uses crypto-currency for bets has been targeted in an audacious theft which has seen over $40M worth of crypto-currencies stolen from its wallet. It appears that the theft took place over a number of transactions, but the majority of the money stolen took place in […]
Continue ReadingLidl, the discount supermarket popular across most of Europe has been removing four types of Paw Patrol branded snacks from its shelves and issuing a recall on previously sold products in a move that normally suggests a manufacturing fault, or contaminated goods. However, this recall has nothing to do with […]
Continue ReadingThis might not sound like a massive deal to anyone who isn’t an employee of Zaun – the UK fencing manufacturer and supplier, however if you are one of the company’s customers, you might be rethinking your perimeter security posture. Based in Wolverhampton and with offices in France and the […]
Continue ReadingSandworm, the hacking team believed to be unit 74455 of the Russian GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatel’noye Upravleniye) have been identified as using a set of exploits against Android devices used by the Ukrainian military. A joint report issued by the NCSC, the NSA, CISA, the FBI, NCSC-NZ, CSE and ASD on […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a quiet few weeks for Lockbit – presumably they have been away for a summer break, but it looks like they’ve been busy in the background as there has been a flurry of activity on their dark web leak site in the last couple of days. The 30th […]
Continue ReadingThe National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) has reported that a cyber security incident which occurred on the 1st August has prompted the lab to temporarily halt operations at its Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii and Gemini South Telescope in Chile. Other, smaller telescopes on Cerro Tololo in Chile were also affected. A statement […]
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