Month: October 2023

The British Library, which has locations in London and North Yorkshire announced on Saturday that it had been targeted by a cyber attack. In a post on X just before 10:00 am Saturday, the library said that it was experiencing some technical issues affecting its web services. Shortly after 11:00 […]

Roundcube, the popular opensource email service is being actively targeted by a threat actor who’s past attacks align themselves with the objectives of the Russian and Belarusian governments. The threat actor is tracked as Winter Viven and has been seen exploiting a recent vulnerability in the RoundCube service’s which allows […]

It’s been a bit quiet on the LockBit front for a while – They have claimed a number of scalps in the last 2 months or so, but nothing on the scale of previous victims. That all changed on Friday. On Friday, LockBit posted to their dark web leak site […]

A recent report by independent journalists and researchers from 404media.co highlights an emerging trend which shows that some ransomware gangs are turning to another type of criminal gang to further their attacks – those who offer Violence-as-a-Service In order to gain access to high-profile targets, when traditional social engineering attacks […]

In 2020, Apple released a feature for iPhone/iPad users that promised a degree of privacy when users joined wireless networks. This week they released an update that fixed the fact that the previous update didn’t work. The feature Apple rolled out 3 years ago was one which Apple said hid […]

The annual Pwn2Own Toronto event started this week with contestants from all over the world flexing their skills against some of the latest tech to win large sums of cash (and Kudos). The 4-day event, which is put together by the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative allows hackers, pentesters, and […]

Members of a cyber crime gang comprising of 34 people located in various parts of Spain have been arrested in a complex series of raids. Agents of the National Police conducted 16 raids in towns in the provinces of Madrid, Málaga, Huelva, Alicante and Murcia where two simulated firearms, a […]

In one of the biggest cases of irony so far, Okta, one of the worlds leading providers of Identity and access management systems to millions of customers all across the world were breached with stolen identity token for its customer case management portal. The latest incident is another example of […]

Over 50,000 Cisco XE devices have been compromised via a preciously unknown vulnerability. Cisco discovered active exploitation of the new vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2023-20198 in their IOS XE software’s Web UI. Devices with exposed HTTP/HTTPS ports were affected. Cisco researchers first identified suspicious activity on September 18th. This activity […]

Just over a week ago, I posted that Google had now made the use of passkeys the default option for signing in to your Google accounts. Well, the use of passkeys instead of Passwords is growing. Microsoft have now implemented a dedicated passkey manager in the latest Windows 11 update. […]