Year: 2023

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) issued a statement yesterday stating that they had sanctioned a crypto-currency mixing service which has processed millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency stolen by the North Korean Lazarus group. The service – sinbad.io – was a mixing service that […]

A series of raids conducted across Ukraine has seen law enforcement officers from the Ukrainian National Police, Europol, Norway, France, Germany, and the USA arrest five members of a ransomware gang which has compromised many organisations across 71 different countries. On the 21st November, 30 properties were searched in the […]

Cyber security experts are working to recover systems at Slovenia’s biggest power distribution supplier – HSE which was hit with a ransomware attack on Wednesday 22nd November. Officials at HSE reported on Sunday that the situation was under control, assessing there appeared to be no major damage, but could not […]

Today sees the publication of a new guidance document from the NCSC – Guidelines for secure AI Systems development. Unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere for the past 12 months, you will not have failed to notice the explosion of new AI systems. The AI Tools directory list […]

A malware campaign designed to trick users into installing malicious code under the guise of a browser update has now started to target Apple Mac users. The campaign which is called ClearFake, first started to be seen in July of this year targeting users of the Chrome browser on Windows […]

A Managed Service Provider (MSP) which supplies hundreds of UK law firms with software has been the victim of a cyber attack which has rendered its customers unable to access its case files. CTS is “urgently investigating” the cyber attack which struck on Wednesday (22nd November), apparently via the Citrixbleed […]

Anyone who has followed my posts this year will (hopefully) be acutely aware of the many issues facing organisations all over the world when it comes to cyber security. Companies big and small are hit with devastating cyber attacks on a daily basis, causing untold misery for all involved. The […]

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published it’s 1st ever Request For Comments (RFC) to create an Internet Standard. The RFC is titled “Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and Their Role in Attack Defence” and is designed as a document to help support organisations and businesses when designing secure […]

Back in September, I posted about the devastating effect a ransomware attack can have on a victim, and the sad story of KNP Logistics, which was hit with such an attack in June that they couldn’t recover from and so had to call in insolvency agents to close their business […]