Year: 2024

Car dealerships across the United States and Canada have been targeted in a multi-pronged attack focused mainly against cloud services provider CDK Global. 1st attack The attack started on the 18th June with a cyber attack that was so severe, the company had no option but to shut down its […]

Security researchers working for Volexity have discovered a novel malware which uses Emojis sent via a custom Discord server that has the ability to control compromised Linux distributions. Volexity state that the malware seen is so far only focused on a specific Linux distro – BOSS – which is primarily […]

The FBI’s Cyber Division Assistant Director – Bryan Vorndran announced on Wednesday that they were now in the possession of in excess of 7,000 encryption keys used by LockBit in their ransomware attacks. The announcement came during a keynote speech at the 2024 Boston Conference on Cyber Security. Assistant Director […]

A critical incident has been declared by Synnovis – the pathology system provider to London hospitals Guy’s and St. Thomas, and King’s College. The cyber attack against Synnovis has forced the hospitals to disconnect from Synnovis servers meaning that crucial services such as blood transfusions cannot be managed. This is […]

Yesterday I posted about the Managed Service Provider – Snowflake – which had been suspected to be the root cause of the breaches against TicketMaster & Santander. Late yesterday, Snowflake issued a formal statement, categorically denying that they were the weak point which led to the data leaks affecting the […]

The recent breach against Ticketmaster was highly-likely the result of a supply chain attack against a Managed Service Provider – The same provider which is also suspected to be the source of the attack against banking giant Santander. I wrote about the Ticketmaster breach on Friday – at the time […]

In the fast moving world of cyber crime, updates often come thick and fast – Operation Endgame seems to be one of those times. Since my original post yesterday, some of the law enforcement agencies involved in the operation have already released more information relating to the searches and arrests. […]

You have most likely seen this in the news, but I wanted to wait until things were confirmed before writing a post about it – but yes, it does seem true that Ticketmaster has been breached. So if you have ever used the TicketMaster platform to by event tickets, it’s […]

This week has seen the launch of a new approach to tackling cyber crime from law enforcement agencies across the globe. Operation Endgame is the name given to a series of ongoing actions to close down the illegal activities of numerous cyber crime gangs, but in a new move these […]

Friday (24th May 2024) saw the online posting of the Ring video doorbell footage of the arrest of Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (A.K.A. Pompompurin) – The administrator of the online data-leak forum – Breached. The footage has been obtained by someone who apparently has hacked the Ring account of Fitzpatrick and […]