Month: May 2024

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 […]

(8th May 2024) sees OFCOM – The UK’s telecommunications regulator, set out a series of steps aimed at online content providers – predominantly Social Media operators to help protect children when using Internet services. The steps allow OFCOM to enforce the regulations set out in the Online Safety Act 2023 […]

At 14:00 UTC today (7th May 2024) – Law enforcement officers working for the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and partners in the US and Europe, released updates about the LockBit ransomware group as part of their ongoing work to disrupt the threat actor responsible for some of the worlds […]

Ahead of the release of new data regarding LockBit – it looks like they have been pretty busy releasing details of new victims. In the last 24 hours, Lockbit have posted details of almost 60 new victims, including: Could this be LockBits last-ditch two-finger salute to the upcoming NCA release […]

Today sees an update about the ongoing LockBit saga. Readers of my posts over the last year will know that I have written many times about the antics of this threat actor, and some of the devastating attacks they have been responsible for. My last post concerning them was the […]

In the previous post, I covered the SMB protocol and how it has become one of the most widely used protocols in modern networks in one form or another regardless of operating system used. This post covers the flip side of the love / hate relationship it has in the […]

Server Message Block (SMB) is one of the most important protocols in computer history – it facilitates the sharing of multiple resources in IT networks – printers, computers, files, and much more. It is one of the most widely used protocols in modern networks. It’s also a protocol that has […]