The other day I wrote about the complex world of ransomware – Initial Access Brokers, Affiliates, in-fighting and much more. In a timely fashion, Lockbit have just released a poll to all affilia...
A relatively new gang of cyber criminals is the prime suspect behind the recent attack against MGM International which saw the hotel and casino chain take many systems offline earlier this week in an ...
A three-year court case has ended with the hacker / whistle-blower owner of the “Football Leaks” website being handed a 4-year suspended sentence. Rui Pinto, a Portuguese citizen was given...
As the summer holiday season comes to an end, schools across the United Kingdom have been gearing up to the new term. Having had to contend with COVID a few years ago, and this year the threat of crum...
Yesterday afternoon (GMT) reports started appearing on Twitter that a large number of slot machines at a number of MGM International-owned casinos in Las Vegas and other locations across the US had su...
If you’ve been following my posts so far this year, you will have noticed that many of my posts involve the topic of ransomware – well there’s a reason for that – ransomware is...
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 rans...
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...
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 &...
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 organisation...