The University of West Scotland has been targeted with a cyber attack which caused disruption to both phone lines and its website. The attack which started on the 3rd July, has caused the University w...
Yesterday (6th July) saw the release of the latest Active Cyber Defence (ACD) report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The report highlights the work the NCSC and partners have done over...
The EU is set to reach an agreement for a new law relating to cybersecurity requirements and vulnerability handling for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In a separate process, the UK has passed a sim...
Security researchers at Avast have released a decryptor tool which allows victims of the Akira ransomware the ability to recover files without paying any money to the gangs who use it. Currently, the ...
A highly successful malware campaign has been ravaging bank accounts of Spanish and Chilean customers for the last 2 years according to a report produced by a cyber security researcher called Pol Thil...
The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) has been hit with a ransom demand of USD$ 70M by the LockBit gang, making it the largest demand from this highly successful threat acto...
Barts Health NHS Trust, one of the largest trusts in the UK has been breached by the AlphaV / BlackCat ransomware gang. The trust manages 5 hospitals in London including St Barts, The Royal London, Mi...
Back at the beginning of June, the University of Manchester was the target of a cyber attack during which the threat actors stole approx. 7TB of data. I posted about this breach here. Research data st...
A ransomware group which first appeared on the Internet in March 2022 is surging in prominence after a number of successful attacks in May of this year. Going by the name 8Base, the gang has recently ...
Whilst the world watched the 24 hr mutiny by the Wagner group involved in the Russian war with Ukraine, another attack was taking place in cyber space. A strain of malware created by the Chaos ransomw...