Category: April

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has cautioned all UK gun owners to ensure that they have robust security in place for their firearms after the NSRA (National Smallbore Rife Association) confirmed that their network had suffered a cyber attack and that some data belonging to its members had been compromised. […]

US Temperature-controlled warehousing & transportation company – Americold Realty Trust, Inc. has announced that they have been subject to a cyber attack. The Atlanta-based company which has over 245 temperature-controlled warehouses and manages over 1 billion cubic feet of storage worldwide announced on Friday (28/04/23) that they had been experiencing […]

Yesterday (27/04/23), Google released their latest set of statistics revealing how much work they do to ensure Internet users have a safe, enjoyable time whilst online. In their latest security blog, Google reveal how they fought Bad Apps and Bad Actors in 2022. Some of the headline statistics include: Not […]

Back at the beginning of April, I posted about an attack on the Canadian company Indigo perpetrated by LockBit. In that same post, I mentioned that it wasn’t the 1st attack on a Canadian organisation, and that an affiliate working for LockBit had also been responsible for an attack on […]

Short post today – more of an update than anything else. As you can probably tell from the title of this post, LockBit have claimed another scalp. This time, the victim is Elektrizitätswerk Wanfried von Scharfenberg KG – A German electricity supply company. Currently, there is no announcement from the […]

The holiday season is just around the corner and many people will be taking a break from the hustle and bustle of workday life, but unfortunately, most people will not be taking a break from their tech. In this short blog, I will highlight a few things to think about […]

In my last post in this min-series on OSINT, I covered some of the techniques used in the sub-category of SOCMINT and how posting data across social media could allow a threat actor to uncover sensitive data. In this post, I will take a look at metadata. What is metadata? […]

In the 2nd post of this mini-series on OSINT, I’ll take a look at how social media can be used as part of an OSINT investigation. The sub-topic of SOCMINT -Social Media Intelligence. Oversharing People simply cant stop over sharing on social media, whether directly, or via being tricked into […]

We are constantly advised to be careful when posting things online as our data could be used by cyber criminals to conduct nefarious acts against us. Whilst this is very true, one thing which is often left out is how cyber criminals get our data. This series of mini-blogs will […]

It’s the news most have been expecting, but has taken almost a month for it to be made public. Start of the attack On the 31st March, staff at Capita, the UK’s largest business process outsourcing & professional services company started reporting “Technical issues” which were impacting access to internal […]