France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack

France’s national postal and banking services were knocked offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, according to an announcement by La Poste. The postal service called the attack “a major network incident” that was disrupting “all of Read More …

Romania: Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on water agency

Romania’s cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on the country’s water management administration has compromised around 1,000 systems, with work to remediate them still ongoing. Administrația Națională Apele Române (Romanian Waters) says its geographical information system applications servers, database Read More …

Denmark blames Russia for cyberattacks on water utility and local government websites

The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two “destructive and disruptive” cyber-attacks in what it describes as “very clear evidence” of a hybrid war. The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a Read More …

Amazon security boss blames Russia’s GRU for years-long energy-sector hacks

Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind a years-long campaign targeting energy, telecommunications, and tech providers, stealing credentials and compromising misconfigured devices hosted on AWS to give the Kremlin’s snoops persistent access to sensitive networks, according to Amazon’s security boss. Read More …

Iranian hacker group deploys malicious Snake game to target Egyptian and Israeli critical infrastructure

An Iranian-aligned hacking group tracked as ‘MuddyWater’ has dramatically shifted tactics in attacks against Israeli and Egyptian critical infrastructure. Previous campaigns by the group, observed by ESET Research, were characteristically noisy in their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) making them Read More …

NHS Highland staff ‘poor practice’ sparks fears of heightened risk of a major cyber attack

NHS Highland is at heightened risk of falling prey to a major cyber attack in part due to “poor practice” by some staff members. The warning, contained in a report to the board assessing risk levels faced in a range Read More …

#StopRansomware: Akira Ransomware

The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and partner organisations are releasing this joint advisory to disseminate known Akira ransomware IOCs and TTPs identified through FBI investigations and trusted third-party reporting as recently as November 2025. Akira ransomware threat Read More …

Industrial computing systems at risk from “time bombs ” in malicious NuGet packages

Thousands of critical infrastructure organizations, as well as those working in other, equally important verticals, were targeted by a perfidious attack that sought to sabotage their industrial control devices (ICD) two years down the line, experts have discovered. Cybersecurity researchers Read More …

Hackers target UK drinking water suppliers

New reports have revealed five cyberattacks have targeted British drinking water facilities since January 2024 – a record number in any two year period. Reports of these incidents were obtained by The Record using Freedom of Information requests to the Read More …

Canadian government claims hacktivists are attacking water and energy facilities

The Canadian government has issued a new security alert warning of so-called hacktivists targeting Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The report says the Cyber Centre and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has received “multiple reports” of incidents involving internet-accessible ICS. Among Read More …