- Northern Ireland: No disciplinary action over multimillion-pound PSNI data breach
April 11, 2024
Jon Boutcher said the error that is set to cost hundreds of millions of pounds was due to a systems failure, as he insisted he not would preside over a “blame culture” within the PSNI. In August last year the details of almost 9,500 PSNI officers and staff were mistakenly published in response to a Freedom ...
- Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks
April 11, 2024
Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks. The company sent the alerts to individuals in 92 nations at 12pm Pacific Time Wednesday. It did not disclose the attackers’ identities or the countries where users received notifications. “Apple detected that you ...
- Russia slaps sanctions on UK IT sector
April 10, 2024
Moscow has blacklisted 22 British government officials, members of the IT sector and legal service market as a measure of retaliation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Those blacklisted particularly include employees of British companies, namely Micro Focus, providing Ukrainian forces with “software and cyber protection services necessary in the process of data collection ...
- Government Consulting Firm GMA Reports a Massive Data Breach That Revealed 341,650 Social Security Numbers
April 10, 2024
In the ever-evolving digital landscape, where data breaches seem to be more of a certainty than a possibility, the recent revelation by Greylock McKinnon Associates (GMA) marks a significant moment of concern for privacy advocates, cybersecurity professionals, and individuals alike. The breach, exposing a staggering 341,650 Social Security numbers, has cast a spotlight on the urgent ...
- Russian businesses targeted by novel ransomware gang
April 10, 2024
Attacks with a Conti ransomware code-based backdoor have been deployed by the new Muliaka ransomware operation against businesses across Russia since at least December, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. Windows systems and VMware ESXi infrastructure of one Russian company had been compromised with the malware after Muliaka had infiltrated ...
- IMF: Rising Cyber Threats Pose Serious Concerns for Financial Stability
April 9, 2024
Cyberattacks have more than doubled since the pandemic. While companies have historically suffered relatively modest direct losses from cyberattacks, some have experienced a much heavier toll. US credit reporting agency Equifax, for example, paid more than $1 billion in penalties after a major data breach in 2017 that affected about 150 million consumers. As we show ...
- Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse
April 9, 2024
Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet. Security researchers Can Yoleri, Murat Özfidan and Egemen Koçhisarlı with SOCRadar, a cybersecurity company that helps organizations find security weaknesses, discovered an open and public storage server hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service that was storing internal information relating ...
- UK: Cyber security breaches survey 2024
April 9, 2024
Cyber security breaches and attacks remain a common threat. Half of businesses (50%) and around a third of charities (32%) report having experienced some form of cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months. This is much higher for medium businesses (70%), large businesses (74%) and high-income charities with £500,000 or more in annual ...
- Thousands of LG TVs are vulnerable to takeover
April 9, 2024
As many as 91,000 LG TVs face the risk of being commandeered unless they receive a just-released security update patching four critical vulnerabilities discovered late last year. The vulnerabilities are found in four LG TV models that collectively comprise slightly more than 88,000 units around the world, according to results returned by the Shodan search engine ...
- Cybercrime on agriculture operations and businesses is on the rise
April 9, 2024
When it comes to cyberattacks, ransomware and electronic fraud, farms and ranches are attracting the interest of hackers because they see these agriculture operations as potentially lucrative targets that may not have up-to-date fraud protection tools in place. Cathy Lennon, general manager of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, says every point along the agrifood chain has ...