- Paracetamol maker Granules India’ Q1 profit hurt by cyber attack disruptions
August 9, 2023
Granules India Ltd the maker of paracetamol and ibuprofen pain relievers, reported a 62.5% fall in first-quarter profit on Wednesday, as a cyber security incident significantly disrupted operations. The generic drug maker’s consolidated net profit tumbled to 478.9 million rupees ($5.8 million) in the April-June quarter, from 1.27 billion rupees a year earlier. Granules faced a ...
- Northern Ireland police data breach is second in weeks, force reveals
August 9, 2023
On Wednesday, PSNI revealed an earlier data breach: a police-issue laptop, documents and a spreadsheet identifying more than 200 staffers were stolen from a private vehicle in Newtownabbey, near Belfast, on July 6th. “We have contacted the officers and staff concerned to make them aware of the incident and an initial notification has been made to ...
- Cyber Security & Cloud Expo Europe 2023 – Less Than Two Months To Go
August 9, 2023
Save the date and get ready for one of the most anticipated events in the tech and cyber community – Cyber Security & Cloud Expo Europe! This year’s expo will take place on 26-27 September at the renowned RAI Amsterdam, bringing together over 6,000 attendees from around the globe to explore the latest trends and innovations ...
- Northern Ireland: Major data breach identifies thousands of police officers and civilian staff
August 8, 2023
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has apologised for mistakenly revealing details of all its 10,000 staff. NI’s Police Federation said the breach could cause “incalculable damage”. In response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, the PSNI had shared names of all police and civilian personnel, where they were based and their roles. The ...
- UK Elections watchdog targeted by cyber attack which left voters’ details exposed
August 8, 2023
Details of tens of millions of voters could have been accessed by hackers who targeted the elections watchdog. The Electoral Commission revealed on Tuesday it was targeted by a cyber attack which allowed “hostile actors” to access electoral registers. The hack allowed the attackers to access reference copies of electoral registers which contained the name and addresses ...
- Clustering attacker behavior reveals hidden patterns
August 8, 2023
A collection of very specific behaviors, observed by Sophos X-Ops incident response analysts in the lead-up to four separate ransomware attacks in the first quarter of 2023, indicates an unexpected connection between the attacks. In the parlance of the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team, the peculiarly similar details constitute a threat activity cluster that ...
- Scammers from Ukraine trying to trick Russians into committing crimes
August 8, 2023
Scam artists from Ukraine are using a new tactic to drag Russians into subversive activities, the Russian interior ministry said on Tuesday. “Anonymous callers tell people that con-artists are attempting to steal or have already stolen their money but it is possible to get it back. Here, they are given options: take revenge on the swindlers ...
- New cyberattack method: tracking typing remotely via keyboard sounds
August 7, 2023
A group of British cybersecurity researchers has figured out a novel new attack method: recording the sound a computer keyboard makes. The researcher took recordings using a nearby smartphone of typists and used it to train a sound classification model, achieving accuracies of 95% to suss out the actual keys pressed. They call this an acoustic side ...
- Code leaks are causing an influx of new ransomware actors
August 7, 2023
Ransomware gangs are consistently rebranding or merging with other groups, as highlighted in our 2022 Year in Review, or these actors work for multiple ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) outfits at a time, and new groups are always emerging. This trend is already continuing this year. Since 2021, there have been multiple leaks of ransomware source code and builders ...
- Ukraine-Linked Group Claims It Hacked Website Of Moscow Property Registration Bureau
August 7, 2023
A Ukraine-linked hacker group said on Telegram on August 7 that it had hacked the website of Moscow’s municipal property registration bureau (MosgorBTI) overnight, saying “the information about state officials, politicians, military, and special services officers who support the Ukraine war had been handed to Ukraine’s defense forces.” The MosgorBTI’s website has yet to comment on ...
- Adopting guidance from the US National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the Internet of Things
August 7, 2023
The recently published United States National Cybersecurity Strategy warns that many popular Internet of Things (IoT) devices are not sufficiently secure to protect against many of today’s common cybersecurity threats. The strategy also cautions that many of these IoT devices are difficult—or, in some cases, impossible—to patch or upgrade. A key development occurred on July 18, ...