The Dreaded Network Pivot: An Attack Intelligence Story

Rapid7 recently released our 2024 Attack Intelligence Report, a 14-month deep dive into the vulnerability and attacker landscape. The spiritual successor to their annual Vulnerability Intelligence Report, the AIR includes data from the Rapid7 research team combined with their detection Read More …

Hospitals in London declared critical incident after cyber-attack

Major hospitals in London have declared a critical incident after a cyber-attack led to operations being cancelled and emergency patients being diverted elsewhere. It applies to hospitals partnered with Synnovis – a provider of pathology services. King’s College Hospital, Guy’s Read More …

The impact of legacy vulnerabilities in today’s cybersecurity landscape

Of the top five most widely used network attacks against SMBs, the ‘newest’ vulnerability represented were nearly three years old, while the oldest were over a decade old – which is primitive when considering the modern threat environment. The results Read More …

UK: The Princess of Wales’s hospital data breach not referred to police due to suspected ‘decoy’ plan

The Princess of Wales’s hospital data breach has not been referred to police as an expert explains that a “decoy” plan could have been in use – meaning her actual medical files were not accessed by the perpetrators. Despite Health Read More …

Ticketmaster confirms customer data breach

Live Nation Entertainment has confirmed what everyone has been speculating on for the last week: Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach. In a filing with the SEC, Live Nation said on May 20th it identified “unauthorized activity within a third-party Read More …

Europol: Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem

Between 27 and 29 May 2024 Operation Endgame, coordinated from Europol’s headquarters, targeted droppers including, IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee and Trickbot. The actions focused on disrupting criminal services through arresting High Value Targets, taking down the criminal infrastructures and Read More …

Northern Ireland: Disabled former police officers to receive damages for alleged data breach

Disabled former policemen and women in Northern Ireland are to receive undisclosed damages for an alleged data breach, their lawyer revealed today. Financial settlements were reached in legal action against the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Proceedings related to an Read More …

‘People’s lives are at risk’: Ascension ransomware attack going on nearly three weeks

A ransomware attack on a major US hospital network that began three weeks ago is endangering patients’ health as nurses are forced to manually enter prescription information and work without electronic health records, nurses at two hospitals affected by the Read More …