‘I employ a lot of hackers’: how a stock exchange chief deters cyber-attacks

Six Group counts its profit in millions, but the financial pipework it controls moves billions. Its operations, which include the Spanish and Swiss stock exchanges, count as critical national infrastructure and this gives it a close relationship with governments and Read More …

Toyota finance business confirms ransomware attack, data breach

Toyota Financial Services (TFS), a subsidiary of the popular automaker, has confirmed suffering a ransomware attack. In a statement company stated that Toyota Financial Services Europe & Africa “recently identified unauthorized activity on systems in a limited number of its Read More …

Samsung UK discloses year-long breach, leaked customer data

The UK division of Samsung Electronics has allegedly alerted customers of a year-long data breach – the third such incident the South Korean giant has experienced around the world in the past two years. An email to customers, shared on Read More …

Scattered Spider

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) in response to recent activity by Scattered Spider threat actors against the commercial facilities sectors and subsectors. This advisory provides Read More …

Europol and Eurojust support Czech and Ukrainian police in taking down multi-million euro voice phishing gang

The Czech and Ukrainian police have disrupted, with the support of Europol and Eurojust, a prolific phishing gang believed to have defrauded victims across Europe of tens of millions of euros. In Czechia alone, the damage caused by this criminal Read More …

Royal Mail’s recovery from ransomware attack will cost business at least $12M

Royal Mail’s parent International Distributions Services has revealed for the first time the infrastructure costs associated with its January ransomware attack.… LockBit’s attack has driven costs up across various areas of the Brit business, but improvements to the corporation’s Heathrow Read More …

Investigating the New Rhysida Ransomware

The Rhysida group was first identified in May 2023, when they claimed their first victim. This group deploys a ransomware variant known as Rhysida and also offers it as Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). The group has listed around 50 victims so far Read More …

9 million patients had data stolen after US medical transcription firm hacked

Close to nine million patients had highly sensitive personal and health information stolen during a cyberattack on a U.S. medical transcription service earlier this year, representing one of the worst medical-related data breaches in recent times. The medical transcription company, Read More …

Executing from Memory Using ActiveMQ CVE-2023-46604

Huntress Labs, Rapid7, and ArticWolf all recently published reports of threat actors exploiting ActiveMQ CVE-2023-46604 to drop ransomware onto the victim host. The attackers used CVE-2023-46604 to invoke cmd.exe followed by curl.exe or msiexec.exe in order to download and execute Read More …

#StopRansomware: Rhysida Ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the MultiState Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) are releasing this joint CSA to disseminate known Rhysida ransomware IOCs and TTPs identified through investigations as recently as Read More …