Personal data held by NHS Shetland is breached more than 160 times in three years

Personal and sensitive data held by NHS Shetland was breached more than 160 times over the last three years, it can be revealed. Information given to The Shetland Times through a Freedom of Information (FoI) request showed there was 161 Read More …

British National Pleads Guilty to Hacking into Companies and Stealing At Least $8 Million in Virtual Currency

SANTA ANA, California – A United Kingdom man pleaded guilty today to conspiring with others to hack into the computer systems of at least a dozen companies via text message phishing attacks and to steal at least $8 million in Read More …

Thousands of official government email addresses, including plaintext passwords available online

The official email accounts of public officials all over the world have been leaked online, with many exposed alongside their plaintext passwords, making it trivial for an attacker to breach their accounts. Researchers at Proton scoured the darker side of Read More …

Hacker stole £700,000 from UK energy company by redirecting payment

British oil and gas company Zephyr Energy says someone stole £700,000 (close to $1 million) from one of its U.S.-based subsidiaries by redirecting a payment meant for a contractor into a hacker-controlled account. In a regulatory filing with the London Read More …

Storm-1175 focuses gaze on vulnerable web-facing assets in high-tempo Medusa ransomware operations

The financially motivated cybercriminal actor tracked by Microsoft Threat Intelligence as Storm-1175 operates high-velocity ransomware campaigns that weaponize N-days, targeting vulnerable, web-facing systems during the window between vulnerability disclosure and widespread patch adoption. Following successful exploitation, Storm-1175 rapidly moves from Read More …

UK manufacturers under cyber fire with 80% reporting attacks

Nearly 80 percent of British manufacturers say they’ve been hit by a cyber incident in the past year, as new research suggests disruption on the factory floor is no longer an exception but business as usual. According to security outfit Read More …

UK: Welsh firms ill-prepared to meet the challenges of cyber security threats

Many businesses in Wales lack the readiness to meet cyber security threats while also underestimating their potential costs, shows new research. Undertaken by Bridgend-based managed services provider CSG, the research focused on firms across construction, manufacturing, professional services, retail, public Read More …

Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit searches X office

French police raided the offices of Elon Musk’s social media network X on Tuesday and prosecutors ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in April in a widening investigation, amid growing scrutiny of the platform by authorities across Europe. France’s Read More …

Northern Ireland: PSNI officers affected by data breach to receive £7,500

Almost 10,000 police officers and staff affected by a huge data breach in Northern Ireland are to get a payment of at least £7,500 each. The details of all the PSNI’s serving officers and civilian staff were inadvertently published as Read More …