A continuous trend of cybersecurity incidents and data breaches impacting health sector organizations over the past year has been disclosed in the First Quarter 2025 Health-ISAC Heartbeat. While ransomware events saw a slight decrease in the third quarter of 2024, ransomware events continued to trend upward for the fourth quarter and into the first quarter...Read More
About Oliver Haill Oliver has been writing about companies and markets since the early 2000s, cutting his teeth as a financial journalist at Growth Company Investor with a focusing on AIM companies and small caps, before a few years later becoming a section editor and then head of research. He joined Proactive after a couple...Read More
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has resumed some online clothes orders six weeks after a damaging cyberattack that the retailer has warned will cost it hundreds of millions of pounds. “Select fashion ranges” are available again for the first time in 46 days for customers across Britain. M&S said that people in Northern Ireland were still...Read More
Despite years of warnings from authorities, more than 90 per cent of Australian organisations targeted by ransomware in the past year chose to pay the attacker’s ransom demands, according to new research released today. The findings come from Rubrik Zero Labs’ annual report, The State of Data Security in 2025: A Distributed Crisis, which paints...Read More
Ransomware operators have increasingly turned to a sophisticated new malware tool called Skitnet, also known as “Bossnet,” to enhance their post-exploitation capabilities and evade traditional security measures. First emerging on underground cybercrime forums in April 2024, this multi-stage malware has rapidly gained traction among prominent ransomware groups seeking to streamline their operations while maintaining stealth...Read More
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) have issued an updated advisory on Play Ransomware, also known as Playcrypt. The advisory includes detailed Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures and Indicators of Compromise for the Play ransomware group,...Read More
