A “significant amount of personal data” belonging to legal aid applicants dating back to 2010 in the UK was stolen by cybercriminals, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed today. The announcement follows the initial news from May 6 of an attack on the UK’s Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an MoJ-sponsored organization that allows legal aid...Read More

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KETTERING, Ohio (WKRC) – A major hospital network in the Miami Valley area is experiencing a system-wide technology outage due to a cybersecurity attack. Kettering Health said that the outage has limited their ability to access certain patient care systems across their organization. Both inpatient and outpatient elective procedures at Kettering Health facilities were canceled...Read More

A February call from a European IT services provider that experienced a ransomware attack led researchers at WithSecure to what security pros are calling a “textbook identity attack.”Threat actors lured victims to a malicious look-alike KeePass download site advertised on Bing while the attackers waited for victims who believed it was the legitimate open-source password...Read More

사진 확대 (Yonhap) Following the South Korean government’s announcement that a large-scale hacking attack on SK telecom Co. had been ongoing for three years, concerns are rising that these cyberattacks go beyond mere data theft for profit and could signal a form of cyber warfare orchestrated by specific nations or groups. Evidence has surfaced that...Read More

A Massachusetts man will plead guilty to charges related to the hack of PowerSchool, the education software vendor that says it supports more than 60 million students, and that led to ransom demands at school boards and districts across the United States. In court documents filed Tuesday, prosecutors spelled out charges against 19-year-old Assumption University...Read More

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – A report from Comparitech claims that a Russian ransomware group has taken responsibility for the cyberattack targeting the City of Abilene. The city has acknowledged this new information but hasn’t confirmed or denied its validity. Cyber incident disrupts City of Abilene’s network systems, including phones Back in April, city officials announced...Read More

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, charged five defendants before a Federal High Court in Lagos for allegedly hacking into the server of Premium Trust Bank. The defendants are listed as the bank’s e-payment service manager, Matthew Adeniyi; Kehinde Odeyemi, a nursing mother; Samson Latshin, Bolaji Omotosho and Sunday Okunnola. They were...Read More

The UK retail sector is facing a surge in cyber threats targeting retailers and their supply chains. / Credit: Rob Wilson via Shutterstock Recent cyberattacks on major UK retailers and their supply chains have exposed significant vulnerabilities in the retail infrastructure, raising urgent questions about the future of cybersecurity in the sector. As digital systems...Read More

Another cyber-attack has hit the headlines – this one involving the personal data of hundreds of thousands of legal aid applicants in England and Wales. It comes hard on the heels of recent cyber-attacks that caused huge disruption at Marks & Spencer and the Co-op, and has prompted fresh reminders for people to be extra-vigilant...Read More