The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at a Vietnamese infrastructure and transport construction corporation between mid-2024 and February 2026, as well as a supply chain...Read More

CYBER-CRIMe Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection Great Marlow School in Buckinghamshire, England, has entered its second day of a shutdown following “a suspected malware incident.” Only students sitting their GCSE and A-level exams – those in Years 11 and 13 – were permitted to attend on Wednesday, in line with...Read More

Denis Obrezko, a Russian national suspected of hacking, is now in U.S. custody after his extradition from Thailand. The 36-year-old appeared in Boston federal court, facing charges related to a cyber espionage campaign by the Russia-aligned group Void Blizzard, targeting U.S. companies. Department of Justice prosecutors, with no current comments, are handling the case. Thailand...Read More

Eutelsat and Tototheo Global executives celebrated their partnership to distribute OneWeb LEO services to shipping (source: Eutelsat) 11 Jun 2026by Martyn Wingrove Two partnerships were announced at a shipping industry event in Athens to deliver low-Earth-orbit connectivity and managed cybersecurity services to the maritime industry  France and UK-listed Eutelsat has signed an agreement with a Greek distribution firm to deliver low-Earth-orbit...Read More

Insurance experts have urged organizations to reduce their exposure to extortion-only attacks and better manage the consequences when they occur, after revealing a surge in this category of threats. Insurer Resilience said in a new report that 65% of extortion-related claims it handled in the second half of 2025 did not involve data encryption. That’s...Read More

Lumen said the activity is linked to Chinese nation-state-backed actors, including Volt Typhoon. The findings point to a growing challenge for enterprise security teams. Many enterprise edge systems remain outside traditional endpoint monitoring, giving adversaries room to move quickly from vulnerability disclosure to targeted reconnaissance. Lumen added that JDY’s distributed infrastructure can also help operators...Read More

The cofounders of Pi have a long history in hacking and securing some of the most widely used technologies in the world, whether apps from Microsoft or cars at Tesla. Fotómetro Yoni Ramon has been one of Elon Musk’s favorite cybersecurity guys for over a decade. He led the in-house hacking team at Tesla for...Read More

For years, employees have been described as the weakest link in cybersecurity. It is a phrase that has been used across the industry to explain why cyber incidents happen. At Optimise Cyber Solutions, we see it differently. People are not the weakest link. Untrained people are. In most of the organisations we work with, staff...Read More

The 2026 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index found a 44% increase in attacks targeting public-facing applications. For instance, artificial intelligence (AI) tools are helping attackers find and exploit weaknesses faster than ever. This has organizations turning to defenses such as immutable storage as a core part of their cyber resilience strategy. The financial impact is...Read More

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a “resurgence and expansion” of JDY, a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. “The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 SOHO [small office and home office] and IoT devices and operates as a centrally controlled, high-performance scanner used to discover, fingerprint, and continuously map exposed services at scale,” Lumen’s...Read More