A group of English-speaking hackers linked to the Marks & Spencer cyber-attack has claimed responsibility for an attack on Jaguar Land Rover. A channel on the Telegram platform posted a screenshot of what appeared to be the carmaker’s internal IT systems, as well as a news article detailing the hack. The name of the Telegram...Read More

The cybersecurity vendor has extended its ‘deny-by-default’ approach to the cloud and mobile devices, addressing one of the biggest challenges faced by MSPs today, ThreatLocker CEO Danny Jenkins tells CRN. With the expansion of ThreatLocker’s deny-by-default approach to the cloud and mobile announced Thursday, the cybersecurity vendor is addressing one of the biggest challenges faced...Read More

If your Facebook account was hacked, don’t wait for it to get fixed. The longer someone controls your profile, the harder it becomes to recover. That danger is amplified if both your email and phone number have been changed. The hacking business model aims to monetize your identity, impersonate you to scam others, and sometimes...Read More

When journalist Nick Davies began investigating phone hacking at the UK tabloid the News of the World, he couldn’t have known what the fallout would be. Revelations that journalists had intercepted the voicemails of celebrities, politicians, and even victims of crime, exposed a tangled web of illegality, unethical practices, collusion and corruption. Decades on, the...Read More

Cyber-security firm Check Point described the targeting of nurseries as “an absolute new low”. One of its experts Graeme Stewart said: “To deliberately put children and schools in the firing line, is indefensible. Frankly, it is appalling.” Jonathon Ellison, from the National Cyber Security Centre described the hack as “deeply distressing”. “Cyber criminals will target...Read More

The hackers claim to have deleted everything they took – which included the private details and pictures of around 8,000 children as well as contact information for parents and carers. “All child data is now being deleted. No more remains and this can comfort parents,” one of the cyber-criminals involved told the BBC. It’s understood...Read More

Discord has just notified its users of a data breach that occurred a couple of weeks ago, on September 20, where hackers gained access to user information through third-party channels. Discord was not directly hacked; instead, the bad actors compromised one of its customer service providers, from which they gained access to mainly users’ contact...Read More

Thousands of Asus routers have been hacked and are under the control of a suspected China-state group that has yet to reveal its intentions for the mass compromise, researchers said. The hacking spree is either primarily or exclusively targeting seven models of Asus routers, all of which are no longer supported by the manufacturer, meaning...Read More

SooToday has heard from customers with Your Neighbourhood Credit Union who say their accounts were hacked and money was stolen. In a response to someone on social media, YNCU said the issue has been with the credit union’s Visa Debit cards. “This was a Visa Debit card fraud attempt primarily affecting members in Sault Ste....Read More

L.A. Metro shut down parts of its network after its security team detected hacking activity last month, and law enforcement and cybersecurity specialists are continuing to investigate who was behind the attack, authorities said. “On Monday, March 16, Metro proactively limited employee access to many internal administrative computer systems after the agency’s security team discovered...Read More