Arla Foods has confirmed to BleepingComputer that it was targeted by a cyber-attack that has disrupted its production operations. The Danish food giant clarified that the attack only affected its production unit in Upahl, Germany, though it expects this will result in product delivery delays or even cancellations. Arla Foods is an international dairy producer […]
The BBC is reporting that Adidas has disclosed it’s been hit by a cyber attack in which customers’ personal information has been stolen. The sportswear giant said criminals had obtained “certain consumer data” which “mainly consists” of the contact information of people who had been in touch with its help desk. Adidas said passwords and […]
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has evaluated and addressed the potential threats and risks associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cyber security. NCSC Assessment (NCSC-A) is the authoritative voice on the cyber threat to the UK. It fuses all-source information – classified intelligence, industry knowledge, academic material and open source – to provide […]
As part of the latest “season” of Operation Endgame, a coalition of law enforcement agencies have taken down about 300 servers worldwide, neutralized 650 domains, and issued arrest warrants against 20 targets. Operation Endgame, first launched in May 2024, is an ongoing law enforcement operation targeting services and infrastructures assisting in or directly providing initial or […]
A federal grand jury indictment and criminal complaint unsealed today charge 16 defendants who allegedly developed and deployed the DanaBot malware which a Russia-based cybercrime organisation controlled and deployed, infecting more than 300,000 victim computers around the world, facilitated fraud and ransomware, and caused at least $50 million in damage. The defendants include Aleksandr Stepanov, 39, a.k.a. “JimmBee” and […]
A sprawling operation undertaken by global law enforcement agencies and a consortium of private sector firms has disrupted the online infrastructure associated with a commodity information stealer known as Lumma (aka LummaC or LummaC2), seizing 2,300 domains that acted as the command-and-control (C2) backbone to commandeer infected Windows systems. The US Justice Department announced the unsealing of […]
Mandiant warns that the Scattered Spider cybercriminal group is using “brazen” social engineering attacks to target large enterprise organisations in a wide range of sectors. Specifically, the group targets “organisations with large help desk and outsourced IT functions which are susceptible to their social engineering tactics.” The threat actors impersonate employees and attempt to trick IT […]
The UK Government is looking into new laws which will help protect businesses from cyber threats. As part of the Plan for Change set of milestones the Labour Government hopes to achieve by the end of the current Parliament, the new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill aims to boost protection of supply chains and critical national services, […]
The UK retail sector has endured another cyber-attack with a supplier to major chains being hit by a ransomware attack. Logistics firm Peter Green Chilled said it supplies supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Aldi, but it is relatively small compared with larger UK food distributors. The company said clients were “receiving regular updates” including “workarounds” […]
Officials at the Ministry of Justice have confirmed a ‘significant’ cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency. A statement from the UK Government said the organisation became aware of the cyber-attack on the online digital services of the agency in April this year and took immediate action to bolster the security of the system, and informed […]