The BBC is reporting that four people have been arrested by police investigating the cyber-attacks that have caused havoc at M&S and the Co-op. The National Crime Agency (NCA) says a 20-year-old woman was arrested in Staffordshire, and three males – aged between 17 and 19 – were detained in London and the West Midlands. […]
France’s cybersecurity agency has revealed that a Chinese hacking group has targeted government, telecommunications, media, finance and transport sectors in the country using zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance devices. The campaign, detected at the beginning of September 2024, has been attributed to a distinct intrusion set codenamed Houken, which is assessed to share some […]
Glasgow City Council is grappling with widespread disruption to its digital services more than a week after a serious cyberattack forced core systems offline. The breach was detected on June 19th and has been traced to “malicious activity” discovered by the council’s IT supplier, CGI, on servers managed by an, as yet unnamed, third-party provider. […]
Western Sydney University (WSU) announced two security incidents that exposed personal information belonging to members of its community. WSU is a prominent Australian institution offering various undergraduate, postgraduate, and research programs across multiple disciplines. It serves a student body of 47,000 and employs more than 4,500 permanent and seasonal staff, operating with an annual budget […]