On September 4, Tewkesbury Borough Council declared a major IT incident and shut down its systems and enacted their incident response plan. It now turns out that this incident was not a cyber-attack but an error in user accounts. However this does not matter. There was and is inconvenience to …
Ransomware has not gone away
Just in case you thought that ransomware was a thing of the past or that the threat actors only went after big businesses, then think again: NoName ransomware gang deploying RansomHub malware in recent attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) The NoName ransomware gang has been targeting small and medium-sized businesses worldwide with its …
The state of ransomware
I have written a lot about updates and patches recently – let’s get back to another old favourite – ransomware. No surprise it is still a growth market for threat actors. Read about it in Unit 42’s bi-annual report: Ransomware Review: First Half of 2024 (paloaltonetworks.com) Your takeaway Simple – …
Ransomware and The Paris Olympic Games
Following the sabotage on the French rail network on the eve of the Olympic Games in Paris, The Grand Palais Réunion des musées nationaux (Rmn) – the organisation that manages a number of the museums and cultural sites involved in the Olympics – reported that it suffered a ransomware cyber-attack. …
Ticketmaster – data theft
More has emerged – slowly – about the Ticketmaster hack that compromised the personal details of over 560 million customers. Remember the first anyone heard of the hack was from the hackers – ShinyHunters – not from Ticketmaster – when they were attempting to sell the stolen data online. Ticketmaster …
