Following any type of incident that impacts your organisation, how you respond to your stakeholders is important to the recover your reputation. Following the serious cyber security incident the Co-op have suffered, they have offered members a financial appology – I have had an email from the Co-op explaining my …
Phishing Attacks
It would have been difficult to miss the fact that Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op and Harrods have all suffered serious cyber-attacks recently. There has been speculation that the attacks originated from a phishing attack, as the hacking group DragonForce bragged in an email that they had hacked an employee …
Good News
Having reported on the ransomware attacks on UK retail over the past couple of weeks – let’s start the week off with a good news ransomware story. International law enforcement co-operation – as part of the ongoing Operation Endgame – has led to about 300 servers and 650 domains being …
UK Retail Cyber-attacks
“Empty shelves, cancelled online orders, the data of millions of customers stolen.” BBC News The BBC is reporting that the Scattered Spider cyber-gang is probably behind the attacks and they have been using an “off the shelf” threat actor package called DragonForce to carry out the attacks. M&S and Co-op …
Cyber-attacks
Here are two informative articles from the BBC looking at two different cyber-attacks. The first is a look at an attack on Redcar and Cleveland Council in February 2020, which for the rest of us got overtaken by world events but for those living and working in the region it …
