The NCA now becomes the second law enforcement agency to officially supply HIBP with hacked passwords after the US Federal Bureau of Investigations began a similar collaboration back in May.
According to security researchers who gathered data from Hive’s administrator panel, affiliates of the well-known ransomware group managed to breach in more than 4 months over 350 organizations.
Attacks on UK firms surged five-fold during the pandemic and now cost way more than the global average, according to a poll conducted by Accenture for its State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2021 study.
Nation-states have plenty of time and human capital to expend in supply-chain efforts, so the complexity or relatively unknown nature of the environment does not present a significant barrier.
The Citizen Lab has discovered another player in the private sector mobile spyware business, fingering a tiny North Macedonia company called Cytrox as the makers of high-end iPhone implants.
The supermarket chain is understood to have lost about a week’s worth of data for its 150,000 employees in the United Kingdom. But it said they would be paid before Christmas.
Ransomware attacks surfaced as a national security emergency for the administration after a May attack on Colonial Pipeline, which supplies nearly half the fuel consumed on the East Coast.
The breach took place in October, Clop ransomware operators gained access to data managed by Dacoll, including that of the PNC, holding the personal information and records of 13 million people.
According to Blumira, this newly-discovered Javascript WebSocket attack vector can be exploited through the path of a listening server on their machine or a local network.
It was fixed with the release of VMware Workspace ONE UEM console versions 21.5.0.37, 21.2.0.27, 20.11.0.40, and 20.0.8.36. VMware Workspace ONE UEM patch 21.9.0.13 and above also address the bug.