UK retailer Harrods is the most recent victim of a cyber attack, hot on the heels of similar cybersecurity incidents affecting Marks & Spencer and the Co-op, prompting an NSCS advisory.
UK retailer the Co-op has confirmed and apologized for the data theft stemming from a cyber attack on its systems, claimed by the Dragonforce ransomware operation.
In at least two of the attacks, those on Co-op and Marks and Spencer, the DragonForce group is confirmed to have used very similar social engineering approaches to convince the IT help desks to have an employee password reset.
A case of what TikTok says was the mistaken storage of EU data on a server in China appears to be concluding with a €530 million fine for the video giant, under charges of violating Article 46(1) of the GDPR and its requirement to "verify, guarantee and demonstrate" that its data transfers were kept adequately secure.
TeleMessage provides secure archiving services for a variety of messaging apps, including Telegram and WhatsApp. In this case, the security breach is of an unofficial Signal clone that parent company Smarsh offers called "TM SGNL."
The LockBit ransomware group appears to have lost control of at least one of its dark web sites, which was used to leak internal chat logs that contain negotiations with its victims among other things. It is unknown who is behind the data breach.
Threat actors behind the 2024 PowerSchool data breach continue to extort individual schools, despite the education software developer having already made a ransom payment.
A new handbook published by crypto advocacy group European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) warns that EU regulators will ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027, according to the terms of the recently adopted Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR).
The European Vulnerability Database was announced via press release on May 13, which indicated that the undertaking is already operational. Though the timing is likely coincidental to at least some degree, the announcement comes just weeks after the MITRE CVE database avoided defunding.
London, UK-headquartered education giant Pearson has confirmed a customer data breach after malicious actors gained unauthorized access to parts of its IT systems.
