A cyber attack has hit the UK National Health Service (NHS) 111 telephone service delaying response times and other services such as patient referrals, out-of-hours appointment bookings, and emergency prescriptions. The target of the breach was Advanced, a company supplying software for about 85% of the NHS hotline’s services. The UK Government is now working...
Verizon has just released its 2022 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR), which started to be published 15 years ago. The Report underlines that “the past year has been extraordinary in a number of ways, but it was certainly memorable with regard to the murky world of cybercrime. From very well publicized critical infrastructure attacks to...
The cybercriminals group BlackHat has claimed ransomware attacks against Creos, an energy network operator, and the supplier Enovos in the night of July 22. Both companies are under the Encevo Group, an energy corporation owned by the government of Luxembourg and several other companies, including China Southern Power Grid International. Creos helps run the country’s electricity...
Hive cybercriminal group started operating in June 2021 and has reportedly breached more than 350 organizations just in the past four months. Among their main targets are healthcare and education organizations. Among its victims are now the Wootton Upper School and Kimberley College — both owned by Wootton Academy Trust in Bedfordshire – in England....
The US Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of California published the press release that it entered in a non-prosecution agreement with Uber, which has admitted to concealing a massive data breach from six years ago. Uber settled any civil liability for USD 148m for all 50 States. As a result of the breach which...
The Indian Government has reported that the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has accounted more than 670 thousand data breaches since the beginning of 2022. Since 2019, the cyber incidents trend has been on a steady increase rising concerns over the awareness and preparedness of Indian entities against this phenomenon. Read more on the...
The China premier Li Keqiang urges the government to “defend information security” after what could be the largest ever data leak for China. Read more on the South China Morning Post here.
A vpnMentor’s research team discovered a data breach of Proud Makatizen, an official website from the city of Makati, the Philippines, aimed at providing Covid-19 relief services and more. The breach involved 300,000 Makati residents now at risk of relevant online attacks. Read the Vpnmentor report here.
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