High-risk system compromised long before intrusion was finally spotted The UK’s Ministry of Justice spent £50 million ($67 million) on cybersecurity improvements at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) before the high-profile cyberattack it disclosed last year.… This article has been…
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Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath
Production halts and supply-chain disruption left luxury automaker reeling in fiscal Q3 Brit luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover has reported devastating preliminary Q3 results that lay bare the cascading consequences of a crippling cyberattack, revealing wholesale volumes collapsed more than…
HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations
Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid Some HSBC mobile banking customers in the UK report being locked out of the bank’s app after installing the Bitwarden password manager via an open source app catalog.……
HackerOne ‘ghosted’ me for months over $8,500 bug bounty, says researcher
Long after CVEs issued and open source flaws fixed Last fall, Jakub Ciolek reported two denial-of-service bugs in Argo CD, a popular Kubernetes controller, via HackerOne’s Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program. Both were assigned CVEs and have since been fixed.…
Brightspeed investigates breach as crims post stolen data for sale
Crimson Collective claims ‘sophisticated attack’ that allows them to ‘disconnect every user from their mobile service’ Internet service provider Brightspeed confirmed that it’s investigating criminals’ claims that they stole more than a million customers’ records and have listed them for…
Fake Windows BSODs check in at Europe’s hotels to con staff into running malware
Phishers posing as Booking.com use panic-inducing blue screens to bypass security controls Russia-linked hackers are sneaking malware into European hotels and other hospitality outfits by tricking staff into installing it themselves through fake Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crashes.……
Crypto wallet shop Ledger confirms customer data lifted in Global-e snafu
Order and contact details accessed via ecommerce partner, and phishing has begun Blockchain security biz Ledger says customer information was accessed in a breach at its ecommerce payment partner Global-e, and is warning that other brands using the platform may…
UK splashes £210M on cyber plan to stop Whitehall getting pwnd
Central government will supposedly be as secure as energy facilities and datacenters under new proposals The UK today launches its Government Cyber Action Plan, committing £210 million ($282 million) to strengthen defenses across digital public services and hold itself to…
Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT
Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton Students at a school in Warwickshire, England, have scored an extended Christmas break after a cyberattack crippled its IT systems, forcing classrooms to close and staff to summon…
One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn’t turned on
Crim used infostealer to get cloud credentials If you don’t say “yes way” to MFA, the consequences can be disastrous. Sensitive data belonging to about 50 global enterprises is listed for sale – and, in some cases, has already been…
Congrats, cybercrims: You just fell into a honeypot
Subpoena issued to former ShinyHunters member Resecurity offered its “congratulations” to the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters cybercrime crew for falling into its threat intel team’s honeypot – resulting in a subpoena being issued for one of the data thieves. Meanwhile, the…
Playing Koi: Palo Alto isn’t saying if it will buy security start-up
CEO Nikesh Arora’s trip to Tel Aviv last month sparked rumors. Palo Alto Networks is on shopping spree. The company is reportedly considering a $400 million purchase of Israeli cybersecurity start up Koi, which raised $48 million in funding last…
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
It’s January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3.… This…
New Zealand orders review into ManageMyHealth cyberattack
Government ‘incredibly’ concerned about breach potentially affecting more than 100,000 patients New Zealand health minister Simeon Brown has ordered a review into the cyberattack at ManageMyHealth, which threatens the data of hundreds of thousands of Kiwis.… This article has been…
Trump admin sends heart emoji to commercial spyware makers with lifted Predator sanctions
Also, Korean Air hacked, EmEditor installer hijacked, a perfect 10 router RCE vuln, and more infosec in brief The Trump administration has cleared a trio of individuals sanctioned by the Biden administration for involvement with the Intellexa spyware consortium behind…
Palo Alto Networks security-intel boss calls AI agents 2026’s biggest insider threat
Lock ’em down interview AI agents represent the new insider threat to companies in 2026, according to Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Intel Officer Wendi Whitmore, and this poses several challenges to executives tasked with securing the expected surge in…
Bitfinex crypto thief who was serving five years thanks Trump for early release
Netflix documentary part 2 in the works? Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges tied to the 2016 theft of about 120,000 bitcoins from the Bitfinex exchange and was sentenced to five years in prison, has been released after…
Cybercrook claims to be selling infrastructure info about three major US utilities
For the bargain price of 6.5 bitcoin A cybercrook claims to have breached Pickett and Associates, a Florida-based engineering firm whose clients include major US utilities, and is selling what they claim to be about 139 GB of engineering data…
Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems
Jacob Riggs is set to swap London for Sydney some time in the next year A British security researcher has secured Australia’s strictest, invite-only visa after discovering a critical vulnerability in a government system.… This article has been indexed from…
LockBit takedown architect gets New Year award from King Charles
Gavin Webb orchestrated Operation Cronos as it pulled off the legendary disruption sting A senior British crimefighter has been awarded one of the country’s highest tributes for public service for his role in the 2024 LockBit ransomware takedown.… This article…