A threat actor and alleged ransomware operator going by the alias USDoD has leaked data on over 3,000 suppliers of aviation giant Airbus after supposedly penetrating the organisation’s systems using a hacked customer account belonging to Turkish Airlines. According to Hudson Rock, which was first to identify the emerging incident, USDoD had already gained […]

The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operation appears to be behind the ongoing cyber attack on US hospitality and leisure operator MGM Resorts, which has disrupted operations at Las Vegas casinos including Bellagio, Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, the MGM Grand and New York-New York. First revealed by malware research collective VX-Underground, the gang claimed it had conducted […]

Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have all moved to patch a critical zero-day flaw affecting their browsers and potentially linked to the dissemination of malicious commercial spyware. The vulnerability in question has been assigned the designation CVE-2023-4863. It is a heap-based buffer overflow flaw that enables a remote attacker to perform an out-of-bounds memory write […]

One of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers is being built in Bristol to provide a national resource for researchers and industry experts, with processing power to support artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and scientific discovery. Backed by a £900m investment announced in March to transform UK’s computing capacity, the facility at the University of Bristol will […]

Six months into her role at real-time Norwegian graphics and live production service provider Vizrt, Petra Tesch is enjoying challenges old and new. The Stockholm-based chief information officer (CIO) is an exponent of plain speaking when it comes to getting the message across. “There’s a saying in Swedish that goes, ‘Speak with farmers in farmers’ […]

Automotive industry leaders are struggling with competing cyber risk and security priorities, and as such, many are increasingly concerned that their organisations will be unprepared for new, United Nations (UN)-backed vehicle safety regulations that come into force next year, leaving drivers exposed to unacceptable security risks. The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe World […]

Protecting the company against cyber attacks is a cross-organizational endeavor. And while employees are often called the first line of defense, it’s critical not to overlook senior leaders and the C-suite. IT has a lot of work to do in defending the organization against hackers, which includes ensuring endpoint protection, backing up data, installing […]

Britain’s spy agencies violated the privacy rights of two foreign nationals living outside the UK as part of the UK’s programme of bulk surveillance, the European Court of Human Rights ruled. The court upheld a complaint from an IT professional and a security and privacy researcher living outside the UK that GCHQ had breached […]

GitHub has fixed a race condition vulnerability in its repository creation and user renaming operations that could have enabled threat actors to perform what is known as a repojacking attack. Discovered and disclosed by researchers from Checkmarx, had the flaw been exploited it could have been used to take control of code repositories and […]

NGO Save the Children, one of the world’s oldest and largest charities, has confirmed it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack by the BianLian operation. First tracked by VX Underground – which stated that the gang needed “to be punched in the face”, a statement with which it is hard to argue – […]