22 May

Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data

Scotland’s West Lothian Council has confirmed that data was stolen from its education network after the Interlock ransomware group claimed responsibility for the intrusion earlier

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21 May

US teen to plead guilty to extortion attack against PowerSchool

A 19-year-old student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into the systems of two companies as part of an extortion scheme, and The Register

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21 May

Russia’s Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs’ email servers

Russian cyberspies have targeted “dozens” of Western and NATO-country logistics providers, tech companies, and government orgs providing transport and foreign assistance to Ukraine, according to

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21 May

FBI, Microsoft, international cops bust Lumma infostealer service

International cops working with Microsoft have shut down infrastructure and seized web domains used to run a distribution service for info-stealing malware Lumma. Criminals paid

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21 May

Coinbase confirms insiders handed over data of 70K users

Coinbase says the data of nearly 70,000 customers was handed over by overseas support staff who were bribed by criminals to give up the goods.

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21 May

Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about America’s reach

Google has updated its sovereign cloud services, including an air-gapped solution for customers with strict data security and residency requirements, as customers grow uneasy over

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21 May

ESET takes part in global operation to disrupt Lumma Stealer

ESET has collaborated with Microsoft, BitSight, Lumen, Cloudflare, CleanDNS, and GMO Registry in a global disruption operation against Lumma Stealer, an infamous malware-as-a-service (MaaS) infostealer.

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21 May

Judge allows Delta’s lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line

CrowdStrike is “confident” that the worst-case scenario of its pending lawsuit with Delta will result in it paying the airline a sum in the “single-digit

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21 May

Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about Uncle Sam’s servers

Google has updated its sovereign cloud services, including an air-gapped solution for customers with strict data security and residency requirements, as customers grow uneasy over

Author rabih
21 May

Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America

In a White House press conference on Tuesday President Trump announced his plans for a defensive network of missiles, radar, space surveillance, and attack satellites

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21 May

M&S warns of £300M dent in profits from cyberattack

Marks & Spencer says the disruption related to its ongoing cyberattack is likely to knock around £300 million ($402 million) off its operating profits for

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21 May

UK ‘extremely dependent’ on US for space security

The current rhetoric coming from the US is “alarming” for the UK, which depends on a continuation of their long-standing co-operation around space and military

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21 May

Scattered Spider snared financial orgs before targeting shops in Britain, America

interview Scattered Spider snared financial services organizations in its web before its recent spate of retail attacks in the UK and US, according to Palo

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21 May

‘Ongoing’ Ivanti hijack bug exploitation reaches clouds

The “ongoing exploitation” of two Ivanti bugs has now extended beyond on-premises environments and hit customers’ cloud instances, according to security shop Wiz. CVE-2025-4427 is

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20 May

Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms

Security researchers are sounding the alarm over a fresh flaw in the JavaScript implementation of OpenPGP (OpenPGP.js) that allows both signed and encrypted messages to

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20 May

Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets

It’s more bad news for UK supermarkets with chilled and frozen food distribution business Peter Green Chilled confirming a ransomware attack with customers. According to

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20 May

Virgin Media O2 patches hole that let callers snoop on your coordinates

UK telco Virgin Media O2 has fixed an issue with its 4G Calling feature that allowed users’ general location to be discerned by those who

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19 May

CISA has a new No. 2 – but still no official top dog

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has a new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala, stepping in as the nation’s lead civilian cyber agency faces

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