Data Breach News, News, Vendor News
October 19, 2025
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Russian hackers ‘steal HUNDREDS of U.K. Ministry of Defence files and leak them to dark web’ in ‘catastrophic’ attack

The Sun reports: RUSSIAN cybercriminals have stolen hundreds of military documents and posted them on the dark web in a ‘catastrophic’ hack. The security breach compromised eight RAF and Royal Navy bases as well as emails and names of Ministry of Defence staff, as reported in The Mail on Sunday. The breach has been labelled ‘catastrophic’ and the MoD are investigating the […]

Data Breach News, Legal News, Malware Ransomware, Vendor News
October 16, 2025
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Capita given record £14 million fine over ransomware attack security failings

The Record reports: Capita, the United Kingdom’s largest outsourcing company, was on Wednesday fined £14 million ($18.7 million) over security failings that saw attackers compromise the personal information of 6.6 million people in a ransomware attack in 2023. The voluntary settlement is for less than a third of the £45 million ($60 million) Britain’s data […]

Data Breach News
October 16, 2025
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F5 Networks reports nation-state cyberattack on product systems

This is not an incident involving personally identifiable information or protected health information. It involves source code and information about product vulnerabilities. Street Insider reports: F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) disclosed that a nation-state threat actor gained unauthorized access to certain company systems on August 9, 2025, according to a company statement. The network security company said […]

Insurance News, Data Breach News
October 15, 2025
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A ‘Fast, Fair and Friendly’ Fail: Farmers Irks Customers With Its Handling of a Data Breach

Farmers Insurance is facing negative attention and lawsuits because of a three-month delay in notifying 1.1 million policyholders about a data breach. H. Dennis Beaver, Esq writes: To paraphrase the notice (you can read it in full here): On May 30, 2025, one of our vendors informed us about suspicious activity of an unauthorized actor who […]

Data Breach News, News
October 14, 2025
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British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%

The Register reports: Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government’s cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled. GCHQ’s cyber arm, the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC), said in its annual review published today that its incident management team handled 429 […]

Education Sector, Data Breach News, Vendor News, Vulnerabilities
October 14, 2025
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Harvard investigating breach linked to Oracle zero-day exploit

Bleeping Computer reports: Harvard University is investigating a data breach after the Clop ransomware gang listed the school on its data leak site, saying the alleged breach was likely caused by a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s E-Business Suite servers. “Harvard is aware of reports that data associated with the University has been obtained […]

Data Breach News
October 14, 2025
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Crimson Collective claims to have hacked Nintendo

Computing.co.uk reports; Notorious hacking group Crimson Collective has claimed responsibility for a major breach of Nintendo’s internal systems. Crimson Collective says it has access to sensitive production assets, developer files, and backup data. This claim was given weight by cybersecurity intelligence firm Hackmanac which shared a screenshot on X purportedly showing folders labeled “Production Assets,” “Dev Builds,” […]

Vulnerabilities, Data Breach News
October 10, 2025
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FBI Alert: Update Red Hat OpenShift AI Now

The FBI urges all organizations using Red Hat’s OpenShift AI platform to address a 9.9/10 security flaw. It allows an attacker with authenticated access to a low-privileged account to escalate privileges, potentially leading to stolen data, disrupted services, and complete takeover of the underlying infrastructure. If you have OpenShift deployed in your environment, urgent action is […]

Data Breach News, Malware Ransomware, Miscellaneous News, News
October 10, 2025
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LockBit, DragonForce, and Qilin form a ‘cartel’ to dictate ransomware market conditions (1)

CSO reports: Three of the most notorious ransomware-as-a-service operations have formed a criminal cartel aimed at coordinating attacks and sharing resources in what they describe as an increasingly “challenging” ransomware business environment. DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit announced the partnership in early September, with DragonForce proposing the collaboration shortly after LockBit reemerged with its LockBit 5.0 […]