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Poor cybersecurity practices cost SMBs £3.4 billion a year – and 28% risk going out of business after a single attack
Small businesses across the UK are losing £3.4 billion a year thanks to inadequate cybersecurity measures, according to new research. Cyber attacks against SMBs have surged in recent years, analysis from Vodafone Business shows, with more than a third experiencing a cyber incident last year alone. Meanwhile, 28% had between one and five attempted attacks, and 6% were targeted up…
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Russian hackers attack Western military mission using malicious drive
The Russian state-backed hacking group Gamaredon (aka “Shuckworm”) has been targeting a military mission of a Western country in Ukraine in attacks likely deployed from removable drives. Symantec threat researchers say the campaign started in February 2025 and continued until March, with hackers deploying an updated version of the GammaSteel info-stealing malware to exfiltrate data. According to the report, initial access to…
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Texas State Bar warns of data breach after INC ransomware claims attack
The State Bar of Texas is warning it suffered a data breach after the INC ransomware gang claimed to have breached the organization and began leaking samples of stolen data. The State Bar of Texas is the second-largest bar association in the United States, with over 100,000 licensed attorneys. It regulates the legal profession in Texas by overseeing licensing, continuing…
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Surging DDoS attack rates show no sign of slowing down – here’s why
The number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks has shot up since the first half of last year, according to new research, with DDoS-for-hire services becoming increasingly sophisticated. Figures from Netscout show there were almost nine million DDoS attacks in the second half of 2024, up 12.75% on the first half. The rise is driven by the increasing use…
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NHS supplier hit with £3m fine for security failings that led to attack
A Birmingham-based software provider has been handed a £3 million fine for security failings that led to a ransomware attack on the NHS. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said Advanced Computer Software Group failed to use appropriate security measures before the 2022 attack, which put the personal information of tens of thousands of NHS patients at risk. Advanced provided the…
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Attack Surface Management for French Enterprises
A single unmonitored exposed IT asset is all it takes to compromise an entire organization. Hence IT asset monitoring is one of the key strategies that keeps proactive cybersecurity efforts up and running across businesses. However, with the growing reliance on cloud platforms, third-party vendors, and remote operations, the number of IT assets to be monitored, both internal and external…
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Have I Been Pwned owner Troy Hunt’s mailing list compromised in phishing attack
Troy Hunt, the security blogger behind data breach site Have I Been Pwned, has fallen victim to a phishing attack targeting his email subscriber list. In a blog post disclosing the incident, Hunt described how the attack took place, with screen shots of the phishing email, which purported to come from his email marketing provider, Mailchimp. The trap used a…
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Cyber attack that shut down schools in New Mexico claimed by ransomware gang
Ransomware gang Interlock today claimed responsibility for a February 2025 cyber attack on the Aztec Municipal School District in New Mexico. The school district announced a network outage on February 24, 2025 forced schools to cancel classes. It reopened on March 3, 2025, but as of time if writing, the district is still recovering systems and restricting access to the…
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Western Alliance Bank admits cyber attack exposed 22,000 customers
An American bank has admitted nearly 22,000 customers had their accounts compromised following an attack that targeted a zero-day flaw in a third-party file-transfer tool. In a regulatory filing, Arizona-based Western Alliance Bank said attackers had access between 12 and 24 October last year, though the bank reportedly only became aware of the attack in January. Hackers accessed customers’ names,…
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GitHub Action hack likely led to another in cascading supply chain attack
A cascading supply chain attack that began with the compromise of the “reviewdog/action-setup@v1” GitHub Action is believed to have led to the recent breach of “tj-actions/changed-files” that leaked CI/CD secrets. Last week, a supply chain attack on the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action caused malicious code to write CI/CD secrets to the workflow logs for 23,000 repositories. If those logs had been…
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