Western Sydney University has suffered a major cyber breach, with hackers stealing a range of sensitive student information from tax file numbers and passport details to private health and disability information. The cyber attack happened between June 19 and September 3 this year, the university revealed on Thursday. It is understood the university first spotted […]
The cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will cost an estimated £1.9bn and be the most economically damaging cyber event in UK history, according to researchers. Experts at the Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) have analysed the continuing fallout from the hack, which halted the car giant’s production on 1 September for five weeks and […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) – A more than year-long digital intrusion into cybersecurity company F5 (FFIV.O), opens new tab, publicized last week and blamed on Chinese spies, has defenders across the industry hunting for signs of compromise among the many corporate networks that use its products. Several worry that more disclosures are coming. So far, […]
People should plan for potential cyber-attacks by going back to pen and paper, according to the latest advice. The government has written to chief executives across the country strongly recommending that they should have physical copies of their plans at the ready as a precaution. A recent spate of hacks has highlighted the chaos that […]
A massive escalation in attacks targeting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect login portals, with over 2,200 unique IP addresses conducting reconnaissance operations as of October 7, 2025. This represents a significant surge from the initial 1,300 IPs observed just days earlier, marking the highest scanning activity recorded in the past 90 days according to GreyNoise Intelligence monitoring. […]
The first day of September should have marked the beginning of one of the busiest periods of the year for Jaguar Land Rover. It was a Monday, and the release of new 75 series number plates was expected to trigger a surge in demand. At factories in Solihull and Halewood, as well as at its […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-32463 (CVSS score: 9.3), which affects Sudo versions prior to 1.9.17p1. […]
The vast majority of companies hit by ransomware attacks over the past year have paid up, according to an insurance specialist’s report that warns of mixed outcomes for those who do. Business-to-home insurer Hiscox released its annual Cyber Readiness Report against a backdrop of concern over a series of cyber attacks on high profile names […]
When Tony was signed off for burnout from his cybersecurity awareness role at a major UK ecommerce company last year, it had been a long time coming. “Many of us in cyber, we put our hearts into our job. There’s a lot of passion involved.” He had found it progressively harder to sleep, and to […]
The recent cyberattack aimed at aerospace and defense company Collins Aerospace, which has caused significant disruptions at major airports in Europe, reportedly involved a piece of ransomware known as HardBit. The HardBit ransomware emerged in October 2022 and it came into the spotlight a few months later when it emerged that the cybercriminals were willing to negotiate […]