The Record

The current system of accountability has left much of the British government vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a new Government Cyber Action Plan, with responsibilities for risk “unclear at all levels.”

The scheme starts with a fake reservation cancellation that impersonates a popular booking site, and eventually prompts victims with an error message and “Blue Screen of Death” page.

A cyberattack has forced a high school in central England to remain closed following the Christmas holidays.

The European Commission is looking “very seriously” into taking action against the social media platform X following an incident in which its artificial intelligence tool Grok was used to create sexual images of a minor.

A cyberattack last year against the Catholic healthcare organization Covenant Health exposed the sensitive information of more than 478,000 people.

The campaign has been attributed to APT36, also known as Transparent Tribe, a long-running threat actor accused of spying on Indian government bodies, military-linked organizations and universities.

Regulators in Europe are weighing taking action against Elon Musk’s social media platform X after its artificial intelligence tool Grok was used to create sexually explicit images of a minor.

The claims administration company Sedgwick confirmed that a subsidiary that contracts with a handful of sensitive federal agencies is dealing with a cybersecurity incident.

Two crew members of a Baltic Sea vessel have been arrested and two are under a travel ban after Finnish authorities boarded the ship following a subsea cable break suspected to be sabotage.

Disruptions in telecommunications services were tracked to fresh damage of Baltic Sea cables, leading Finnish authorities to seize a ship suspected of sabotage.

The Treasury Department has taken three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off a sanctions list, reversing their designation in 2024 by the Biden administration.

Two Americans who worked for incident response firms face up to 20 years in prison for turning ransomware upon U.S. businesses.

U.S. and Australian cyber agencies confirmed that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability impacting data storage systems from the company MongoDB.

Two banks have informed regulators in Maine that recent data breaches were sourced back to a cyberattack on Marquis Software.

France’s data protection regulator has fined the software company Nexpublica France €1.7 million ($2 million) for poor cybersecurity practices in the wake of a data breach.

South Korean online retailer Coupang is defending its response to a major data breach by an insider, releasing more details of the investigation — including a MacBook recovered from a river bottom.

France’s national postal service La Poste said on Friday that operations had been restored following a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that began earlier in the week.

Grigol Liluashvili, who ran the Republic of Georgia's state security service from 2020 until April of this year, is facing allegations that he protected scam call centers that defrauded victims around the world.

The software giant ServiceNow announced that it is acquiring the cyber firm Armis for $7.75 billion.

An organization is looking to develop a first-of-its-kind managed security service provider (MSSP) model tailored specifically for rural water utilities.