Cyber Insights 2025: Identities

The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Capita plc and Capita Pension Solutions Ltd a combined £14m following a cyber attack in April 2023 which saw hackers gain access to over 6m people’s data. Stroud News & Journal reports: Outsourcing giant Capita has been fined £14 million by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to……

Over the past few years, DataBreaches has reported on a breach involving Northeast Radiology and its business associate, Alliance Healthcare Services. In March 2020, Northeast Radiology revealed its patient data was involved in a breach Alliance notified them about in January, 2020. TechCrunch had contacted Northeast Radiology about its unpatched PACS servers in 2019, but…

North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign have been observed dropping a new JavaScript malware called OtterCookie. Contagious Interview (aka DeceptiveDevelopment) refers to a persistent attack campaign that employs social engineering lures, with the hacking crew often posing as recruiters to trick individuals looking for potential job opportunities into

Last week, it appeared that Clinical Diagnostics (“Eurofins”) had paid a gang’s demands not to leak patient data that Nova had exfiltrated during a ransomware attack in July. Clinical Diagnostics in the Netheralands held patient data on 485,000 Dutch women in a cervical cancer screening program. Nova confirmed the payment to a Dutch news outlet…….

In the last of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops explores the implications and opportunities arising from threat actors’ involvement in real-world industries and crimes

Cyber threats and attacks like ransomware continue to increase in volume and complexity with the endpoint typically being the most sought after and valued target. With the rapid expansion and adoption of AI, it is more critical than ever to ensure the endpoint is adequately secured by a platform capable of not just keeping pace,…