Case Study: University of West England uses Sophos solutions to protect thousands of students across multiple campuses
As higher education institutions come under fire from threat actors, 24/7 vigilance is key
Similar Posts
ThreatsDay Bulletin: FortiGate RaaS, Citrix Exploits, MCP Abuse, LiveChat Phish & More
Bys sThreatsDay Bulletin is back on The Hacker News, and this week feels off in a familiar way. Nothing loud, nothing breaking everything at once. Just a lot of small things that shouldn’t work anymore but still do. Some of it looks simple, almost sloppy, until you see how well it lands. Other bits feel a…
Handala Hackers Alleges Massive Data Breach of Tamir Pardo, Former Mossad Chief
Bys sAs posted by the Iranian news agency, WANA: The hacker group Handala announced that it has released 14 gigabytes of personal and highly confidential documents belonging to Tamir Pardo as proof of concept (PoC). A message from Handala that accompanies some screengrabs offered as proof of claims states, in part: Today, Handala proudly announces that……
Jaguar Land Rover production impacted by cyberattack; Scattered Spider/ShinyHunters claims responsibility
Bys sChris Vallance and Theo Leggett of the BBC report: A cyber-attack has “severely disrupted” Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) vehicle production, including at its two main UK plants. The company, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, said it took immediate action to lessen the impact of the hack and is working quickly to restart operations…….
Researchers Find Exploit Allowing NTLMv1 Despite Active Directory Restrictions
Bys sCybersecurity researchers have found that the Microsoft Active Directory Group Policy that’s designed to disable NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v1 can be trivially bypassed by a misconfiguration. “A simple misconfiguration in on-premise applications can override the Group Policy, effectively negating the Group Policy designed to stop NTLMv1 authentications,” Silverfort researcher Dor Segal said in a
Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices
Bys sBill Toulas reports: An international law enforcement action dismantled a Romanian ransomware gang known as ‘Diskstation,’ which encrypted the systems of several companies in the Lombardy region, paralyzing their businesses. The law enforcement operation codenamed ‘Operation Elicius’ was coordinated by Europol and also involved police forces in France and Romania. Diskstation is a ransomware operation…
GlassWorm Returns with 24 Malicious Extensions Impersonating Popular Developer Tools
Bys sThe supply chain campaign known as GlassWorm has once again reared its head, infiltrating both Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX with 24 extensions impersonating popular developer tools and frameworks like Flutter, React, Tailwind, Vim, and Vue. GlassWorm was first documented in October 2025, detailing its use of the Solana blockchain for command-and-control (C2)…