Asokan is a U.K.-based senior correspondent for Information Security Media Group's global news desk. She previously worked with IDG and other publications, reporting on developments in technology, minority rights and education.
The cyber incident at the Royal Mail that is impeding exports from the United Kingdom is reportedly a ransomware attack by the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service group. Britain's national postal service told customers Thursday not to post export items.
The Guardian newspaper told staffers Wednesday that a December 2022 cyber incident was a ransomware attack and that hackers have accessed staff information. The breach is limited to U.K. staff and no personal data of readers or staff in its U.S. or Australian offices has been affected.
A pro-Russian hacking group took credit for a spate of service disruptions Danish banks experienced on Tuesday. The group, NoName057(16), is among a handful of cybercrime groups launching distributed denial-of-service attacks in putative support of the Russian government.
The United Nations will commence a hearing for its first-ever global treaty on cybercrime this week to focus on state response to cybercrime and coordinated intelligence sharing. The proposed treaty seeks to legally categorize various cybercrimes and develop a unified international response.
The French data privacy agency has fined Apple 8 million euros for an ad personalization tracker that violated the country's privacy laws. The fine against Apple was announced on the same day the Irish Data Protection agency fined Meta Ireland for similar violations.
The Irish Data Protection Commission has imposed a fine of 390 million euros against Meta Ireland for violating the General Data Protection Regulation related to user data processing. Meta confirmed it will contest the penalty, which targets ad personalization by Facebook and Instagram.
Britain's The Guardian newspaper has asked staff to continue working from home until Jan. 23 as the company continues to resolve issues with its network, which was compromised by ransomware hackers in December. The attack affected on-premises infrastructure but left cloud-based systems unscathed.
A Toronto pediatric hospital says it has restored nearly two-thirds of the systems affected by a mid-December ransomware attack but will evaluate whether to use a decryptor supplied by the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service group. LockBit says an affiliate violated a policy against attacking hospitals.
One of Europe's busiest ports is added to the list of LockBit ransomware victims. The hacking group targeted Portugal's Port of Lisbon on Christmas Day, giving the facility a deadline of Jan.18 to pay a ransom of $1.5 million in exchange for deletion of their data.
One of the primary healthcare systems in the northwestern Italian city of Alessandria has been listed as a recent victim of the Ragnar Locker ransomware group, which has leaked stolen data and appears to be continuing to try and extort the organization.
Nearly a week after a ransomware attack forced a network shutdown at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, patients are still experiencing delays in treatment and diagnostic procedures. The hospital says it has restored some systems, phones and websites, but the recovery process could take weeks.
Belgian banking giant Degroof Petercam is warning hundreds of clients that their employees are at risk of fraud after personal details tied to their stock option plans were accessed, potentially by an ex-employee. The bank has reported the data breach to the Belgian Data Protection Authority.
The French data protection authority fined Microsoft Ireland 60 million euros for privacy and security practices relating to a Bing search engine advertising cookie. The company has three months to get the consent of the French users before further deployment of the cookie.
A banking Trojan is on a rampage thanks to its ability to mimic the appearance of more than 400 applications, including leading financial and crypto exchange applications, in 16 countries. Godfather is an upgraded version of the Anubis banking Trojan, reports cybersecurity firm Group-IB.
Europe took a key step in formalizing a framework to underpin the trans-Atlantic flow of commercial data but privacy activists say the EU-U.S. agreement won't stand up to a legal challenge. The Commission on Dec. 13 issued a draft adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
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