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Records were exported from the management information system (MIS) of Southville Primary School in Bristol during a targeted cyberattack, according to Bristol City Council. The council has not disclosed what data was taken or how many students, parents or staff are affected. The school has notified affected parents and guardians and repor…
A vehicle belonging to school photography firm Pret-a-Portrait was broken into overnight on 6-7 October, and a camera bag containing SD memory cards was stolen. The cards may hold photographs taken at Priory School in Lewes, UK, plus images of QR code cards showing pupils' names and class names. The same equipment was used for three furth…
An unauthorized party used a compromised login credential to access a file transfer (SFTP) site belonging to Educational Testing Service (ETS) and copy files containing California public school student data, according to the California Department of Education (CDE). ETS supports the state's CAASPP and ELPAC assessment programs. Access occ…
Unit 42 reports that a threat actor using the handle BUGSTER set up DeepSeek V4 as the reasoning engine of an AI-assisted cybercrime operation against organizations in India, including universities. AI-generated reconnaissance and scripts were used to brute-force a university website. In a separate intrusion, the actor exfiltrated a Mongo…
Federal investigators examining ShinyHunters have uncovered potential links between the extortion group and executives at two ransomware negotiation firms, according to a KrebsOnSecurity report published on October 19. An executive at an unnamed U.S. consulting firm (reportedly 1,000+ employees) allegedly helped operate the group's extort…
U.S. federal investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which recently stole sensitive personnel data from the FBI recruitment site fbijobs.gov, reportedly identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms with unusually close ties to the group. One U.S. consulting firm executive is suspected of helping operate the now-defunct extortion…
A Kroll report published on October 22 finds that 69% of data breach victims over June 2025 to June 2026 were affected through a third-party breach. In 79% of those cases, the data was accessed after the compromise of a technology company. Finance (9%), insurance (6%) and healthcare (5%) accounted for far smaller shares of third-party-sou…
Insikt Group (Recorded Future) observed a 48% rise in reported cyberattacks on Japanese organizations between Q2 and Q3 2026, from 621 to 918 incidents. Masaaki Taira, head of Japan's NCSH, declared a "state of emergency in cyberspace". Victims span retail, rail, logistics, media, education and software. Incidents involved ransomware, sto…
