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The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reprimanded Data Cymru (Local Government Data Unit – Wales) and its IT provider Ogi Networks Limited (ONL) over a November 2024 ransomware attack. The attackers gained access through a legacy test account, 'Test 2', which had existed for more than 12 years and was protected only by the pa…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Secretary Markwayne Mullin) ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products, and any third-party products or services "developed using DeepSeek implementations", from their IT systems. The order is dated July 24, 2026, was issued under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Ac…
Robert Wayne Boling Jr., a 45-year-old US citizen living in Angeles City, Philippines, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, the US Department of Justice announced. Prosecutors call him the principal orchestrator of a scheme that used stolen PII to compromise bank accounts of thousands of US servicemember…
A Semperis survey, covered by HIPAA Journal, finds ransomware groups increasingly threatening victims' employees and their families as the share of victims paying ransoms falls from 78% in 2024 to 69% in 2025 and 59% in 2026. Of the attacks surveyed, 37% involved threats against friends or family of staff, and 41% of respondents said they…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand and an enforcement notice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) over governance failures in its use of the third-party Auror retail crime intelligence-sharing platform. Between March 2023 and September 2024, MPS officers and staff used Auror without formal approval, …
The Department of Justice announced 28 arrests across California on Monday under Operation Protect the Vote. The defendants are foreign nationals and permanent green card holders charged with fraudulently registering to vote and making false statements in naturalization applications. Officials say all 28 appear on a list of more than 20,0…
The UK Information Commission's Office (ICO) issued reprimands, not fines, to Ogi Networks Limited (ONL) and the Local Government Data Unit – Wales (Data Cymru) after a ransomware attack on 1 November 2024. The intruder used a forgotten test account, Test2, created in January 2012 with the password "Password1", to enter Data Cymru's netwo…
A 28-year-old Russian man, identified by German media only as "Vladimir K", has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of being a key member of the Qilin ransomware gang. He was first detained in Japan in May while on holiday and was extradited to Germany earlier this month. German investigators are examining possible links between him and…
ESET WeLiveSecurity published a guidance article on 'nudify' apps, which use generative AI to turn images of clothed people into synthetic nude images. The resulting non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) is used by fraudsters, bullies and cybercriminals, including for blackmail. An Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and AI Security I…
Episode 488 of the Smashing Security podcast, hosted by Graham Cluley with guest Paul Ducklin, covers several recent security stories. The lead item is the arrest by the FBI of an executive at a ransomware negotiation firm, reportedly at a cybersecurity conference, in connection with the investigation into the ShinyHunters gang. The hosts…
A reader comment on Schneier on Security discusses the arrest of a suspect in a case involving the hacking of FBI systems. The comment cites Reuters reporting that the person involved was a contractor working for Accenture, and that the bureau says it has "removed the contractor" and taken steps to protect its workforce. The commenter, Cl…
A New Jersey court has ordered radaris.com and 13 other domains in the Radaris family of people-search sites transferred to Atlas Data Privacy Corp. The ruling came after the defendants repeatedly failed to appear and defend a suit alleging violations of Daniel's Law, which requires data brokers to remove personal information of law enfor…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a reprimand and enforcement notice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after officers and staff shared personal information through the unapproved third-party platform Auror without adequate data protection safeguards. The platform was used between March 2023 and September 2024, w…
The Department of Homeland Security is barring civilian federal agencies from buying or using IT products and services from Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence and its affiliates. The notice, due in the Federal Register, cites the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Act and a review by the Federal Acquisition Security Council. An accom…
A Semperis annual ransomware risk report, covered by The Register, finds that 37% of ransomware attacks involved psychological or physical threats against victim staff. The survey covered 1,200 post-ransomware organizations in the first half of 2026. Respondents reported psychological intimidation (23%) and physical threats (17%), aimed a…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group (report of October 16) tracks a suspected Chinese-speaking actor, TAG-217, linked to attacks on South Korean financial institutions. The actor used Claude Code, DeepSeek, Grok and Zhipu AI alongside ARTEX, an open-source Chinese-language AI penetration testing framework. Public reporting cited in the investi…
The European Commission has opened an investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA) into whether Booking.com, a very large online platform with more than 45 million EU users, does enough to stop fraudsters using it for scams, phishing and smishing. Officials described the company's fraud defenses as "absolutely substandard". The prob…
A joint advisory from US, German and UK government agencies, including CISA, says the SafePay ransomware group has compromised at least 600 critical infrastructure organizations since emerging in August 2024. Victims are in North America, South America, Europe and Australia. SafePay has been one of the most active ransomware groups in 202…
A BushidoToken journal entry reviews four 2026 UK prosecutions involving teenage offenders at the intersection of cybercrime and online extremism. In July 2026, Thalha Jubair (20) and Owen Flowers (18), part of the Scattered Spider collective, were each sentenced to five years and six months for the late August 2024 breach of Transport fo…
A 40-year-old Nigerian national, Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a US federal court for a 2019-2023 scheme that combined hacking of US tax preparation businesses, filing of fraudulent tax returns and fake investment fraud. He used identities stolen from victim organizations to file false returns wit…
