Latest United Kingdom news

London hospitals cancel over 800 operations after ransomware attack

NHS England revealed today that multiple London hospitals impacted by last week's Synnovis ransomware attack were forced to cancel hundreds of planned operations and appointments.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 14, 2024
- 02:05 PM
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Qilin ransomware gang linked to attack on London hospitals

A ransomware attack that hit pathology services provider Synnovis on Monday and impacted several major NHS hospitals in London has now been linked to the Qilin ransomware operation.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 05, 2024
- 01:57 PM
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Major London hospitals disrupted by Synnovis ransomware attack

A ransomware attack affecting pathology and diagnostic services provider Synnovis has impacted healthcare services at multiple major NHS hospitals in London.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 04, 2024
- 12:05 PM
- 0
Cyberattack on IT provider CTS impacts dozens of UK law firms

A cyberattack on CTS, a leading managed service provider (MSP) for law firms and other organizations in the UK legal sector, is behind a major outage impacting numerous law firms and home buyers in the country since Wednesday.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 24, 2023
- 12:13 PM
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British Library knocked offline by weekend cyberattack

The British Library has been hit by a major IT outage affecting its website and many of its services following a "cyber incident" that impacted its systems on Saturday, October 28.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 31, 2023
- 02:58 PM
- 0
US and UK sanction 11 TrickBot and Conti cybercrime gang members

The USA and the United Kingdom have sanctioned eleven Russian nationals associated with the TrickBot and Conti ransomware cybercrime operations.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 07, 2023
- 10:27 AM
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UK gov keeps repeating its voter registration website is NOT a scam

Every year local government bodies or councils across Britain contact residents, asking them to update their voter details on the electoral register if these have changed. To do so, residents are asked to visit HouseholdResponse.com, a domain that looks anything but official and has often confused people, who mistake it for a scam.
- Ax Sharma
- August 13, 2023
- 07:07 AM
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UK Electoral Commission data breach exposes 8 years of voter data

The UK Electoral Commission disclosed a massive data breach exposing the personal information of anyone who registered to vote in the United Kingdom between 2014 and 2022.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 08, 2023
- 10:06 AM
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Hackers warn University of Manchester students of imminent data leak

The ransomware operation behind a cyberattack on the University of Manchester has begun to email students, warning that their data will soon be leaked after an extortion demand was not paid.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 20, 2023
- 04:17 PM
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Royal Mail cyberattack linked to LockBit ransomware operation

A cyberattack on Royal Mail, UK's largest mail delivery service, has been linked to the LockBit ransomware operation.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 12, 2023
- 06:43 PM
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Royal Mail halts international services after cyberattack

The Royal Mail, UK's leading mail delivery service, has stopped its international shipping services due to "severe service disruption" caused by what it described as a "cyber incident."
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 11, 2023
- 12:13 PM
- 0
UK Police arrests teen believed to be behind Uber, Rockstar hacks

The City of London police announced on Twitter today the arrest of a British 17-year-old teen suspected of being involved in recent cyberattacks.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 23, 2022
- 01:58 PM
- 0
UK heat wave causes Google and Oracle cloud outages

An ongoing heatwave in the United Kingdom has led to Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud outages after cooling systems failed at the companies' data centers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 19, 2022
- 04:07 PM
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Crypto robber who lured victims via Snapchat and stole £34,000 jailed

Online crypto scams and ponzi schemes leveraging social media platforms are hardly anything new. But, this gruesome case of a London-based crypto robber transcends the virtual realm and tells a shocking tale of real-life victims from whom the perpetrator successfully stole £34,000.
- Ax Sharma
- May 14, 2022
- 10:02 AM
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UK govt releases free tool to check for email cybersecurity risks

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today released a new email security check service to help organizations easily identify vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to spoof emails or can lead to email privacy breaches.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 10, 2022
- 12:30 PM
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UK govt releasing Nmap scripts to find unpatched vulnerabilities

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the government agency that leads UK's cyber security mission, is releasing NMAP Scripting Engine scripts to help defenders scan for and remediate vulnerable systems on their networks.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 25, 2022
- 01:45 PM
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UK govt shares 585 million passwords with Have I Been Pwned

The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency has contributed more than 585 million passwords to the Have I Been Pwned service that lets users check if their login information has leaked online.
- Ionut Ilascu
- December 20, 2021
- 12:49 PM
- 0
UK govt warns thousands of SMBs their online stores were hacked

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) says it warned the owners of more than 4,000 online stores that their sites were compromised in Magecart attacks to steal the payment info of customers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 22, 2021
- 03:05 PM
- 0
UK Labour Party discloses data breach after ransomware attack

The UK Labour Party notified members that some of their information was impacted in a data breach after a ransomware attack hit a third-party organization that was managing the party's data.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 03, 2021
- 01:22 PM
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Eggfree Cake Box suffer data breach exposing credit card numbers

Eggfree Cake Box has disclosed a data breach after threat actors hacked their website to stole credit card numbers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 17, 2021
- 05:47 PM
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