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Last week, Advanced, a key NHS IT partner was hit by a ransomware attack. The IT company has said that it could take three to four weeks for systems to resume normal service. Advanced runs several key systems within the health service. One of its most important clients is the NHS 111 service. The UK Government tried to downplay the seriousness of the incident last week by claiming "minimal disruption." However, reports suggested that it...

International Cyber Expo today announced the speaker line-up for its annual Global Cyber Summit sponsored this year by Snyk, and hosted at Olympia London on the 27th and 28th of September 2022. Introduced by former CEO of NCSC, Professor Ciaran Martin CB, the Summit endeavours to be an educational platform for IT professionals, C-Level executives and board members on the issues impacting the industry; both current and emerging.   In a combination of roundtable discussions, fireside...

Interpol has launched a new awareness campaign that aims to urge individuals not to become money mules, after 15 suspects were arrested in connection with a major romance scam conspiracy. The international policing organisation's Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre (IFCACC) said the two-week global campaign aims to highlight the critical role mules play in modern crime. The campaign will use the hashtag #YourAccountYourCrime on social media in an attempt to remind people that they are...

Hackers have found that a robot dog carrying a submachine gun has a kill switch that can be accessed using a tiny handheld hacking tool. The discovery was posted on Twitter by hackers going by the handles KF@d0tslash and MavProxyUser on GitHub and Twitter. “Good news!” KF@d0tslash said on Twitter. “Remember that robot dog you saw with a gun!? It was made by @UnitreeRobotic. Seems all you need to dump it in the dirt is...

Action has been taken against two cyber espionage operations in South Africa, according to Meta. Action has been taken against Bitter APT and APT36. The announcement was made by the company last Thursday in its Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report, Second Quarter 2022. In the report, Meta's Global Threat Intelligence Lead, Ben Ninmo, and Director of Threat Disruption, David Agranovich, provided insight into the risks Meta saw worldwide and across multiple policy violations. The report stated:...

7-Eleven stores in Denmark closed their doors yesterday after a cyberattack disrupted store payment and checkout systems throughout the country. The attack occurred early on the 8th August, with the company posting on Facebook that they were likely "exposed to a hacker attack". The translated statement says that the company has closed all the stores in the country while investigating the security incident. The statement read: "Unfortunately, we suspect that we have been exposed to...

Twilio, the communications giant, has confirmed that hackers accessed customer data after successfully tricking employees into handing over their corporate login credentials. The company, based in San Francisco, allows users to build voice and SMS capabilities, such as two-factor authentication (2FA), into applications, said that it became aware that someone gained "unauthorised access" to information related to some Twilio customer accounts on 4th August. These findings were published in a blog post on Monday 9th....

A cyberattack, first identified last Thursday, has caused a "major" computer system outage affecting companies within the NHS, including the 111 call line. Reportedly, a number of health and care systems delivered by business software and services provider Advanced are currently experiencing major outages. Advanced has 26 NHS clients, according to Digital Health Intelligence, and they supply services to thousands of healthcare professionals. The company's Adastra software works with 85% of NHS 111 services, where...

Reportedly, a number of health and care systems delivered by business software and services provider Advanced are currently experiencing major outages. Advanced has 26 NHS clients, according to Digital Health Intelligence. The company supply services to thousands of healthcare professionals. The company's Adastra software works with 85% of NHS 111 services. The following systems are currently experiencing major outages: Adastra, Carenotes, Caresys, Crosscare, Staffplan. All outages are being treated as 'critical incidents' and with the...

Slack has notified roughly 0.5% of its users that it reset their passwords after fixing a bug that exposed salted password hashes when creating or revoking shared invitation links for workspaces. Reported by BleepingComputer, Slack said "when a user performed either of these actions, Slack transmitted a hashed version of their password (not plaintext) to other workspace members." "Although this data was shared via the new or deactivated invitation link, the Slack client did not...