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British MPs were targeted in a co-ordinated hacking attempt this year, according to intelligence officials, an attack that has raised concern over foreign meddling in the forthcoming election.The attack was politically motivated, a senior security official told the Financial Times, and was likely to have been the work of a state. Officials said they could not discuss further details because of operational sensitivity and because the threat was still present. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE:...

Latest evidence suggests "phishing" emails are unlikely to have caused the global cyber attack that wreaked havoc at dozens of NHS trusts and hit hundreds of thousands of computers in 150 countries. Security experts have disputed claims that the virus was spread through suspicious emails, saying that computers were vulnerable to the bug regardless of how vigilant users were. Experts said that unless IT departments patched the virus and backed up their files they could be hit by...

Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has found a “noticeable decline” in the number of overall distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a change to how they were dispersed by country. Kaspersky released late last week its Q1 2017 DDoS Intelligence Report, which confirms forecasts about the evolution of DDoS attacks made by the company’s experts following the company’s 2016 results. Despite the growing popularity of complex DDoS attacks continuing into the first quarter of the year,...

Planned orthopaedic outpatient clinics on all sites will not take place today and will be rescheduled as soon as possible, Northumbria NHS has said. It follows the healthcare services' ongoing recovery from the global cyber attack which took place on Friday 12th May. Northumbria NHS has said it continues to experience disruption to some planned services, and that people with minor ailments should avoid using emergency services. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ITV

Electronic signatures outfit DocuSign has warned world+dog that one of its email systems was cracked by phisherpholk. The company has of late reported an extensive phishing campaign that sees messages with the subject line “Completed *company name* - Accounting Invoice *number* Document Ready for Signature” land in plenty of inboxes. As is the way with such things the mail carried a link to a Microsoft Word document bearing “macro-enabled-malware.” View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The...

You may not have heard of the Lazarus Group, but you may be aware of its work. The devastating hack on Sony Pictures in 2014, and another on a Bangladeshi bank in 2016, have both been attributed to the highly sophisticated group. It is widely believed that the Lazarus Group worked out of China, but on behalf of the North Koreans. Security experts are now cautiously linking the Lazarus Group to this latest attack after a discovery...

Security researchers have detected a new strain of malware dubbed Baijiu that targets people curious about what happens within North Korea. According to security firm Cylance, the new advanced threat "abuses global concern about the dire humanitarian situation in North Korea" by luring victims with a malicious file that offers insight into the devastating flood that the hit North Hamgyong province last year. The phishing bait reads: "2016 North Korea Hamgyung province flood insight." View full story...

Personal information held by Government departments is being breached at least once an hour, a little-noticed study recently revealed. The damning report – by the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee (PAC) – found insufficient measures were in place to stop sensitive data being lost, wrongly shared or hacked, potentially leading to ‘significant harm’. There were an astonishing 8,995 data breaches in the 17 largest Whitehall departments in 2015 – a staggering 24 a day, according to...

The confidential codes required to access United Airlines' cockpits have been accidentally leaked to the public in what the airline calls a mistake, rather than a data breach. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the airline sent out a blast alert to employees over the weekend warning them of the inadvertent code leak, caused by a flight attendant who posted the information online. Within the email sent to employees, the airline said that a "corrective...

A hacker who has previously hacked Isis Twitter accounts with gay porn appears to have done it again. WachulaGhost, a hacker who is associated with Anonymous, first targeted the terror group in the wake of the Orlando attack at the Pulse nightclub after Omar Mateen shot 49 people dead. He said that hacking Isis is actually easier than you would think and he had managed to access more than 250 of their social media accounts. He previously...