Photo: Joel Kowsky (AP) A ransomware gang is threatening to release SpaceX’s prized business secret: the design of its rockets. The Lockbit gang claimed it breached Maximum Industries, a fabricator of rocket parts for Elon Musk’s rocket company based in Texas, and pilfered “3,000 drawings” from the contractor, according to …
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The LockBit ransomware gang, which exfiltrated a significant amount of data from Royal Mail‘s IT systems, has leaked some of the data and has also set a new ransom demand of £33 million. Previously, LockBit had demanded a staggering £66 million, which Royal Mail deemed unreasonable and rejected. The group …
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ONE of the north’s biggest construction companies has been targeted by the same ransomware group behind the recent attack on Royal Mail. The Lagan Specialist Contracting Group (SCG) is the latest victim of the LockBit group. The company, which is headquartered in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter, confirmed it had “experienced a …
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo Focus: The United Kingdom , Geo-Specific Hackers Demanded $80 Million in Ransom Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • February 15, 2023 Negotiations between the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service gang and Royal Mail appear to have broken down earlier this month, shortly after a postal representative called …
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Dateline Ukraine at D+337: More DDoS, more scattershot missile strikes. (CyberWire) Russia responds to NATO members’ decision to supply tanks to Ukraine with DDoS, scattershop missile strikes. and a reframing of its war as a defense against NATO aggression. Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 338 (Al Jazeera) As …
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“We’ve confirmed that we’ve had a cyberattack,” Thompson told lawmakers in a hearing with the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee on Tuesday. Royal Mail has seen no evidence of a data breach so far, but has notified the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which oversees data privacy. The …
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Geo Focus: The United Kingdom , Geo-Specific UK Postal Service Testing Workarounds to Tackle Ransomware-Induced Package Backlog Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • January 19, 2023 A Royal Mail van in Scotland (Image: Mathew Schwartz for Information Security Media Group) The British postal service says it is resorting to workarounds …
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A week after the U.K.’s Royal Mail experienced a “cyber incident,” the company says it is still experiencing “severe service disruption” to its outgoing international postal operations, with no clear end in sight. Why it matters: The problems have prevented a large portion of mail from leaving the U.K., leaving …
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Cyber disruptions to the UK’s Royal Mail service, first reported on Wednesday as a “cyber incident,” has now been identified as a ransomware attack, linked to the Russian-affiliated LockBit gang, Computing wrote today. LockBit encryptor found in use. The Telegraph broke the news of the confirmed ransomware attack yesterday, with …
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As Ransomware Group Blames Somebody – Anybody – Else, Could Its Days Be Numbered? Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • January 13, 2023 Royal Mail postbox in Scotland (Image: Mathew Schwartz) What’s the term for when a ransomware group blames a geopolitically awkward attack it appears to have carried …
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