British police are investigating attempts to target Members of Parliament, their advisers and other Conservative and Labour insiders via spear-phishing messages as part of an apparent honeytrap sexting scam. Experts say low-tech attacks based on social engineering remain difficult to detect.
A Filipino hacktivist group broke into servers owned and operated by the government's Department of Science and Technology and stole up to 25 terabytes of confidential data and backups. The hacking incident followed a series of successful cyberattacks against government agencies.
The United States and the United Kingdom signed a landmark artificial intelligence agreement on Monday to work together to develop tests for the most advanced AI models and share research capabilities. The countries also committed to developing similar partnerships with other nations.
After suffering a data breach, organizations that work closely with regulators and cybersecurity officials will be treated with greater leniency if their case results in penalties and a fine, says new guidance on data protection fines published by the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office.
The pace of cybersecurity improvements has stagnated at many Britain organizations over the past year, driven in part by budget and staffing challenges, according to a new U.K. government report designed to assess domestic business resilience and the country's collective cybersecurity posture.
The Conservative government of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says it won't champion a reinsurance plan for cyber insurance similar to flood insurance, telling a parliamentary committee it doesn't want to "damage competition." Global ransomware payments surged to record levels during 2023.
A last-ditch attempt by British lawmakers to amend a bill expanding electronic communication interception by the U.K. authorities failed despite concerns over pervasive surveillance. The proposal would authorize interception of bulk personal datasets with "limited or no expectation of privacy."
South Korean intelligence service officials have blamed North Korean hackers for targeting the country's semiconductor manufacturing companies. Hackers who gain access to chip-making technology and product designs could hurt South Korea’s leadership in the semiconductor industry.
The U.K. telecom regulator Ofcom faces "significant challenges" in implementing the newly passed Online Safety Act, which is intended to protect children from online harm, says analysis by the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts.
Australian telecom company Tangerine is blaming the compromise of a third-party contractor's credentials for exposing personal information of 232,000 customers, which had been stored in a legacy database. The breach exposed customers' names, birthdates, mobile numbers, addresses and account numbers.
The South Korean President's Office told local media Tuesday that suspected North Korean hackers had targeted the private email account of an official in November ahead of the president's state visits to the U.K. and France. Local reports suggest the hackers accessed the details of scheduled events.
Large language models may boost the capabilities of novice hackers but are of little use to threat actors past their salad days, concludes a British governmental evaluation. "There may be a limited number of tasks in which use of currently deployed LLMs could increase the capability of a novice."
Fraudsters used deepfake technology to trick an employee at a Hong Kong-based multinational company to transfer $25.57 million to their bank accounts. Hong Kong Police said Sunday that the fraudsters had created deepfake likenesses of top company executives in a video conference to fool the worker.
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice used a court order to disrupt a Chinese hacking operation that compromised thousands of internet-connected devices and targeted sensitive areas of U.S. critical infrastructure, according to media reports.
The U.K. government is mulling the rollout of a voluntary set of rules urging software vendors to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in their systems. The measure comes as the government continues to face criticism over poor management of legacy infrastructure.
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