🇷🇴💧 Romania’s national water management agency announced on Sunday being hit by a ransomware attack that left staff locked out of approximately 1,000 computer systems.

PA Supreme Court allows police to use Google searches in rape case w/o warrant. Authorities asked Google to check whether anyone had searched for the victim's address. Google found a hit, leading police to suspect. Court: There is no expectation of privacy on internet therecord.media/google-searc...

New: A British technology company whose software is widely used throughout the National Health Service told investors this morning it had detected a cybersecurity incident affecting its internal systems.

I don't think the MoD has a Bluesky account, so resharing its X post here about Lance Corporal George Hooley. "Before his passing, Lance Corporal Hooley wrote a letter to his family and friends to be opened in the event of his death. At their request, we now share his words with you."

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has changed its mind about who will be the new No. 2 at the National Security Agency, amid internal White House opposition to the pick and attacks from far-right conservatives. Only on @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/announced-ns...

The British subsidiary of password management company LastPass was fined £1.2 million ($1.6 million) on Thursday by the United Kingdom’s privacy regulator for a data breach in 2022.

The United Kingdom imposed new sanctions Tuesday against several Russian and Chinese organizations accused of undermining the West through both cyberattacks and influence operations. By @alexmartin.bsky.social on @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/uk-sanctions...

Encountered this curious account. Won, of course.

I suspect they will say the United Kingdom attempted to maximise its strategic advantage through its relationship with the United States rather than attempt to win over malcontents on social media.

In their latest for Binding Hook, @nca-uk.bsky.social’s William Lyne and @rusi.bsky.social's @jamiemaccoll.bsky.social look at the challenges facing UK law enforcement as cybercriminals become more diverse at home and abroad: bindinghook.com/local-hacker...

What does it mean that three separate China-linked groups all moved on the same SharePoint vulnerabilities at nearly the same time? Three hacking groups, two vulnerabilities and all eyes on China | therecord.media/three-hackin... @therecordmedia.bsky.social

New: Cybersecurity experts say a worrying pattern is emerging. Earlier this year, three separate China-linked hacking groups all attempted to exploit the same SharePoint vulnerabilities at almost the exact same time. There are good reasons to believe it wasn't a coincidence.

New: Security experts working for British intelligence warned on Monday that large language models may never be fully protected from “prompt injection,” a growing type of cyber threat that manipulates AI systems into ignoring their original instructions.

bit on the nose imho

TALLINN, Estonia — NATO this week challenged around 1,300 participants in a cyberdefense exercise to guard against major attacks on critical infrastructure including power plants, fuel depots, commercial satellites and military networks.

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

The British government on Thursday imposed sanctions on Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, and a number of the agency’s cyber officers after a public inquiry concluded it was responsible for a deadly nerve agent attack on British soil in 2018.

Good to see initiatives like Share and Defend having some success. "Online content such as fake shops, phishing sites and malicious links, including from emails reported to the NCSC by the public, are being blocked automatically providing better protection at scale."

South Korea’s largest online retailer, Coupang, apologized on Sunday after confirming the personal details of 33.7 million customer accounts had been compromised. ➡️ Breach equivalent to 65% of 🇰🇷 pop ➡️ Govt held emergency meeting ➡️ Chinese former employee suspected ➡️ Police “tracking them down”

I've only just noticed Microsoft's increased list of origin family names for cyber threat actors. Presumably it hasn't come up with names for the sake of it, so can we assume that Microsoft has visibility over New Zealand's cyber operations? Can we assume New Zealand conducts these unilaterally?

'There is no peace process. This is not negotiations over peace: it is the transmission of surrender demands from Russia with the active facilitation of the United States.' Read @keirgiles.bsky.social analysis on the Trump administration's proposed 28-point peace plan for Ukraine⤵️

A lack of liability for software vendors is among the most pressing issues putting Britain’s economic and national security at risk, an influential committee of lawmakers warned on Monday.

RIP the great Jimmy Cliff. What a song this is.

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Thalha Jubair, 19, and Owen Flowers, 18, were arrested at their homes in East London and Walsall, respectively, by officers from the National Crime Agency in September. They appeared at London's Southwark Crown Court on Friday to enter their pleas.

Some great coverage this morning across the British media about the findings of Operation Destabilise. ICYMI, last year we published the inside story of how pulling at the thread of a ransomware group's extortion funds ended up unravelling the state-linked Russian-speaking money laundering network.

Investigators at the U.K.’s National Crime Agency say cash generated by Britain’s local drug trade was funnelled through a bank connected to the Kremlin’s intelligence services and sanctioned defense sector, expanding the known scope of a vast Russian money laundering network uncovered last year.

A rail line linking Warsaw to the eastern Polish city of Lublin and onward to Ukraine was blown up yesterday in an “act of sabotage,” Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said today.

Are we in a new cold war? Very interesting answer from John Foreman in Britain's World, alongside many others for whoever cares to read them all: www.britainsworld.org.uk/p/the-big-as...

FCDO has launched a vulnerability reporting system. www.gov.uk/guidance/rep...

After more than four years of development and multiple delays, the British government on Wednesday introduced its landmark Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to Parliament, threatening large fines for companies that fail to protect themselves from cyberattacks. Here's what you need to know ⤵️

A senior U.S. military officer with no digital warfare experience has emerged as a top contender to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, Recorded Future News has learned. ✍️ @martinmatishak.bsky.social with the scoop

NEW: Google is taking legal action against Chinese cybercriminals responsible for sending out millions of scam text messages—including those parcel delivery scams. Google hopes the lawsuit will help to disrupt the scammers' sprawling infrastructure

🏥 More than a year after a ransomware group published blood test information regarding NHS patients’ sexually transmitted infections and cancer cases, the company directly impacted by the breach, Synnovis, says it is beginning the process that will notify the individuals impacted.

I honestly think we do ourselves enormous damage by joking about Russian technological advances. This is a genuinely groundbreaking moment and one we should all take a moment to recognise; a humanoid robot trained to perfectly mimic the gait and coordination of Dmitry Medvedev flawlessly.

Hmmm.

Short-term renewal of cyber information sharing law appears in bill to end shutdown On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/cisa-2015-in...

"Paranoia is a constant friend of hackers." In an exclusive interview for our podcast, we went inside a Colorado prison to interview former Most Wanted cyber criminal 'Tank'. Vyacheslav Penchukov, climbed to the top of the Russian-speaking cyber-underworld. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thank you so much to everyone for your support! I'm glad I completed it, although I wish I'd managed it in a much quicker time. Still, it's good to have completed a half marathon and hopefully I can improve on my time in the future!

Hackers have launched five cyberattacks against Britain's drinking water suppliers since the beginning of last year, according to reports filed with the drinking water watchdog and partially disclosed to Recorded Future News under freedom of information laws.

Just a few more days to go before this race. I'm hugely grateful to the wonderful people who have donated so far and the thought of not letting you all down will keep me going when things start to get tough about the 2km mark 😅

Many months in the reporting - my investigation into Amazon warehouses is finally live today. A huge thank you to the workers and others who spoke to me, on and off the record. inews.co.uk/news/human-c...

Fascinating to read the reporting about Sheffield Hallam's treatment of Professor Laura Murphy. It's also another great opportunity to share this excellent article in @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social about Chinese students in Sheffield.

"The documents she obtained showed the university "had negotiated directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market," she told the BBC". www.bbc.com/news/article...

After a months-long leadership vacuum amid intense scrutiny from one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal far-right supporters, the National Security Agency is readying a number of senior personnel moves meant to reinvigorate the organization. ➡ ✍️ @martinmatishak.bsky.social with the news:

EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.

Today: The Counter Ransomware Initiative met in Singapore, with the UK govt using the opportunity to celebrate its "tough new proposals to crack down on ransomware attacks." But, as opposition MPs complained earlier this week, there are some real concerns about turning those proposals into laws...

British opposition lawmakers said this week it was “deeply concerning” the government had still not introduced new cybersecurity laws to Parliament, warning that “gaps in our legislation” are “fuelling even greater threats against our nation.”

Britain’s security agencies are grappling with the most “contested and complex” threat environment in decades, one of the country’s most senior spies warned on Wednesday. Those attacks are coming “from all sorts of dimensions,” Anne Keast-Butler said, including “states cooperating with each other.”