Latest UK news

London hospitals cancel over 800 operations after ransomware attack

NHS England revealed today that multiple London hospitals impacted by last week's Synnovis ransomware attack were forced to cancel hundreds of planned operations and appointments.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 14, 2024
- 02:05 PM
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London hospitals face blood shortage after Synnovis ransomware attack

England's NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has issued an urgent call to O Positive and O Negative blood donors to book appointments and donate after last week's cyberattack on pathology provider Synnovis impacted multiple hospitals in London.
- Bill Toulas
- June 10, 2024
- 11:43 AM
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23andMe data breach under investigation in UK and Canada

Privacy authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom have launched a joint investigation to assess the scope of sensitive customer information exposed in last year's 23andMe data breach.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 10, 2024
- 11:00 AM
- 1
UK confirms Ministry of Defence payroll data exposed in data breach

The UK Government confirmed today that a threat actor recently breached the country's Ministry of Defence and gained access to part of the Armed Forces payment network.
- Ionut Ilascu
- May 07, 2024
- 03:41 PM
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UK e-visa rollout starts today for millions: no more physical immigration cards

Starting today, millions living in the UK will receive email invitations to sign up for an e-visa account that will replace their physical immigration documents like Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs). The move is, according to the Home Office, "a key step in creating a modernised and digital border."
- Ax Sharma
- April 17, 2024
- 01:48 AM
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UK flooded with forged stamps despite using barcodes — to prevent just that

Royal Mail, the British postal and courier service began switching all snail mail stamps to barcoded stamps last year. The purpose of the barcode was to enhance security, deter stamp reuse, and possibly prevent forgeries—which it has failed to do.
- Ax Sharma
- April 13, 2024
- 05:05 AM
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Cyberattack on UK’s CVS Group disrupts veterinary operations

UK veterinary services provider CVS Group has announced that it suffered a cyberattack that disrupted IT services at its practices across the country.
- Bill Toulas
- April 08, 2024
- 10:45 AM
- 0
UK bakery Greggs is latest victim of recent POS system outages

UK bakery chain Greggs is the latest victim of recent point of sale system outages that forced store closures at large retail chains over the past few weeks.
- Bill Toulas
- March 20, 2024
- 11:27 AM
- 1
Russian hackers shift to cloud attacks, US and allies warn

Members of the Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance warned today that APT29 Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) hackers are now switching to attacks targeting their victims' cloud services.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 26, 2024
- 12:31 PM
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UK to replace physical biometric immigration cards with e-visas

By 2025, Britain is set to ditch physical immigration documents like Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs) and Biometric Residence Cards (BRCs) in a bid to make its borders digital, in-line with developed countries like Australia. Understand what these Home Office changes mean for existing BRP and BRC holders, and what you need to do.
- Ax Sharma
- February 10, 2024
- 05:00 AM
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The Week in Ransomware - January 26th 2024 - Govts strike back

Governments struck back this week against members of ransomware operations, imposing sanctions on one threat actor and sentencing another to prison.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 27, 2024
- 12:19 PM
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UK says AI will empower ransomware over the next two years

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that artificial intelligence (AI) tools will have an adverse near-term impact on cybersecurity, helping escalate the threat of ransomware.
- Bill Toulas
- January 24, 2024
- 11:56 AM
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Water services giant Veolia North America hit by ransomware attack

Veolia North America, a subsidiary of transnational conglomerate Veolia, disclosed a ransomware attack that impacted systems part of its Municipal Water division and disrupted its bill payment systems.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 23, 2024
- 04:52 PM
- 0
Cyberattack on IT provider CTS impacts dozens of UK law firms

A cyberattack on CTS, a leading managed service provider (MSP) for law firms and other organizations in the UK legal sector, is behind a major outage impacting numerous law firms and home buyers in the country since Wednesday.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 24, 2023
- 12:13 PM
- 0
British Library: Ongoing outage caused by ransomware attack

The British Library confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind a major outage that is still affecting services across several locations.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 17, 2023
- 08:37 AM
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New Samsung data breach impacts UK store customers

Samsung Electronics is notifying some of its customers of a data breach that exposed their personal information to an unauthorized individual.
- Ionut Ilascu
- November 15, 2023
- 06:07 PM
- 1
British Library knocked offline by weekend cyberattack

The British Library has been hit by a major IT outage affecting its website and many of its services following a "cyber incident" that impacted its systems on Saturday, October 28.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 31, 2023
- 02:58 PM
- 0
Manchester Police officers' data exposed in ransomware attack

United Kingdom's Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said earlier today that some of its employees' personal information was impacted by a ransomware attack that hit a third-party supplier.
- Bill Toulas
- September 14, 2023
- 11:13 AM
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UK gov keeps repeating its voter registration website is NOT a scam

Every year local government bodies or councils across Britain contact residents, asking them to update their voter details on the electoral register if these have changed. To do so, residents are asked to visit HouseholdResponse.com, a domain that looks anything but official and has often confused people, who mistake it for a scam.
- Ax Sharma
- August 13, 2023
- 07:07 AM
- 2
UK Electoral Commission data breach exposes 8 years of voter data

The UK Electoral Commission disclosed a massive data breach exposing the personal information of anyone who registered to vote in the United Kingdom between 2014 and 2022.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 08, 2023
- 10:06 AM
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