Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday that would have reaffirmed a nearly 50-year-old ban on placing weapons of mass destruction into orbit, two months after reports Russia has plans to do just that. Russia’s vote against the resolution was no surprise. As one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, […]
The mayor of Calvià, a municipality on the Spanish island of Majorca, has said the city council will not be paying an approximately €10 million extortion fee demanded by criminals following a ransomware attack. Calvià, a region on the southwestern part of the resort island, has around 50,000 residents who have been informed that the […]
Less than two months after a ransomware attack impacted St Helens Borough Council in northwest England, most services at the council are running again. Located between Liverpool and Manchester, the council — the local government authority in an area with about 180,000 residents — announced a “suspected ransomware incident” toward the end of August. It […]
The government council for Scotland’s Western Isles said it is dealing with an IT outage that forced it to provide temporary phone numbers for services. The Comhairle nan Eilean Siar — which governs the more than 470,000 people living on the chain of islands on Scotland’s western coast — said access to the IT system […]
Hong Kong’s Consumer Council has revealed that the personal data of more than 25,000 people may have been leaked in a cyberattack against the watchdog, up from an earlier estimate of 8,000. Gilly Wong Fung-han, chief executive of the council, on Monday also said computer systems operating its external services, such as those handling inquiries […]
The U.S. National Security Council (NSC) is urging the governments of all countries participating in the International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) to issue a joint statement announcing they will not pay ransoms to cybercriminals, according to three sources with knowledge of the plans. CRI’s 47 members will convene in Washington for its annual summit on […]