The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence has been fined £350,000 (about $440,000) for its failure to protect the information of Afghans who worked with the British government and sought relocation shortly after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it is issuing the fine because the mistake “could […]
Tim Neal-Hopes, an Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force, was announced as the new commander of the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Force (NCF) on Monday. Neal-Hopes joins the unit from Strategic Command, where he served as the director for cyber, intelligence and information integration. He is the NCF’s second-ever commander, and the first member […]
The United Kingdom’s premium group of hotels has allegedly been breached by a ransomware group. The BlackBasta ransomware group named the website of Edwardian Hotels London to its victim list in their latest post. Several cybersecurity researchers have reported the Edwardian Hotels cyberattack with screenshots of claims made by the BlackBasta group. The website of […]
A distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack launched against royal.uk, the official website for the United Kingdom’s royal family took the site offline. The attack was launched on October 1 and saw the site go offline for around 90 minutes. Once the site was functional again, a Cloudflare IP address checker was put in place to ensure those […]
KNP Logistics, described by its administrators as one of the United Kingdom’s largest privately owned logistics groups, declared itself insolvent on Monday, blaming a ransomware attack back in June. Approximately 730 employees will be made redundant as a result of the administration process, although one of the group’s key entities has been sold, saving about […]