Royal Mail has revealed a multimillion-pound cost attached to a serious ransomware breach it suffered earlier this year. The British postal service company was hit by a LockBit affiliate, in an incident which caused “severe service disruption” for items sent abroad. It later transpired that the ransomware actors were demanding nearly $80m from the firm […]
SUMMARY Update November 13, 2023 This CSA is being re-released to add new TTPs, IOCs, and information related to Royal Ransomware activity. End of Update Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware variants and ransomware threat actors. These #StopRansomware […]
Royal Mail jeopardizes users with open redirect flaw Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2023 Royal Mail has left an open redirect vulnerability on one of its sites, exposing its customers to phishing attacks and malware infections. The centuries-old Royal Mail is the largest courier company in the UK, boasting twice the market share of Amazon. The […]
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 Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne has fallen victim to a data breach, raising concerns about the potential compromise of personal information belonging to 192 patients. The Royal Women’s Hospital data breach occurred when cyber criminals gained unauthorized access to a staff member’s private email account, which had been used to review and coordinate patient […]
The official website of the UK’s royal family was taken offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Sunday, according to reports. The Royal.uk site was unavailable for around 90 minutes, starting at 10am local time, according to The Independent. It was fully functional again soon after, although Cloudflare checks were in place […]
The Royal ransomware group intruded Dallas’ systems and surveilled and exfiltrated data for a month before it initiated a ransomware attack that threw city operations into disarray last spring, the city said Wednesday in a post-attack report. The prolific ransomware group, which was linked to a spree of attacks in the Dallas metro area, established […]
Royal gained access to the City’s network using a stolen domain service account in early April and maintained access to the compromised systems between April 7 and May 4.