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The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
2023-03-13 10:32

Let's start with a couple of plums from the US, where - hold onto your peaked caps - law enforcement officials have been breaking the law, wholesale. The government says, with a straight face, that to Protect the Children it must install back doors in end-to-end encryption.

US, UK slap sanctions on Russians linked to Conti, Ryuk, Trickbot malware
2023-02-10 07:24

The US and UK have sanctioned seven Russians for their alleged roles in disseminating Conti and Ryuk ransomware and the Trickbot banking trojan. Conti and Ryuk ransomware extorted at least £27 million from 149 UK individuals and businesses, according to the government's estimate.

UK Cyber Security Centre's scary new story: One phish, two phish, Russia phish, Iran phish
2023-01-27 05:32

The NSCS has attributed the campaigns to a Russia-based group called SEABORGIUM and the Iran-based TA453 group, also known as APT42. The threat groups target individuals working in academia, defence, government, non-government organisations, and think-tanks.

UK warns of increased attacks from Russian, Iranian hackers
2023-01-26 17:19

The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre has issued a warning of Russian and Iranian state-sponsored hackers increasingly targeting organizations and individuals. More specifically, the country's cybersecurity agency has identified a spike in spear-phishing attacks attributed to threat actors tracked as SEABORGIUM and TA453.

Fake OnlyFans dating sites abuse UK Environment Agency open redirect
2023-01-09 16:31

Threat actors abused an open redirect on the official website of the United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs to direct visitors to fake OnlyFans adult dating sites. As part of this malicious campaign, threat actors abused an open redirect at that looked like a legitimate U.K. government link but redirected visitors to the fake OnlyFans dating site.

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UK's Guardian newspaper breaks news of ransomware attack on itself
2022-12-21 15:40

UK broadsheet media outlet The Guardian has become the victim of a ransomware attack which seems to have take out a large chunk of office-based systems. Journalists at the center-left newspaper have continued to work from home and publish on its website, but according to the publication's own output, it has been hit by "a serious IT incident, which is believed to be a ransomware attack."

UK arrests five for selling 'dodgy' point of sale software
2022-12-12 02:58

Tax authorities from Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA have conducted a joint probe into "Electronic sales suppression software" - applications that falsify point of sale data to help merchants avoid paying tax on their true revenue. A Friday announcement [PDF] from the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement, states that the probe "Resulted in the arrest of five individuals in the United Kingdom who allegedly designed and sold electronic sales suppression systems internationally."

Italy, Japan, UK to jointly launch sixth-gen fighter jet by 2035
2022-12-09 17:35

The United Kingdom, Japan and Italy will pool resources to build a sixth-generation warplane scheduled to be ready for deployment by 2035, with capabilities understood to include AI to rival never-before-seen tech on fighter jets built by China and Russia, although this wasn't stated explicitly. The "Sharing the costs" bit will be important to the UK, which hasn't built a fighter jet alone for quite some time.

UK lawmakers look to enforce blocking tools for legal but harmful content
2022-12-09 13:30

The UK government is putting forward changes to the law which would require social media platforms to give users the option to avoid seeing and engaging with harmful - but legal - content. Presenting the amended Online Safety Bill to Parliament this week, Michelle Donelan, the minister for digital, culture, media and sport pledged to create a "Third shield" to protect users from harmful content.

UK bans Chinese CCTV cameras on 'sensitive' government sites
2022-11-25 00:30

The United Kingdom has decided Chinese video cameras have no place in government facilities. Government departments have also been "Advised that no such equipment should be connected to departmental core networks" and told to consider whether they should remove and replace Chinese video cameras "Deployed on sensitive sites" - and do so before planned upgrades.