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Brit charged in US over Scattered Spider cyber attacks

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The United States’ Department of Justice (DoJ) yesterday unsealed criminal charges against five individuals, including a 22 year-old British national named as Tyler Robert Buchanan, over their alleged involvement in the Scattered Spider cyber attacks. During their criminal rampage, the gang used social engineering techniques to game their victims into giving up vital credentials, often…

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MoneyGram customer data breached in attack

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Financial services firm and money transfer specialist MoneyGram has disclosed a breach of customer data arising from a late-September cyber attack on its systems, but has waited over a week to tell customers that they have been affected. The incident first manifested as a network outage on 20 September, before being confirmed as a cyber…

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Cyber companies need a best practice approach to major incidents.

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Cyber security companies have made global headlines recently with a series of significant incidents which caused widespread disruption. The CrowdStrike incident is estimated to have cost Fortune 500 companies as much as $5.4bn, according to Parametrix analysis. The Okta data breach and Ivanti Virtual Private Network (VPN) vulnerabilities raise similar concerns about the impact cyber…

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Number of girls taking GCSE computing grows three years in a row

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The number of girls choosing to take computing at GCSE level is rising steadily, with 2024 seeing the third consecutive year of growth. This year, 21,020 female students across the UK took the GCSE computing exam, a rise from 19,061 in 2023. However, with 74,821 male students also sitting the exam, girls are still heavily…

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Major breaches allegedly caused by unsecured Snowflake accounts

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Significant data breaches at online ticketing platform Ticketmaster and consumer bank Santander appear to be linked to the abuse of unsecured accounts held with cloud data management platform Snowflake, it has emerged over the past few days. The Ticketmaster breach – confirmed on Friday 31 May by parent organisation Live Nation – saw the personal…

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Customers speak out over Okta’s response to latest breach

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Cyber security companies BeyondTrust and Cloudflare have criticised identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta after both became ensnared in yet another cyber attack against the latter’s systems. BeyondTrust said it detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta admin account on 2 October 2023, which used a valid session cookie stolen from Okta. It…

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1Password caught up in Okta support breach

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Credential management software supplier 1Password has disclosed it has been caught up in the same breach of the tech support systems of fellow identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta that impacted BeyondTrust and Cloudflare. 1Password chief technology officer (CTO) Pedro Canahuati said the firm detected suspicious activity on the Okta tenant it uses to…

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MGM faces £100m loss from cyber attack on its casinos

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US leisure and hospitality giant MGM Resorts has confirmed that hackers stole the personal information of an unspecified number of its customer’s following an early September cyber attack that is expected to cost the company $100m. The 11 September cyber attack – perpetrated by the UNC3944 threat group, otherwise known as Scattered Spider, likely as…

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Okta confirms link to cyber attacks on Las Vegas casinos

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David Bradbury, chief information security officer (CISO) at identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta, has confirmed that two cyber attacks targeting Las Vegas casino operators MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment appeared to exploit the company’s technology as an access vector, providing a clue as to how the concurrent cyber attacks began. In a newly…

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