X-Industry

Activity Summary - Week Ending on 2 December 2022:

• Red Sky Alliance identified 30,052 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
• Microsoft in Singapore hit 111x
• Nivdort Malware Variant moves up in Collections
• Analysts identified 1,256 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
• Tridas eWriter
• Remcos
• NY Suffolk County Hit
• German Festo and CODESYS
• Guadeloupe
• UK Cyber Regulation

Link to full report: IR-22-336-001_weekly336.pdf

A cyber-attack on Britain’s NHS systems detected nearly two months ago is still "compromising" the quality of care trusts can provide, a health boss said.  Software used for check-ins, notes and the NHS 111 service was affected by the ransomware attack found on 4 August 2022.  The chief executive of Oxford Health Foundation Trust (OH) said it has done all it can to maintain services despite the disruption.  Software provider Advanced said disruption could continue for weeks.  The OH said it init

It has been over two years since the UK’s data protection watchdog warned the behavioral advertising industry that it is ‘totally out of control.’  The UK’s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) reportedly has not taken any action to stop the systematic unlawfulness of the tracking and targeting industry abusing Internet users’ personal data to try to manipulate their attention.  That is not in terms of enforcing the law against offenders and stopping what digital rights campaigners have descr

Financial services firms in the UK were hit hard in 2020, with 70% experiencing a successful cyber-attack and most of these blaming COVID-related conditions for the incident, according to Keeper Security.  The password security firm commissioned the Ponemon Institute to poll over 370 UK IT security leaders in the sector, as part of a larger global study.  It revealed that the rapid shift to remote working forced on businesses during the pandemic provided threat actors with an opportunity to targ