Microsoft Azure successfully repelled one of the most devastating distributed denial-of-service attacks in cloud computing history on October 24, 2025. The assault, which peaked at an unprecedented 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), targeted a single endpoint in Australia and demonstrated both the escalating sophistication of modern cyber threats and the resilience of enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure….
Synnovis, a leading UK pathology services provider, is notifying healthcare providers that a data breach occurred following a ransomware attack in June 2024, which resulted in the theft of some patients’ data. Synnovis is now reaching out to affected organizations, including NHS hospitals and clinics, but will not contact patients directly. Patient notifications will be handled…
SonicWall recently disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed firewall configuration backup files for all customers who have used the cloud backup service. “The files contain encrypted credentials and configuration data; while encryption remains in place, possession of these files could increase the risk of targeted attacks,” the company reported. It also noted that it’s working…
Crimson Collective, cyber criminal gang claims to have stolen nearly 570GB of compressed data across 28,000 internal development respositories, with the company confirming it was a breach of one of its GitLab instances. This data allegedly includes approximately 800 Customer Engagement Reports (CERs), which can contain sensitive information about a customer’s network and platforms. Red…
Columbia University has been targeted in a cyberattack where hackers stole the personal information of students, applicants, and employees. The Ivy League school suffered an IT outage on June 24 and on July 1 it revealed that it was caused by hackers who may have stolen data from its network. In an update shared on August 5, Columbia University…
Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group. In June, Google warned that a threat actor they classify as ‘UNC6040′ is targeting companies’ employees in voice phishing (vishing) social engineering attacks to breach Salesforce instances and download customer data….
KLM Airlines (aka KLM Royal Dutch Airlines), a French-Dutch multinational airline, has notified customers about a recent data breach that exposed certain personal details after a third-party system the company relies on was accessed by an unauthorised party. The breach did not affect core systems or more sensitive data, but it still involves information that…
Qantas has suffered a major cyber-attack, potentially exposing the records of up to 6 million customers. The airline said on Wednesday that the affected system had now been contained and its systems were secured. The system in question was a third-party platform used by the airline’s contact centre, which contains the records of 6 million…
Data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) has confirmed a data breach that compromised the personal information of over 364,000 people. LexisNexis operates in 40 countries, has customers worldwide, and employs over 11,500 people. The subsidiary of the British data analytics conglomerate RELX works with 91% of Fortune 100 companies and 85% of Fortune 500 companies,…
Cybercrime is predicted to cost the world $10.5 trillion USD in 2025, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime would be the world’s third largest economy after the U.S. and China. This represents the greatest transfer of economic wealth in history, risks the incentives for innovation and investment, is exponentially…
