All news on the topic: Cyber attacks

Russian hackers have repeatedly targeted top German politicians, diplomats and military officers by trying to hack into their messaging app Signal through “phishing” attacks, top officials have said.

Almost 800 Hungarian government email addresses and associated passwords are circulating online, revealing basic vulnerabilities in the security protocols of ministries involved in classified and sensitive work.

Iran has launched a series of cyber attacks against the US hours after Donald Trump threatened to wipe out the country’s civilization.

Several official Syrian government accounts on the social media platform X were briefly compromised, the country’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology announced on Tuesday, sparking concerns about the security of state digital infrastructure during a period of heightened regional tensions.

Defence Secretary John Healey has said he would not trust Nigel Farage with Britain’s national security after the Reform UK leader said he would vote against plans to deploy British troops to Ukraine alongside France in the event of a peace deal.

The former head of MI5 has warned that we may be ’already at war with Russia’ as Vladimir Putin launched a brutal 12-hour bombardment of Kyiv.

Britain is already under daily cyberattack, and the next casualty may not be a hacked network or paralysed business but ordinary people, a leading security expert has warned.

The Co-op supermarket has been hit by a cyber attack, days after hackers caused chaos at Marks and Spencer.

Chinese hackers have accessed US documents in a ‘major cybersecurity incident’.

The FBI has warned people not to send text messages between Apple and Android phones amid massive and ongoing cyber attacks

It’s been an eventful travel day already – and now there is more drama after a horse escaped onto the M20 while TfL gave an update on the cyber attack.

A university student who created malware targeting government websites while living with his parents has been jailed for 21 months.

Users of online services are being urged to check their passwords after nearly 10 billion codes are leaked.

NHS England has confirmed its patient data managed by blood test management organisation Synnovis was stolen in a ransomware attack on 3 June.

Sensitive data from the EU’s police agency appeared for sale on a cybercrime forum.

China poses a genuine and increasing cyber risk to the United Kingdom, the head of British spy agency GCHQ said on Tuesday, adding that while Russia and Iran represented an immediate threat, Beijing was an epoch-defining challenge.

State involvement cannot be ruled out in a hack of an armed forces payroll system, the defence secretary has said.

Investigation finds hacker group linked to Russian intelligence responsible for attacks targeting politicians and defence sector

Traditional bank robbery is now 'dying out' as professional cyber criminals carry out increasingly organised and lucrative raids, according to the head of Interpol

Campaigners called for a shake-up of the Computer Misuse Act, warning it was hampering the fight against cyber attacks while costing billions of pounds and thousands of jobs

A major Russian cyber crime gang is facing international sanctions from both the US and UK for their hacking activities, which included infiltrating a hospital system during the Covid-19 pandemic