All news on the topic: 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

Former spy chief Sir David Omand, who was the boss of GCHQ, suggested Moscow was behind the hack of the Electoral Commission that went undiscovered for 14 months

Clop, a Russian-speaking cybercrime gang, are thought to have been responsible for stealing the data of major British companies like BA, Boots, and the BBC through a flaw in the MOVEit software

Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden will issue a 'call to arms' to energy providers when he addresses the annual CyberUK conference in Belfast later