US President Donald Trump has issued a new cybersecurity-related Executive Order that supersedes or revises previous orders issued by Barack Obama in April 2015 (EO 13694) and Joe Biden in January 2021 (EO 14144). Notably, the new order limits the application of cyber sanctions only to foreign malicious actors, reversing broader authorities under the previous […]
Fashion brand The North Face and luxury jeweller Cartier have become the latest retailers to report having customer data stolen in cyber attacks. North Face has emailed some customers saying it discovered a “small-scale” attack in April this year. Cartier said “an unauthorized party gained temporary access to our system”. Both brands say data such […]
Ohio-based Victoria’s Secret on May 29 said it was hit by a cyberattack and took down its website as well as some in-store services as a precaution. In a note sent to the retailer’s employees and reported in Bloomberg News, Victoria’s Secret Chief Executive Officer Hillary Super said that “recovery is going to take a […]
NHS trusts had information stolen in the latest cyberattack on the UK health service, experts have told Sky News, with concerns raised that patient data might be vulnerable in such incidents. University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust have been named as those exposed via a recently discovered […]
The Russia-aligned threat actor known as TAG-110 has been observed conducting a spear-phishing campaign targeting Tajikistan using macro-enabled Word templates as an initial payload. The attack chain is a departure from the threat actor’s previously documented use of an HTML Application (.HTA) loader dubbed HATVIBE, Recorded Future’s Insikt Group said in an analysis. “Given TAG-110’s […]
Russian cyber threat actors have been attributed to a state-sponsored campaign targeting Western logistics entities and technology companies since 2022. The activity has been assessed to be orchestrated by APT28 (aka BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, or Forest Blizzard), which is linked to the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center, Military Unit 26165. […]
The U.S. for years has struggled to provide rapid cybersecurity support to international allies before, during and after cyberattacks. The Biden administration created a cyber aid program that includes a rapid-response fund, but upgrading the entire foreign-aid bureaucracy to match the speed of cyber incidents has been a challenge. The Trump administration’s pause in foreign assistance, which affected multiple […]
A critical security vulnerability in ChatGPT has been discovered that allows attackers to embed malicious SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and image files directly into shared conversations, potentially exposing users to sophisticated phishing attacks and harmful content. The flaw, recently documented as CVE-2025-43714, affects the ChatGPT system through March 30, 2025. Security researchers identified that instead […]
A new wave of cyber attacks against British companies is a “critical national security threat”, an analyst has told Sky News. It follows the exposure of a previously unknown vulnerability in software used by hundreds of companies. But unlike the recent attacks against M&S, Co-op and Harrods, the latest incident was not ransomware but rather […]
The Spanish government is gathering information on the cybersecurity measures of the country’s small electricity generating companies to assess whether malicious actors exploited them to take down the country’s electricity grid, according to Financial Times. The Spanish government has yet to determine the specific causes of the blackout that left the country without power for […]