Author: HackWatchit
Luxury retailer Harrods confirms a cyber attack attempt, restricting internet access but keeping its online store running. Learn about the growing wave of cyber threats also impacting M&S and Co-op. Following disruptions at British retail giants Marks & Spencer and Co-op, the esteemed department store Harrods also, reportedly, has been targeted by malicious threat actors attempting to infiltrate their online infrastructure. This incident, occurring just this week, prompted Harrods to implement protective measures, including restricting internet access across their physical locations. It’s worth noting that while Harrods confirmed the cyber attack attempt and the resulting restrictions on internet access at…
Opsera announced new Advanced Security Dashboard capabilities that, available as an extension of Opsera’s Unified Insights for GitHub Copilot, help enterprises maximize the benefits of GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS). Opsera now connects and provides a comprehensive view of security alongside software development performance, enabling the monitoring of vulnerabilities, tracking of remediation, and fostering a stronger security culture across development teams, all without slowing down software delivery. “Our Advanced Security Dashboard complements our existing GitHub solutions where security and software delivery intersect,” said Kumar Chivukula, CEO, Opsera. “By correlating security posture with delivery metrics like DORA and cycle time, enterprises can…
Hurricane Helene devastated towns across the south in September, causing record rainfall and triggering historic flooding. Seven months later, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is still on the ground leading the clean-up effort in western North Carolina – one of those towns being Lake Lure. A waterpark in the town, which would normally be busy prepping for its peak season, currently has no running water to fill pools or operate watersides as water has been cut off, so that debris can be removed. Read the rest of the story at FOX News.
Jordan Drysdale// This is basically a slight update and rip off of Marcello’s work out here: https://byt3bl33d3r.github.io/practical-guide-to-ntlm-relaying-in-2017-aka-getting-a-foothold-in-under-5-minutes.html /tl;dr – Zero to DA on an environment through an exposed Outlook Web App (OWA) and a single factor VPN. An overview of the techniques is chopped from further down, and the attack summary, exists twice in this document: Identify network systems that do not require SMB message validation Configure Impacket’s NTLMrelayx to target those systems Disable SMB and HTTP request/response poisoning in Responder and launch Wait for creds We are approaching the topic of NTLM relay via “SMB authentication poisoned reflection” with…
India, now officially the most populous country in the world after surpassing China, is taking a significant step to safeguard its citizens from the growing threats of financial fraud and cyber scams. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian government has ordered the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to implement a crucial new policy aimed at bolstering the country’s digital security. This policy mandates that all banks operating within India must transition their online presence to a new, more secure domain—“.bank.in.” In a parallel move, the government is also encouraging the wider financial sector to adopt a…
Ireland’s DPC fined TikTok €530M for sending EU user data to China Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2025 Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined TikTok €530M for violating data rules by sending European user data to China. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined the popular video-sharing platform TikTok €530 million for violating data laws by transferring data belonging to European users to China. TikTok violated GDPR by transferring EEA user data to China and lacking transparency. TikTok was given 6 months to comply with data rules, or face suspension of data transfers to China. “The decision, which was made by the…
you should read this As someone who did a Bachelors in Mathematics I was first introduced to L¹ and L² as a measure of Distance… now it seems to be a measure of error — where have we gone wrong? But jokes aside, there seems to be this misconception that L₁ and L₂ serve the same function — and while that may sometimes be true — each norm shapes its models in drastically different ways. In this article we’ll travel from plain-old points on a line all the way to L∞, stopping to see why L¹ and L² matter, how they differ, and where the L∞ norm…
F6 Threat Intelligence has disclosed that it tracked the activities of the Hive0117 group, which conducted a large-scale phishing campaign targeting Russian companies. The attack focused on various industries, including media, tourism, finance and insurance, manufacturing, retail, energy, telecommunications, transport, and biotechnology. “Hive0117 is a financially motivated group that has been conducting attacks since February 2022 using VPO DarkWatchman,” F6 wrote in a post this week. “Mailings are mass. Attackers disguise themselves as real organizations, register the infrastructure for mailings and managing domains, often reuse domains. The goals were identified in Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan.” F6 is a Russian…
The Co-op cyberattack is far worse than initially reported, with the company now confirming that data was stolen for a significant number of current and past customers. “As a result of ongoing forensic investigations, we now know that the hackers were able to access and extract data from one of our systems,” Co-op told BleepingComputer. “The accessed data included information relating to a significant number of our current and past members.” “This data includes Co-op Group members’ personal data such as names and contact details, and did not include members’ passwords, bank or credit card details, transactions or information relating…