23 Jul 2025
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 7/23/2025

158-year-old company forced to close after ransomware attack precipitated by a single guessed password A UK-based transportation company with a venerable 158-year history has collapsed in the wake of a ransomware attack. Around 500 Northamptonshire-based Knights of Old (KNP) trucks are now off the road, and 700 people have lost their jobs, due to money-grasping cyberattackers, named as ‘Akira’ in a BBC report. The internet-connected criminals are said to have gained access to KNP’s internet…
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05 Feb 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 2/5/2024

FBI removes malware from hundreds of routers across the US The FBI has used a court order to remove malware from hundreds of routers across the US, and alter the routers’ settings to prevent reinfection. The routers are malware-infected NetGear and Cisco small office/home office (SOHO) devices that no longer receive updates because they have reached their End-of-Life. The FBI did this because it believed the threat actor behind the botnet of routers is an…
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20 Sep 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 09/20/2023

Threat Actor Claims Major TransUnion Data Breach  A notorious threat actor linked to previous big-name breaches has released several gigabytes of personal data stolen from credit agency TransUnion, researchers have claimed. An individual who goes by the moniker “USDoD” posted a 3GB database containing the personally identifiable information (PII) of 58,505 individuals, according to Vx-underground. Although there’s no information on whether those are customers or employees, given the size of the company, at least some of the…
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