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Breaches

UK Police Legal Database Breach Exposes 100,000+ Officers as ICO and NCA Step In

The Police National Legal Database has confirmed contact details of officers and criminal justice staff were stolen, with the ExfilSquad group claiming 135,000 records and demanding a ransom.

4 min read
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Breaches

Cyber-attack on England's Department for Education exposes 607,000 records

Contact details for individuals and organisations were taken in a breach affecting two government education portals. No bank details were stolen, but the incident lands as UK school and college cyber-attacks hit record frequency.

3 min read
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Ransomware

How the FBI Took Down LockBit by Destroying the One Thing Criminals Can't Easily Replace: Trust

Operation Cronos didn't just seize servers. It turned LockBit's own website against its partners, shattered the group's reputation, and cut ransom attacks in the US by nearly 80 percent.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Two Scattered Spider hackers get 5.5 years each for crippling London's transport network

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers pleaded guilty to the August 2024 attack on Transport for London, which cost the agency £29 million and briefly threatened chaos for 8.4 million passengers.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Five Londoners Charged Over Russian Coms, the Scam-Call Platform Behind 1.8 Million Fake Calls

The UK's National Crime Agency says the platform helped criminals impersonate banks and police, costing an estimated 170,000 victims tens of millions of pounds.

4 min read
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Policy & Regulation

Farage's £5m Crypto Gift Was Flagged to the UK's National Crime Agency Over Money-Laundering Fears

Bankers who processed the payment raised a formal suspicion report. Now the Reform UK leader faces scrutiny from two directions at once.

3 min read
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