The Moscow Times reports: A wave of coordinated cyberattacks has paralyzed the digital systems of several major Russian restaurant chains and food service providers, the Vedomosti business daily reported. The attacks, which began on July 18, targeted networks run by automation provider iiko and its hosting partner ESTT. Restaurant chains including McDonald’s successor Vkusno i Tochka, coffee chain…
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France Travail: At least 340,000 job seekers victims of new hack
The following is a machine translation of an article that originally appeared in French by Sylvain Trinel: The public body that manages employment in France, as well as training and unemployment benefits, has been the victim of a “malicious act,” the third in less than two years. This is a new blow for France Travail…
Suspected XSS Forum Admin Arrested in Ukraine
Kevin Poireault reports: A man suspected of administering the Russian-language cybercrime forum XSS was arrested in Ukraine on July 22. In an official statement on July 23, Laure Beccuau, a French State Prosecutor, said that the individual was taken into custody by the Ukrainian authorities, with the collaboration of the French police and Europol. This…
PowerSchool commits to strengthened breach measures following engagement with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
July 22, 2025 – Gatineau, Quebec PowerSchool has committed to take steps to ensure that the education technology software company’s security measures are appropriately strengthened following a cyberattack that impacted millions of Canadian students, parents, and educators. The commitments follow an engagement with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to ensure that PowerSchool was…
Hungarian police arrest suspect in cyberattacks on independent media
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Hungarian police have arrested a man suspected of carrying out a prolonged series of cyberattacks against independent media outlets in Hungary and abroad, authorities said on Monday. The 23-year-old suspect from Budapest is accused of launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that disrupted access to at least half a dozen Hungarian news sites beginning in…
British institutions to be banned from paying ransoms to Russian hackers
Mason Boycott-Owen reports: Hospitals, local councils and operators of critical U.K. infrastructure are among the organizations who will be banned from paying ransoms to hackers under new plans unveiled by the British government. The move — which will cover all public sector bodies as well as the owners and operators of critical national infrastructure —…