Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a spear-phishing campaign likely undertaken by the Pakistan-aligned SideCopy group targeting Afghanistan’s Ministry of Finance with an open-source remote access trojan called Xeno RAT.…
Rises for trainees too BCLP has confirmed that its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers in London are now earning £125,000, following a pay rise at the start of the year. The…
‘Insufficiently severe’ The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has appealed the sanction given to an experienced solicitor who bullied and harassed five junior female colleagues. Legal Cheek reported last week that…
Discussion-based, low-stress simulations during which IT, legal, and other key leadership stakeholders walk through theoretical scenarios to test their preparedness for cyber incidents is a popular and highly useful tool.…
Password manager Dashlane has disclosed that “fewer than” 20 users on the personal subscription plan had their encrypted vaults downloaded following a brute-force attack launched by an unknown party. On…
A judge has partially struck out a defence lodged by class action specialist Pogust Goodhead in a battle over £3.1m in fees which litigation boutique Seladore Legal says it is…
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has reprimanded a duty solicitor for backdating documents – but ordered the SRA to pay him costs after he was cleared of dishonesty. The post SRA…
London law firm Forsters failed to validly serve a claim form for a claim valued at around £82m, the High Court has ruled. The post Law firm failed to validly…
The European security agency’s entry to Project Glasswing is the result of “strong bilateral cooperation” between the European Commission and Anthropic. – Read More
After a disgruntled security researcher published several zero-day exploits in recent weeks, Microsoft seemingly indicated criminal charges were in order. – Read More
Oracle has released the first security fixes in its new monthly Critical Security Patch Update (CSPU) cycle, designed to address urgent vulnerabilities that can’t wait for the company’s quarterly patching.…
A new Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack campaign, codenamed Miasma, has compromised @redhat-cloud-services packages to steal credentials and secrets from developer machines and deliver a self-propagating worm. “This is effectively…
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after…
Exploiting the PAN-OS GlobalProtect VPN vulnerability requires certain conditions, but adversaries have done so in two attack waves that started in mid-May. – Read More
Our latest Orange Rag industry expert is Patrick Hurley, global lead for applications management solutions at Harbor, based in London. Hurley says that the question for law firms now, more…