CyberSecurityBoard
Sponsor Register Login

Britain says no evidence of Sellafield nuclear site hacking

LONDON, Dec 4 - Britain has no records or evidence to suggest that networks at the Sellafield nuclear site were the victim of a successful cyber attack by state actors, the government said on Monday following a report by the Guardian newspaper.
The Guardian reported that Sellafield, which carries out nuclear fuel reprocessing, nuclear waste storage and decommissioning, had been hacked by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China.
Sellafield, controlled by the government's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, is located in northwest England and has 11,000 employees.
Advertisement Scroll to continue In a separate statement, Britain's Office for Nuclear Regulation also said it had seen no evidence that state actors had hacked its systems as the paper had described.


This Cyber News was published on www.reuters.com. Publication date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 01:29:05 +0000


Cyber News related to Britain says no evidence of Sellafield nuclear site hacking

Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China - The UK's most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield, has been hacked into by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China, the Guardian can reveal. Sources said breaches were first detected as far back as 2015, when experts realised sleeper malware - ...
11 months ago Theguardian.com
Britain says no evidence of Sellafield nuclear site hacking - LONDON, Dec 4 - Britain has no records or evidence to suggest that networks at the Sellafield nuclear site were the victim of a successful cyber attack by state actors, the government said on Monday following a report by the Guardian newspaper. The ...
11 months ago Reuters.com
Britain Nuclear site Sellafield experiences malware cyber attack - Reports confirm that Sellafield, a prominent nuclear site, has fallen victim to a recent malware attack, with initial investigations suggesting the infiltration of malicious software dating as far back as 2015. Cybersecurity experts are actively ...
11 months ago Cybersecurity-insiders.com
Encouraging Ethical Hacking Skills in Students - This article delves into the significance of encouraging ethical hacking skills in students and the numerous benefits it offers to individuals and society as a whole. Possessing ethical hacking skills can provide students with a competitive advantage ...
10 months ago Securityzap.com
A Gigantic New ICBM Will Take US Nuclear Missiles Out of the Cold War-Era but Add 21st-Century Risks - Cybersecurity for the software-driven Sentinel nuclear missile has been a top focus of the program. Those underground capsules are about to be demolished and the missile silos they control will be completely overhauled. A new nuclear missile is ...
10 months ago Securityweek.com
Sellafield Accused of Covering Up Major Cyber Breaches - A UK facility containing the world's largest stockpile of civil plutonium has been breached by hackers linked to Russia and China, with attacks traced back as far as 2015, according to a bombshell new report. The Guardian cited various inside sources ...
11 months ago Infosecurity-magazine.com
Hacker leaks millions of new 23andMe genetic data profiles - A hacker has leaked an additional 4.1 million stolen 23andMe genetic data profiles for people in Great Britain and Germany on a hacking forum. Earlier this month, a threat actor leaked the stolen data of 1 million Ashkenazi Jews who used 23andMe ...
11 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com
Hacktivists breach U.S. nuclear research lab, steal employee data - The Idaho National Laboratory confirms they suffered a cyberattack after 'SiegedSec' hacktivists leaked stolen human resources data online. INL is a nuclear research center run by the U.S. Department of Energy that employs 5,700 specialists in atomic ...
11 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com
China's Dogged Campaign to Portray Itself as Victim of US Hacking - For more than two years, China's government has been attempting to portray the US as indulging in the same kind of cyber espionage and intrusion activities as the latter has accused of carrying out over the past several years. A recent examination of ...
8 months ago Darkreading.com
Former Uber CISO Speaks Out, After 6 Years, on Data Breach, SolarWinds - Joe Sullivan arrived at his sentencing hearing on May 4 this year, prepared to go to jail had the judge not gone with a parole board's recommendation of probation. A federal jury convicted the former Uber CISO months earlier on two charges of fraud ...
11 months ago Darkreading.com
Hacker Conversations: Chris Evans, Hacker and CISO - Chris Evans is CISO and chief hacking officer at HackerOne. SecurityWeek's Hacker Conversations series seeks to understand the mind and motivations of hackers by talking to hackers. Evans challenges the common perception of both hackers and their ...
4 months ago Securityweek.com
Idaho National Nuclear Lab Targeted in Major Data Breach - The Idaho National Laboratory, one of the 17 national labs in the US Department of Energy complex, suffered a major data breach on Nov. 19, leaking a host of information, including employee addresses, Social Security numbers, bank account ...
11 months ago Darkreading.com
UK government denies China/Russia nuke plant hack claim The Register - The government of the United Kingdom has issued a strongly worded denial of a report that the Sellafield nuclear complex has been compromised by malware for years. It is not clear if those systems and networks are isolated, per the government ...
11 months ago Go.theregister.com
In Other News: US Ransomware Attacks, 23andMe Blames Victims, Nuclear Waste Hacking Attempt - SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. Each week, we will curate and present a collection of noteworthy developments, ranging from ...
10 months ago Securityweek.com
Syrian Threat Group Peddles Destructive SilverRAT - The group behind a sophisticated remote access Trojan, SilverRAT, has links to both Turkey and Syria and plans to release an updated version of the tool to allow control over compromised Windows systems and Android devices. According to a threat ...
10 months ago Darkreading.com
Rootkit Turns Kubernetes from Orchestration to Subversion - As software development focuses on continuous integration and deployment, orchestration platforms like Kubernetes have taken off, but that popularity has put them in attackers' crosshairs. Most successful attacks - at least those publicly reported - ...
11 months ago Darkreading.com
Experts from the United Nations Report North Korean Hackers Have Taken a Large Amount of Digital Assets - Last year, North Korean hackers working for the government stole a record-breaking amount of virtual assets estimated to be worth between $630 million and more than $1 billion, according to a new report from U.N. experts. The panel of experts said ...
1 year ago Securityweek.com
Dutch Engineer Used Water Pump to Get Billion-Dollar Stuxnet Malware Into Iranian Nuclear Facility: Report - A Dutch engineer recruited by the country's intelligence services used a water pump to deploy the now-infamous Stuxnet malware in an Iranian nuclear facility, according to a two-year investigation conducted by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. Stuxnet, ...
9 months ago Securityweek.com
Dutch hacker jailed for extortion, selling stolen data on RaidForums - A former Dutch cybersecurity professional was sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of hacking and blackmailing more than a dozen companies in the Netherlands and worldwide. The suspect, a 21-year-old man from Zandvoort named ...
11 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com
"Do Not Push To Production" And Other Insecure Code, Demonstrated By An Ethical Hacker - Viewers got to see some interesting vulnerabilities and coding practices that made her demo app pretty open to exploits. A friend of mine published a book about it over 25 years ago, called The Happy Hacker. If you're hacking without permission, no ...
11 months ago Securityboulevard.com
Update your white hat hacking skills with $70 off this training bundle - Ethical hacking is a useful skill set not just for cybersecurity experts, but for every IT worker. The Ultimate 2020 White Hat Hacker Certification Bundle provides 10 detailed courses to get you up to speed on using hacking skills for positive ends. ...
10 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com
Law Firms and Legal Departments Get Singled Out For Cyberattacks - Cyberattackers are doubling down on their attacks against law firms and corporate legal departments, moving beyond their historical activity of hacking and leaking secrets to targeting the sector with financial attacks, such as ransomware and ...
11 months ago Darkreading.com
More than 45,000 affected by cyberattack on Idaho nuclear research lab - The information of more than 45,000 people was leaked because of a cyberattack late last month at a federally run nuclear research lab. The prominent U.S. Department of Energy nuclear research lab, based near Idaho Falls, is known for groundbreaking ...
10 months ago Therecord.media
U.S. nuclear research lab data breach impacts 45,000 people - The Idaho National Laboratory confirmed that attackers stole the personal information of more than 45,000 individuals after breaching its cloud-based Oracle HCM HR management platform last month. INL is one of 17 U.S. Department of Energy's national ...
10 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com
Chinese hacking documents offer glimpse into state surveillance - Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the nation's top policing agency and other parts of its government - a trove that catalogs apparent hacking ...
8 months ago Apnews.com

Latest Cyber News


Cyber Trends (last 7 days)


Trending Cyber News (last 7 days)