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The parents of a child injured in the Southport attack have said they are “devastated” after court files were accessed without authorisation.

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An investigation is under way after a data breach involving court files relating to victims, survivors and families of the Southport attack, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said.

Microsoftdescribes this attack, which has been observed since May 2026, as one that starts with identity-focused social engineering. “The threat actors call or message a user’s personal phone number, while claiming to be from the organization’s IT help desk and urging them to immediately update their passkey, multi-factor authentication (MFA), or single sign-on (SSO) configuration…

Target i2i-systems Domain i2i-systems.com Country Turkey Attacking Group Barracuda Date Reported September 13, 2026

Anthropic has said it has detected and disrupted a Russian cyber-espionage campaign targeting Ukrainian government, military and diplomatic organisations. The attackers used Claude models at almost every stage of the attacks and automated parts of the process.

Target EllisDon Corporation Domain ellisdon.com Country Canada Attacking Group MetaEncryptor Date Reported September 7, 2026

The UK’s National Air Traffic Services (NATS) has confirmed that a cyberattack was not behind the widespread flight disruptions across British airports, impacting thousands of passengers and international flights, including those to India.

Ransomware attack reaches Victorian business through external technology provider | Insurance Business

Two separate ransomware groups have added Interim HealthCare, a home health and hospice provider operating in roughly 40 U.S. states, to their dark-web leak sites within weeks of each other, according to a September 9, 2026 report from The HIPAA Journal. The claims mark one of the more unusual ransomware disclosures of the year: rather…