Data Security & Resilience
Osaka Metropolitan University cancels classes after suspected ransomware attack
Osaka Metropolitan University said on Tuesday that the outage left its internal network, email and a range of administrative and academic systems unavailable.
Ransomware Affiliate Double-Crosses RaaS Operator to Steal Victim Funds
An affiliate of The Gentlemen RaaS group ran a parallel leak site during extortion of two dozen victims
Police Target KillSec Ransomware Group with Arrests and Seizures
Investigators have disrupted the operations of ransomware group KillSec and arrested several key suspects
Emerging Ransomware Gang Uses Backup Destruction Threats to Pressure Victims
Ransom notes by n0n ransomware claim to take double extortion to a new level of danger for victims
Stefan Fercot: pgBackRest and PostgreSQL failover: why archive_mode matters
A recent question on the community channels described a difficult situation: a standby had been promoted with archive_mode=off, and restarting the new primary was something the team wanted to avoid. Could they enable archiving on a downstream standby and take a pgBackRest backup from there instead? Their attempt failed with archive_mode must be enabled, even with archive-mode-check=n. Removing the checks…
Ransomware Attacks Reach Record High for 2026
A total of 1073 firms fell victim to ransomware attacks globally in August, with the industrial sector the most affected, according to new NCC data