Daily Cyber News: London cloud outage disrupts banks, courts and health services

A power event in Google Cloud’s London region interrupted banking, court video links, business websites and some healthcare appointment access. The incident began in the europe-west2-b zone and affected services including Cloud Run, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine and Filestore. Revolut linked temporary disruption across its app to the cloud outage and later said its services had been restored.

Key context: The outage turned one infrastructure failure into visible disruption across several unrelated sectors.

Additional detail: The practical next step is to test cross-zone and cross-region failover for essential services, then document manual operating paths for payments, hearings and customer support.

For more cybersecurity news and the full Daily Cyber newsletter, visit DailyCyber.News.
Cybersecurity training, courses, books, and resources: BareMetalCyber.com.

Topics: cybersecurity news, cybersecurity, cyber risk, data breach, London, cloud, outage, disrupts, banks, courts.

Daily Cyber News: NetScaler intrusions steal keys and build durable internal access

An investigated NetScaler compromise reached root access and installed several layers of persistence. Attackers used web shells, boot hooks, scheduled tasks, outbound command channels, and internal tunnels designed to survive reboots. From the appliance, they mapped D N S, directory, management, and VMware vCenter infrastructure.

Key context: For leaders, the concern is that an application delivery appliance can become a bridge into identity, management, and virtualization systems.

Additional detail: Follow current vendor remediation, but pair it with a full compromise assessment for persistence, data theft, internal tunneling, and access to connected systems.

For more cybersecurity news and the full Daily Cyber newsletter, visit DailyCyber.News.
Cybersecurity training, courses, books, and resources: BareMetalCyber.com.

Topics: cybersecurity news, cybersecurity, cyber risk, NetScaler, intrusions, steal, keys, build, durable, internal.

Daily Cyber News: WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math compromised to backdoor websites

Some Rank Math PRO downloads from the vendor’s official website contained malware during an 11-hour window. Sites that installed and activated the affected version could receive persistent backdoors that reappeared when someone visited the infected website. The vendor removed the compromised files and released clean version 3.0.124.

Key context: For leaders, a compromised website can expose database credentials, A P I keys, cloud credentials, and other secrets available to the web server.

Additional detail: Treat every site that activated Rank Math PRO 3.0.123 during the reported window as compromised.

For more cybersecurity news and the full Daily Cyber newsletter, visit DailyCyber.News.
Cybersecurity training, courses, books, and resources: BareMetalCyber.com.

Topics: cybersecurity news, cybersecurity, cyber risk, malware, WordPress SEO, Rank Math, WordPress, plugin, Rank, Math.