M&S had their ransomware incident communicated via internal email - from the account of a staff member who works for TCS.
The way TCS work is you give them accounts on your AD.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr58pqjlnjlo
Marks and Spencer have started partial online shopping again.
For statto nerds, around 7 weeks from containment to partial recovery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gevk2x03go
Co-op say they have largely completed recovery, and have removed the cyber attack banner and statement from their website
https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2025/06/co-op-cyber-attack/
I think they did a great job. They do call it a "highly sophisticated attack", which, frankly.. isn't true and may come out in open court later if the suspects are ever caught.
6 weeks from containment to "near full" recovery, for statto nerds like me who track this stuff.
M&S had their ransomware incident communicated via internal email - from the account of a staff member who works for TCS.
The way TCS work is you give them accounts on your AD.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr58pqjlnjlo
This Daily Mail piece about security leaders thinking work-from-home means they will be crippled is horseshit, I'm not linking it.
They've taken a survey about how security people think their businesses couldn't survive ransomware, and linked it to working from home. WFH isn't the problem: business IT and resilience being built on quicksand is the problem.
Co-op say they have largely completed recovery, and have removed the cyber attack banner and statement from their website
https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2025/06/co-op-cyber-attack/
I think they did a great job. They do call it a "highly sophisticated attack", which, frankly.. isn't true and may come out in open court later if the suspects are ever caught.
6 weeks from containment to "near full" recovery, for statto nerds like me who track this stuff.
Marks & Spencer is holding walk-in in-store recruitment open days to fill vacant roles while its online hiring system remains offline following its ransomware attack in April. https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/mands-stores-staging-walk-in-recruitment-open-days-amid-cyberattack-disruption/705189.article
This Daily Mail piece about security leaders thinking work-from-home means they will be crippled is horseshit, I'm not linking it.
They've taken a survey about how security people think their businesses couldn't survive ransomware, and linked it to working from home. WFH isn't the problem: business IT and resilience being built on quicksand is the problem.
Marks and Spencer's remuneration committee have opted not to dock the CEOs pay as expected and prior reported over the cyber incident, but instead increased it by £2m.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23mz5eg091o
Marks & Spencer is holding walk-in in-store recruitment open days to fill vacant roles while its online hiring system remains offline following its ransomware attack in April. https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/mands-stores-staging-walk-in-recruitment-open-days-amid-cyberattack-disruption/705189.article
While Co-op have restored every customer facing system and internal systems like recruitment and remote working, M&S still don't even have recruitment back.
I'm reliably told they paid the ransom, so they'll be target #1 basically forever with other ransomware groups now due to resiliency woes and willingness to pay.
Marks and Spencer's remuneration committee have opted not to dock the CEOs pay as expected and prior reported over the cyber incident, but instead increased it by £2m.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23mz5eg091o
Seven weeks in, Marks and Spencer still have recruitment closed, online orders stopped and no Palo-Alto GlobalProtect VPN.
While Co-op have restored every customer facing system and internal systems like recruitment and remote working, M&S still don't even have recruitment back.
I'm reliably told they paid the ransom, so they'll be target #1 basically forever with other ransomware groups now due to resiliency woes and willingness to pay.
Insurance Insider say Co-op Group have no cyber insurance policy.
It’s got the insurance industry hard as they think they can ambulance chase other orgs with it.
https://www.insuranceinsider.com/article/2eu3sto6ggpzewrryexog/lines-of-business/cyber/m-s-attacks-could-be-the-key-to-winning-new-cyber-business
Seven weeks in, Marks and Spencer still have recruitment closed, online orders stopped and no Palo-Alto GlobalProtect VPN.
TCS has a security incident running around the M&S breach.
Interestingly the source claims TCS aren't involved in Co-op's IT - which is categorically false, they took over most of it while I worked there, including the helpdesk, and my team (SecOps) after I left.
https://www.ft.com/content/c658645d-289d-49ee-bc1d-241c651516b0
Insurance Insider say Co-op Group have no cyber insurance policy.
It’s got the insurance industry hard as they think they can ambulance chase other orgs with it.
https://www.insuranceinsider.com/article/2eu3sto6ggpzewrryexog/lines-of-business/cyber/m-s-attacks-could-be-the-key-to-winning-new-cyber-business
A Microsoft employee has bypassed the filtering of the words Palestine, Gaza or genocide to email thousands of employees https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/673568/microsoft-palestine-email-block-defeated-employee
The full email https://archive.ph/6SZ6A
My take on this one, specifically limiting terms like Palestine by MS is lame.
Kevin Beaumont