@BushidoToken Threat Intel

  What Happened On 25 August 2026, Manchester Airports Group (MAG), the operator of Manchester Airport, London Stansted Airport, and East Midlands Airport, reported they recently suffered data breach. Personal information belonging to approximately 8.7 million customers was reportedly accessed. The majority of affected records involve email addresses collected via in-airport Wi-Fi sign ups, alongside customer data from car parking, airport lounge, and Fast Track security bookings. According to BBC reports, the cybercriminals behind the attack issued a ransom demand to MAG. MAG said it had to temporarily suspended access to its online "Manage My Booking" service but importantly said that passenger safety, aviation security, and flight operations remained uncompromised and operated normally. On 30 August, the MAG breach was then claimed by an known data extortion group called FulcrumSec, which told BleepingComputer that it stole approximately 86 GB of data.  The FulcrumSec grou...

What Happened In mid-2026, an emerging cybercriminal group known as ExfilSquad launched a high-profile extortion campaign targeting prominent UK organisations across the public sector, education, and law enforcement, as well as other firms worldwide. Unlike traditional ransomware groups, ExfilSquad does not deploy encryptors or destructive malware. Instead, they operate as a pure data extortion group, stealing data and threatening to publish it on their onion-based Data Leak Site (DLS) if a ransom is not paid. Several prominent UK entities have confirmed breaches linked to the group: UK Department for Education (DfE): Approximately 600,000 records stolen from its Help Portal containing parent and staff contact details (names, emails, phone numbers, job titles), plus around 7,000 records from the Turing Portal. Police National Legal Database (PNLD): Stole 1.9 GB of data (around 135,000 records) containing contact information for over 100,000 serving police officers, staff, and crimin...