25 October 2026 - 07:34
Category: Ransomware
Castle Howard Discovers Ransomware
Qilin decided Castle Howard's IT systems looked ripe for extortion, cheerfully lifting confidential estate files. Just another Tuesday in IT, then.
Source: HookPhish
The Full Story
Here we go again, as the Qilin syndicate graciously graced the UK's historic Castle Howard estate with an internal network infiltration and uninvited data exfiltration. The grand old estate found its confidential records casually tossed onto a dark web leak site, because basic estate security is apparently too modern a concept. If we ever fancy protecting ourselves from such timeless blunders, we might consider actually defending our internal IT systems before cybercriminals treat our confidential estate archives like an open house.