"Royal Mail Halts International Deliveries After Cyber-Incident"

The UK’s postal service has recently warned customers of “severe service disruption” for items sent abroad after it suffered an unspecified “cyber-incident.”  The postal service stated that it was temporarily unable to dispatch items to overseas destinations and strongly recommended temporarily holding any export mail items while they work to resolve the issue.  Items that have already been shipped may be subject to delays.  The postal service noted that import operations are suffering only slight delays and that its Parcelforce Worldwide brand is still operating to international destinations, albeit with delays of one to two days.  The postal service immediately launched an investigation into the incident and is working with external experts.  They have also reported the incident to their regulators and the relevant security authorities.  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) acknowledged this in a brief statement of its own.  The NCSC stated that they are aware of an incident affecting Royal Mail Group and are working with the company, alongside the National Crime Agency, to fully understand the impact.  Service disruption of this sort is often tied to ransomware attacks, which force victim organizations to rapidly disconnect IT systems before sensitive files can be stolen and/or scrambled by attackers.  However, there’s currently no indication of what caused the incident.

Infosecurity reports: "Royal Mail Halts International Deliveries After Cyber-Incident"