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M&S hack: DragonForce cyber criminals sent abuse-filled ransom demand to retailer's CEO

The email was reportedly sent to M&S chief executive Stuart Machin from the hacker group DragonForce

Evening Standard

M&S hackers sent abuse and ransom demand directly to chief executive

M&S is predicted to take a £300m hit to profits after the cyberattack in April

The Independent UK

M&S CEO directly targeted by hackers demanding ransom payout

DragonForce ransomware gang sent threatening emails directly to M&S CEO Stuart Machin.

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DragonForce ransomware hacks SimpleHelp RMM tool to attack MSPs

DragonForce group found stealing files and deploying encryptors through known vulnerabilities.

TechRadar

Joey Jordison’s former death metal band Sinsaenum are back, will release new album in tribute to late Slipknot drummer in August

Sinsaenum – also featuring members of Kreator, Mayhem and others – will continue with Jordison’s old drum tech behind the kit

Metal Hammer

All the major cyber attacks in the UK this year: Are they on the rise?

British companies have toppled like dominoes at the hands of cyber criminals. What happened and are these attacks the new norm?

Evening Standard

Marks & Spencer cyberattack: What we know about the data taken and what to do to protect yourself

M&S warned that there could be security risks as a result of stolen data. Here’s what you should do to protect yourself from future scams.

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Co-op crisis deepens as it admits UK customer data stolen in cyberattack - up to 20 million people possibly affected, here's what we know

Hackers claim to have stolen private information on 20 million Co-op shoppers

TechRadar

Co-op admits hackers accessed customer details in cyberattack

Supermarket says the hackers ‘accessed data relating to a significant number of our current and past members’

The Independent UK

Clothing shortages, food waste and millions lost each day: inside the M&S cyber-attack chaos

‘It’s easier to list the things that work than the things that don’t’, said one worker, but customers are impressed with staff resilience and analysts believe the retailer will bounce back

The Guardian - UK

DragonForce ransomware group evolves new cartel business model

Attackers are now able to buy their ransomware and rebrand it, avoiding all the infrastructure logistics that go with it.

TechRadar

“Metal is the only genre that’s open to so many different types of music. That’s why Babymetal is here right now”: How Babymetal smashed the barriers and defied the haters to become Japan’s biggest metal band

The rise of the of the 21st century’s most unexpected metal sensations

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“Prog is the thinking person’s music – maybe that’s why the musicians are so friendly”: Dragonforce’s Herman Li joined Dream Theater’s fan club and never looked back

Guitarist names his favourite track by the American prog metal titans, and some of the bands he discovered through them

Metal Hammer

Watch Dragonforce’s Through The Fire And Flames be played on the harp by someone with faster fingers than you

Harpist extraordinaire Kristan Toczko has also covered tracks by AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden and more

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“Paul Reed Smith wanted to do something, but I had to explain it was my dream as a kid to have an Ibanez signature. Paul said he’d do anything to make it happen”: Herman Li on his switch to PRS – and the perils of shredding on waterslides

Paul Reed Smith wanted to do something but I had to explain it was my dream as a kid to have an Ibanez signature. Paul said he’d do anything to make it happen

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"We've got maybe another 10, 15 years? Playing a Dragonforce set is not easy": Guitar hero Herman Li talks technique, helping popularise power metal and the next generation of shredders

We put your questions to Herman Li on everything from teaming up with Polyphia and Animals As Leaders to video-games, power metal and how long the band can continue

Metal Hammer

“He came up and said, ‘Hey Herman, how’s it going?’ That was a shocker!”: the encounter with a guitar legend that left Dragonforce’s Herman Li speechless

It takes a lot for Herman Li to be starstruck, but one iconic guitar hero managed it

Guitar World

“We’ve always played fast, and that hasn’t changed. But the big thing is finding new notes that instantly fit within that zone”: Herman Li on DragonForce’s new era of maximalist shred, AI in music and the fine art of string bending

These days, amid the fire and the flames of DragonForce’s extreme power metal, you’ll detect a little something extra in Herman Li’s playing: an emphasis on melody and dynamics

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"Wacky avalanches of overripe gorgonzola delivered with the band’s trademark OTT exuberance and virtuosic flair": Dragonforce's Warp Speed Warriors might be more meme than music, but it still delivers the goods

Dragonforce prove they are still guitar heroes through and through

Metal Hammer

Dragonforce's Herman Li: "I'm not in the top thousand guitar players in this world."

Beloved Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li adopts a humble attitude when it comes to his place in the grand pantheon of shredders

Guitar World

“Hi Swifties! Let us know what you think”: DragonForce drop outrageously shreddy Taylor Swift cover

Taken from forthcoming album, Warp Speed Warriors, the extreme power metal band have put their spin on Wildest Dreams, and – shock horror – Herman Li isn’t holding anything back

TechRadar

Ohio lottery hit by serious ransomware attack forcing some system shutdowns

The Ohio Lottery reportedly hit by DragonForce ransomware.

Guitar World

DragonForce’s Herman Li is one of power metal’s most outrageous shredders – put your playing through the fire and flames with this lesson in his videogame-inspired soloing style

Melodically OTT, technically on point even when on the trampoline or underwater, Li is one of shred guitar’s greatest showmen

Metal Hammer

Sabaton took over a Swedish island in the dead of winter and it was as crazy as it sounds

What happened when the world's biggest power metal band invaded a tiny Swedish island?

Guitar World

Watch DragonForce’s Herman Li shred underwater as he goes Through the Fire and the Flames – and a water slide – to end up in a hot-tub

The DragonForce shredder and bassist Alicia Vigil donned masks and snorkels and turned power metal into a water sport during their set at the 70000 Tons of Metal Cruise 2023

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