A study by Oxford University has found that 98% of care homes closed by the Care Quality Commission between 2011 and 2023 for endangering children or vulnerable adults were profit-making private companies. The research also found over 90% of children’s homes closed by Ofsted between 2014 and 2023 were run for profit. The study demonstrated that regulatory measures were more likely to be employed on for-profit providers in both adult and children’s social care.

Outlaw Group Uses SSH Brute-Force to Deploy Cryptojacking Malware on Linux Servers
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details about Outlaw, an “auto-propagating” cryptocurrency mining botnet that targets SSH servers with weak credentials. The Romanian-origin malware performs SSH brute-force