Latvian forestry company still restoring systems weeks after ransomware attack

This collection of security news covers: a financially motivated foreign actor carried out a ransomware attack against Latvia’s state-owned forestry company Latvijas Valsts Mezi (LVM), with systems still being restored weeks later; the U.S. NSA renamed its Office of Computer Network Operations back to Tailored Access Operations (TAO); the European Commission has sued Ireland, Spain, France and the Netherlands for failing to transpose the NIS2 cybersecurity directive on time; Greek citizens filed a lawsuit against surveillance‑tool vendor Intellexa over Predator spyware exposures from 2022; and