This week's top 5: cyberattacks, wind Energy & solar records. August 22, 2026 This week highlights Shell and General Electric's cyberattack, RWE's renewables, Serene Hamsho's interview, ReNew's CO[2] reductions & Octopus' solar records Clop, the Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang notorious for targeting widely used enterprise software rather than individual companies, has claimed its latest scalp. The group says it has pulled data from close to 50 organisations in one coordinated campaign. Energy sector names feature prominently among the victims, with Shell and GE named alongside Philips and Fiserv in what Clop describes as a sweeping breach. According to the group's claims, 89GB of data was taken from Shell and 391GB from GE. Much of the stolen material reportedly includes engineering plans, blueprints and other project documentation, information that carries particular weight for energy companies managing complex infrastructure and asset portfolios. Shell and GE have both confirmed they are investigating the claims. RWE reported financial results for the first six months of 2026 that reflected increased wind generation and portfolio expansion. The German energy company's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation reached €3bn (US$3.3bn), compared with €2.1bn (US$2.3bn) in the corresponding period of 2025. Adjusted net income rose to €1.3bn (US$1.4bn) from €800m (US$880m) year on year. The company added 2.6GW of generation capacity in the 12 months to end June, including wind, solar and battery storage assets. The energy transition requires three key things: money, technology and people with the right knowledge and skills. In recent years, the first two items in that list have been very forthcoming, with huge investments in cutting-edge renewable energy rebalancing the global energy mix. The final point in that trifecta, however, has always been a little trickier to come by. As things stand, the demand for workers with green skills is outstripping supply by a significant margin. Offshore wind is an area of the energy sector in particular need of more recruitment right now. ReNew, India's second-largest renewable energy company, has had quite the year. The firm has just reported impressive results for the 2025/26 financial year in emissions reductions, renewable output and overall performance. In the past 12 months, ReNew has slashed its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 25.6% from a 2021 baseline, which is comfortably beyond its original target of 23.5%. In that same period, ReNew also generated 24.7 billion units of clean electricity which is enough to power more than 21 million homes. All in, the company has managed to prevent nearly 20.8 million tonnes of CO[2] equivalent from entering the atmosphere. It's been a summer to remember for the UK. This is the first year since records began that temperatures above 35°C have been reached in three separate months and the sheer consistency of the sunshine will likely make this the hottest British summer ever, according to the Met Office. The unusually warm weather has created problems in the UK, but it has also led an unprecedented boom in solar power generation, particularly for domestic set-ups. The performance of the UK's solar fleet has been so good, in fact, that Octopus Energy, the UK's premier energy provider, has paid around £100m (US$135m) to the owners of solar panels across the country in exchange for their clean energy. Executives. * Anup Kumar Chief Executive Officer * Greg Jackson Founder and CEO * Markus Krebber CEO * Rebecca Dibb-Simkin CMPO (Chief Product and Marketing Officer) * Serene Hamsho President & Founder * Vaishali Nigam Sinha Co Founder and Chairperson Sustainability Company portals.

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Multiple organisations investigating fresh wave of Cl0p breaches. Multinational giants such as Philips and Shell may have been affected after the Cl0p cyber extortion gang hacked a popular piece of PLM software. Published: 17 Aug 2026 19:04 A series of prominent organisations including UK fossil fuel giant Shell, Dutch consumer and health tech multinational Philips, and the US' General Electric (GE), are probing security breaches after being 'named and shamed' by the Cl0p/Clop cyber extortion gang. Cl0p, which has a long history of targeting blue chip firms by compromising commonly used enterprise platforms, named all three organisations among close to 50 others in an update to its dark web leak site. All of the victims appear to have been compromised via a critical zero-day flaw in PTC's Windchill PDMLink and FlexPLM product lifecycle management software packages, tracked as CVE-2026-12569. Identified and patched in June and added to Cisa's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (Kev) catalogue shortly thereafter, the flaw becomes exploitable by chaining a pre-authentication information disclosure issue in the FlexPLM WSDL endpoint with a server-side issue in Windchill's login servlet. Ultimately, according to members of the Ransom-ISAC anti-ransomware community, these conditions enabled the threat actors to deploy webshells, achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), and exfiltrate their victims' data. Ransom-ISAC's Brandon Parsons wrote that Cl0p's campaign seems to have begun on or around 20 July, when the gang starting emailing multiple users at the affected organisations from randomly compromised accounts. Parsons observed: "This extortion approach is consistent with what we observed with the Oracle EBS campaign last year, except for the use of new email addresses." In statements shared with the media, Shell, Philips and GE all confirmed they were in the process of investigating the claims, but none of them named the Cl0p operation specifically. Shell told Reuters it was "working with security teams and relevant experts" on its investigation, while GE said it had "initiated its cyber response protocols and are working to assess the potential issue". A spokesperson for Philips went further, saying: "Philips has identified and contained an attempted cyber security compromise of a specific enterprise server related to internal data." According to Cl0p's unverified claims, the gang has stolen 89GB of data from Shell, 15.5GB from Philips, and 391GB from GE. In Shell's case this information allegedly includes engineering drawings, photos of oil facilities, scans of test projects and other project plans. Cl0p's tactics work. As Ransom-ISAC's analysts observed, Cl0p's activity in this latest wave of breaches strongly echoes previous campaigns conducted by the gang, targeting the likes of Acellion, Oracle, and perhaps most famously Progress Software. Three years on from its infamous attack on Progress' MOVEit file transfer tool, which hit thousands of companies, Cl0p still cleaves to its simple and highly effective 'business' model, foregoing traditional encryption ransomware in favour of compromising widely-used software products to target multiple downstream customers, stealing their data, and exposing it if not paid. CybaVerse chief technology officer (CTO) Simon Phillips said the developing incident had the potential to be another huge data breach along the lines of Cl0p's previous attacks. "Given Cl0p's reputation of launching mass attacks, all organisations showing on the leak site must take steps to investigate these claims. They must monitor for unauthorised access and identify if any data has been exfiltrated from their systems," he said. "Furthermore, any organisation using either PTC Windchill PDMlink or PTC FlexPLM should apply the patches as a priority." Phillips added: "[A] key question this raises is around vulnerabilities in software, and customer organisations continuing to face the financial repercussions when they are exploited by attackers. "As an industry, we need to rethink how we evaluate security and vendors, looking beyond individual vulnerabilities and identifying broader trends. Vendors with recurring vulnerabilities in critical components, such as those found in internet-facing infrastructure, should be flagged as high-risk." * AI is accelerating cyber attacks by criminals and hostile states, with attackers faster, more persistent and increasingly collaborative, say experts speaking at Infosecurity Europe 2026. * Computer Weekly reveals for the first time how French cyber spies hacked EncroChat phones used by organised crime groups. * Authorised payment fraud has moved way beyond being a consumer protection issue, says the Royal United Services Institute.