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In April 2023, Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth was hit by a cyberattack that possibly resulted in data of hundreds of its clients and dozens of government agencies being compromised. The attack was claimed by the Russian-linked ALPHV/Blackcat ransomwa… Continue reading Law firms under cyberattack
“We paid the crooks to keep things under control and make a bad thing better”… isn’t a valid excuse. Who knew? Continue reading Paying ransomware crooks won’t reduce your legal risk, warns regulator
In 2021, threat actors aggressively exploited newly disclosed critical software vulnerabilities to hit a broad set of targets worldwide, says the latest advisory published by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Most exploited vulne… Continue reading The 15 most exploited vulnerabilities in 2021
This Thursday morning, Russia started its invasion on Ukraine and, As predicted, the attacks in the physical world have been preceded and accompanied by cyber attacks: Renewed DDoS attacks have been launched against websites Ukrainian government agenci… Continue reading Cyber attacks on Ukraine: DDoS, new data wiper, cloned websites, and Cyclops Blink
A long-running hacking group associated with Russian intelligence has developed a new set of tools to replace malware that was disrupted in 2018, according to an alert Wednesday from the U.S. and U.K. cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies. The advanced persistent threat group, known primarily as Sandworm, is now using a “large-scale modular malware framework” that the agencies call Cyclops Blink. Western governments have blamed Sandworm for major incidents such as the disruption of Ukraine’s electricity grid in 2015, the the NotPetya attacks in 2017 and breaches of the Winter Olympics in 2018. Cyclops Blink has largely replaced the VPNFilter malware in Sandworm’s activities since at least June 2019, said the joint alert from the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency and FBI in the U.S. The NCSC also issued a separate analysis paper on Cyclops Blink. […]
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U.K’s National Cyber Security Centre has just released its 2021 annual report which includes some pretty interesting findings from what appears to be a pretty modern and relevant fraud report infrastructure in the U.K where users can report cyber fraud… Continue reading U.K’s National Cyber Security Centre Releases Its Annual Report – An Analysis
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday quickly approaching, the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging small online shops to protect their customers from card skimming cyber criminals. As part of NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence programme, the organ… Continue reading Small businesses urged to protect their customers from card skimming
Viasat announced a next-generation encryption storage solution, the data-at-rest cryptography solid state drive (DARC-SSD), as the latest addition to Viasat’s hardware encryption family, providing secure data protection for government and defence… Continue reading Viasat launches data-at-rest encryption storage device for government and defence agencies
CREST has launched the first of four new practical penetration testing certifications that are designed to be delivered via selected Pearson Vue centres around the world. The new CREST Registered Security Analyst (CRSA) certification will provide CREST… Continue reading CREST releases globally available practical penetration testing certification
There are many important factors to consider when choosing a cloud provider for your cloud use cases. For organizations in heavily regulated industries, compliance with relevant regulations is one of the most important things to think about. Whether yo… Continue reading Top 5 NCSC Cloud Security Principles for Compliance