Since the beginning of the year, we have seen the threat from cryptomining malware grow exponentially. And in our malware reviews we have consistently referred to it as increasing, month by month. However, we now believe that it is no longer accurate to talk about it as if it were ‘up and coming’, because this […]
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Hundreds of companies in Lithuania were targeted last week by a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) scam, with emails purportedly sent from the State Data Protection Inspectorate (VDAI) warning them that they were falling foul of GDPR regulations on their public websites and were risking fines of up to 4% of their annual revenue. The
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While many industry reports claim that the number of ransomware attacks worldwide has been dropping in favour of the easier and less time-consuming cryptomining operations – and this may well be the case – it is nevertheless true that cyber criminals are continuing to target organisations with ever evolving varieties of malware, and successfully demanding
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Healthcare is one of the sectors most heavily targeted by hackers, as the personal data contained within medical records is particularly extensive and, therefore, lucrative. Cyber security experts have long agreed that one reason explaining the high rate of successful attacks noted in this sphere is that many IT systems are running on old and
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Cryptomining and botnets are in the spotlight this month, with the former continuing its meteoric rise and becoming more sophisticated, and the latter making a comeback. There is significant crossover between the two, as botnets are increasingly being used in cryptocurrency mining operations, alongside their more traditional uses like distributing malspam. In mid-June, researchers discovered
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President Trump’s recent highly publicised announcements of trade tariffs on products from China and elsewhere have led various commentators to suggest that Beijing’s retaliation against the measures could include launching highly damaging cyber attacks on a variety of commercial and government sectors in the US. Back in 2015, President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping
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As World Cup 2018 moves towards the latter stages, we have taken a look at the strategies – both physical and cyber – that the Russian state has implemented in its attempts to safeguard individual supporters who have travelled to the country, and companies involved in the tournament in some way. So far, we have
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The biggest news this month concerned a malware called VPNFilter. The threat was linked to Russian state-sponsored hackers (because of code similarities to other Kremlin-linked attacks), and in the initial assessment was believed to have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices. Later reports claimed that the FBI had taken control of one of
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Have you been inundated with emails requesting consent for companies to continue contacting you? Surprisingly, a lot of these emails were not actually required and, in some instances, may even have been sent illegally. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduces a higher standard of consent for companies processing your personal data and ensures that
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