Author name: Nick Watts

In the Americas, General Motors announced production cuts across its North American operations in September due to the ongoing global semiconductor shortage. New details revealed how Chinese state-sponsored threat group APT5 hijacked an NSA encryption backdoor to compromise Juniper Networks’ customers. The APT group injected code into the company’s NetScreen firewall. They were subsequently able […]

In the Americas, two commodity trading giants are facing curbs by state-owned oil giant PEMEX due to allegations of corruption. John Binns, a 21-year-old US national living in Turkey, claims to be the main threat actor responsible for the T-Mobile breach. He alleged that the attack was in response to mistreatment by US law enforcement

On 2 July, multiple reports emerged of a REvil ransomware incident and suspected supply-chain attack on US-based firm Kaseya – a remote management and monitoring (RMM) tool used by multiple managed service providers (MSPs). Kaseya has since appeared on the Happy Blog – REvil’s darknet leak site – and the ransomware gang is demanding a

There has been much debate in the cybersecurity world about the ethics and efficacy of ransomware payments. For many, the solution is simple: do not pay ransoms. Much like negotiating with terrorists, the logic suggests that paying ransomware operators encourages further attacks, sustaining the market, and perpetuating the cycle of compromise. If everyone refused to

The global coronavirus pandemic has spread rapidly, triggering a deluge of disinformation and misinformation. It is worth defining the two terms before progressing because they are often confused and conflated. Disinformation refers to content that is intentionally false and designed to cause harm. Misinformation is inaccurate or misleading content shared by someone that believes it