Cyjax has published a new White Paper which assesses cybersecurity practices in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the prospects for supply chain diversification to the region. Latin America and the Caribbean together encompass a vast range of territories in Central and South America. The region has historically been marked by economic and political instability, …
Cyjax has published a new White Paper which is divided into two distinct sections. First, it provides a historical and contemporary overview of the situation in Ukraine, along with an assessment of President Putin’s rationale for launching the 2022 invasion. The events which took place on 24 February 2022 took the world largely by surprise. …
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The major cyber threats facing the energy sector include ransomware, phishing, malware, vulnerability exploitation, supply chain issues, and DDoS attacks. These attacks may be carried out by state-sponsored threat actors, highly-organised criminal gangs, hacktivist collectives or even individuals acting alone. The energy sector is a prime target for cyber criminals for a variety of reasons: …
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There are interesting things happening in Kazakhstan, just as an important summit being attended by President Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping, along with the leaders of India and Iran, takes place in Central Asia this week. According to several unconfirmed reports, Kazakhstan is planning to withdraw from its membership of the Collective Security …
May 9 ‘Djen Pobedy’ (День Победы) is a day of huge celebration in Russia. Events take place in towns throughout the country to mark the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in World War 2. Before the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, Vladimir Putin doubtless had visions of new displays of adulation …
As 2021 draws to a close, there are increasing fears around the world that Russia is planning to invade Ukraine in an effort to prevent its former ally from moving further towards the West and possibly even joining the NATO military alliance. The tensions between these two former Soviet states are now at a critical …
On 16 March 2021, an important new report on national defence and foreign policy in the UK was published – ‘Global Britain in a competitive age’.[i] While in the report there is a focus on traditional forms of defence and the promise of an increase in spending on military hardware – including nuclear warheads – …
In this second part of our blog on the situation in Myanmar, we look at the developments that have taken place since the military coup a month ago. The violence being perpetrated by security forces against the thousands of demonstrators across Myanmar has been getting worse: at least 54 people have reportedly been killed and …
On 1 February, after more than 10 years of gradual political reform, a military coup took place in Myanmar, ending the rule of the National League for Democracy (NLD); party leader Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested, and in the following days other prominent politicians, including President Win Myint and members of the government, were …
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Recently, our team has noticed a slight uptick in malicious Word documents using Ostap to deliver a TrickBot payload. These documents tend to have a low detection rate and are very fussy about running in a sandbox. In order to get a better idea of how they work, we needed to deobfuscate the downloader by …
