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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 […]

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

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

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

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

The prospect of cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure worldwide has been raised in the media again, after reports that researchers have identified state-sponsored Russian hackers as being responsible for a wave of infections involving malicious malware called VPNFilter. 500,000 routers and storage devices in a total of 54 countries have reportedly been harnessed in preparation

It appears that 2018 really will be the year of the cryptominer. Since the end of 2017, detections of both cryptomining malware and cryptojacking scripts (in-browser miners) in websites have only increased. This trend continued into April, and whilst ransomware has not disappeared by any means, cryptomining malware has been the most detected threat for

The decision to award the World Cup tournament to Russia in 2018 was greeted by a sense of disbelief in many quarters, with football’s governing body, FIFA, subsequently accused of corruption, and its former president, Sepp Blatter, among those forced to relinquish their positions within the organisation. In 2016, with just two years to go

Ever since the closure of AlphaBay and Hansa back in July 2017, there has been a sense that Darknet vendors are holding back in fear of law enforcement. AlphaBay and Hansa were closed down following Operation Bayonet, a joint initiative between Dutch police forces and the FBI. It is believed that as many as 10,000