This month, Cyjax CISO, Ian Thornton-Trump, and Head of Editorial, Tristan de Souza, are joined by Joe Frederick, EMEA Operations and Security Intelligence Manager at A2 Global Risk, our geopolitical intel partners. The guys cover a recent US military report on North Korea’s physical and cyber capability, the Belarusian election, corporate (lack of) responsibility in …
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COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update Coronavirus-themed attacks are decreasing, with a 24 per cent reduction in June compared to May. This is due to other news items gaining traction: Black Lives Matter is a case in point. It should be noted that these attack topics will not disappear as long as there is sufficient interest in the …
Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 29 June 2020 Read More »
COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update Citizens Advice in the UK has warned users not to fall for a new scam campaign that is sending fake messages purportedly from the UK government. The messages can come in the form of calls, text messages, or emails in relation to the new NHS test and trace service. Citizens Advice has …
Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 22 June 2020 Read More »
COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update The FBI has reported on the most common types of fraud during the pandemic. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received nearly as many complaints in the first half of 2020 (about 320,000) as in the entirety of 2019 (about 400,000). Criminals continue to peddle counterfeit personal protective equipment (PPE) and fraudulent …
Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 15 June 2020 Read More »
COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update A recent interview with a member of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that state-sponsored groups have focused on exploiting COVID-19 fears to deliver malware and steal data. Before the lockdown, aviation was the main priority for CISA, but healthcare and the supply chain for food are now facing …
Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 8 June 2020 Read More »
COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update Internet and cloud providers have been challenged to reliably handle increased traffic and bandwidth strain due to the sudden shift to remote working. Between March and April, there was a 17 per cent increase in the number of DDoS attacks from the previous peak (in 2019), with over 864,000 DDoS attacks observed …
Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 11 May 2020 Read More »
COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update Since January, there has been a boom in threat actors capitalising on the COVID-19 pandemic – ZScaler reported a 30,000 per cent increase in phishing, malicious websites, and malware in this period. As the pandemic has continued, however, and lockdowns have affected cybercriminals as well as law-abiding citizens, there has been a …
Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 4 May 2020 Read More »
The full Cyber Threat Brief for Critical Infrastructure can be downloaded here. There has been a significant uptick in cyberattacks exploiting fear of the coronavirus to compromise victims. Notably, however, there has not been a surge in the total number of attacks. Instead, existing cybercriminal operations have been rethemed with COVID-19 lures. Attackers have not …
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Despite increasingly stringent measures being taken to slow the outbreak, both in UK hospitals and wider society, the number of cases continues to grow. Hospitals in the UK have cancelled all non-urgent operations for at least three months. Patients considered fit enough to leave have been sent home, and approximately 10,000 extra beds sourced from …
Businesses, governments and their citizens around the world face an unprecedented challenge from the coronavirus pandemic. This is both a physical and cybersecurity issue. At the time of publication, there had been over 330,000 confirmed cases worldwide and 14,500 deaths. This includes 5,683 patients in the UK and 281 fatalities. [1] Strict limitations have been …
