Medical technology giant Olympus has recently been investigating what it referred to as a “potential cybersecurity incident” that negatively affected some if its IT systems for the company’s operations in three regions – Africa, the Middle East and Europe. […]
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An unofficial hacker-built Linux version of a Cobalt Strike beacon has been identified by cybersecurity researchers being actively deployed in attacks aimed at international organisations. The threat operator is behind the development remains unknown, but experts have confirmed that the version of Cobalt Strike has been custom-built from the ground up. Corruption of a useful […]
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Renowned for its malicious assaults on well-known enterprises, the infamous REvil ransomware gang is now back at full capacity and is once more attacking a fresh crop of victims before publishing their stolen data files on its dedicated leak site. […]
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Local council systems and data stores contain a vast amount of confidential information on data subjects who live within a borough or county. This presents local authorities with a considerable responsibility to protect the members of its community and the data it retains on them. […]
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A malicious operator has leaked an extensive list containing close to 500,000 password and login names for the Fortinet virtual private network (VPN). The disclosed credentials were allegedly obtained during last summer, scraped from vulnerable user devices. […]
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While enterprises and world governments have long been targets of cybercriminals, local authorities are fast becoming a sought-after victim for attacks. Often lacking the same defensive capabilities, training for personnel and security budgets available to larger entities, they present a more vulnerable – and therefore more accessible – target. […]
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From the rise of ransomware attacks on enterprises and local councils, to breaches experienced by service giants exposing millions of customer records, the data retained by organisations and local authorities is more at risk today than ever before. […]
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Each year, International Programmers Day is celebrated around the world on the 256th day of the year. The numeral 256 was selected as in terms of distinct values, it’s the number that can be represented by a byte, which is a well-known value to any programmer. Proposed by a Russian software firm’s employees back in […]
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The nefarious ransomware gang known as Ragnar Locker is now warning that it will disclose stolen data records in the event that its victims inform law enforcement agencies like the USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of attacks. […]
Individuals for whom the English language is a native tongue are now being heavily recruited by cybercriminals as they look to increase the success of business email compromise (BEC) attacks. […]
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Data files belonging to Japanese technology giant Fujitsu are now being sold by a threat actor known as Marketo on the dark web. […]
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Technology giant Microsoft has advised thousands of cloud computing customers enrolled for Azure services, including numerous companies on the Fortune 500 list, that a vulnerability has rendered their confidential data completely exposed during the last two years. […]
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