Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Ken McCallum, the MI5 director general and Christopher Wray, the FBI director have delivered a joint statement at the MI5 building in London, warning that China is carrying out economic espionage and hacking operations to steal technology for competitive gain. “We consistently see that it’s the Chinese government that poses …
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In the autumn Apple will be adding “Lockdown mode” functionality to the range of it’s operating systems – iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura. For a drastic reduction in functionality, users, who are at risk from sophisticated cyber attacks, such as those posed by Pegasus and Hermit spyware, will …
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Legitimate software vendors are always upgrading their offerings to give the user more features or a better experience. So we should not be surprised when threat actors who offer ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) or malware-as-a-service (MaaS) update their malicious software with new features, including ones to avoid detection and mitigation. Hive ransomware …
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Make sure your Google Chrome patching is up to date. Google has just released a patch to fix a flaw in Chrome that was being actively exploited by threat actors. The attack is directed at the WebRTC system – which is a component used in web based comms, so avoid …
Well this is really unbelievable! The threat actors behind the AstraLocker ransomware have decided to switch to another cyber-crime, but in the process of closing the servers down, the developers behind the malware have submitted the AstraLocker decryptors to the VirusTotal malware analysis website. AstraLocker ransomware shuts down and releases …
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