Cybercrime

A recent survey amongst eight countries has revealed that a UK based financial services firm suffered the largest financial loss following a cyber-attack last year.

The annual Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report has been released with an update on progress in the cyber security arena for UK businesses.

A bank in Europe was the target of a huge distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that sent to its networking gear a flood of 809 million packets per second (PPS).

Since the start of the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown more than £16 million in online shopping fraud has been reported to Action Fraud.

Brits are understandably more worried about the NHS than personal cyber security

CVE-2020-3347 bug enables cyber criminals to steal meeting records from within Cisco’s Webex service

Embattled video-conferencing provider Zoom backtracks on previous refusals to provide end-to-end encryption to free users

Organised criminal campaign exploited Adobe, Oxford University and Samsung web domains to trick users into giving up their passwords

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252484788/Check-Point-uncovers-targeted-Microsoft-Office-365-phishing-campaign

Another twisty tale from the cyber sleuths at Check Point today, June 18, with news of a “very sophisticated, malicious” attack on Microsoft users in multiple countries

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/18/genius-hackers-hijack-oxford-university-tech-for-masterpiece-attack-on-microsoft-users/#3d49e4e4920d

Amazon says its online cloud, which provides the infrastructure on which many websites rely, has fended off the largest DDoS attack in history.