Cybercrime

Following a swathe of high-profile ransomware attacks, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has made changes to its guidance, emphasising the importance of offline backups

MAT recorded a two-digit growth in detected installation packages, while stalkerware incidents grew at least twice from that of 2018, reported Kaspersky

A DNS attack is an exploit in which an attacker takes advantage of vulnerabilities in the domain name system (DNS).

Organisations are still falling victim to hackers, but a new report from FireEye suggests that data protection legislation has improved the response time to cyberattacks.

The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, are coming up fast.

A local authority in the north-east of England appears to have suffered a major ransomware attack, leaving online public services down for 135,000 locals, for over a week

As new global stories emerge by the hour on the coronavirus, bad actors are (again) trying to confuse online updates with phishing scams and destructive malware. Here’s why action is required now.

An apparent ransomware attack has compromised some IT and email systems at Danish facilities firm ISS World

Foreign secretary describes 2019 campaign of cyber attacks as reckless, brazen and unacceptable

The dizzying speeds of development in today’s technologies create more opportunities for cybercriminals than ever before.  Each year we are seeing more and more challenges in the fight against cybercrime.  With so many potential targets in the IT environment: on-premise networks, cloud, mobile, and IoT devices, there are many areas that could provide a vulnerability for a cybercriminal to take advantage of.

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