Cybercrime

  • 08 Mar 2020 8:39 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Local authority’s systems are still offline nearly three weeks after being attacked

    https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252479241/Redcar-Cleveland-Council-confirms-ransomware-attack


  • 08 Mar 2020 5:57 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

    https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252479322/NCSC-makes-ransomware-attack-guidance-more-accessible


  • 02 Mar 2020 10:18 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

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

    https://www.scmagazineuk.com/mobile-advertising-trojans-stalkerware-peak-2019/article/1675237


  • 02 Mar 2020 10:16 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

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

    https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/DNS-attack


  • 01 Mar 2020 11:05 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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.

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/cybersecurity-hacking-victims-are-uncovering-cyber-attacks-faster-and-gdpr-is-the-reason-why/


  • 01 Mar 2020 10:59 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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

    https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cyber-attack-takes-down-redcar/#.XlcFJQVjc9g.twitter


  • 01 Mar 2020 10:25 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    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.

    https://www.govtech.com/blogs/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity/coronavirus-scams-prepare-for-a-deluge-of-phishing-emails-fake-alerts-and-cyberthreats.html


  • 23 Feb 2020 8:51 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

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

    https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252478890/Facilities-firm-ISS-World-crippled-by-ransomware-attack


  • 23 Feb 2020 8:46 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

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

    https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252478902/UK-and-US-accuse-Russian-spooks-of-Georgia-cyber-attacks


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