Human-operated ransomware attacks are up more than 200% since September 2022, according to researchers from Microsoft, who warned that it could represent a shift in the cybercrime underground. Human-operated attacks typically involve the active abuse of remote monitoring and management tools that allow hackers to leave behind less evidence — as opposed to automated attacks […]
More than 3.8 billion records have been exposed after digital protection firm DarkBeam left an interface containing the exposed records unprotected. The leak was discovered on September 18 by CEO of cyber security news site SecurityDiscovery, Bob Diachenko, who alerted DarkBeam to the leak. The digital protection firm immediately addressed the vulnerability and closed the leak […]
More than six weeks after hackers caused “significant disruption” to Swan Retail’s inventory management, order fulfilment and accounting systems, fashion retailers told Drapers the issues have still not been resolved. Sandersons Boutique owner and co-founder Mark Dransfield said the cyber-attack on Swan Retail, which occurred on 13 August, “has hugely affected” the business. “We are […]
Cyber-attacks on European financial services firms more than doubled between Q2 2022 and Q2 2023, surging 119% in the period, according to new data from Akamai. The security vendor’s latest State of the Internet report detailed threats to the sector globally, drawing on data from the firm’s network of 340,000 servers distributed across over 130 countries. […]
Encrypted SSDs have existed for more than a decade, but many end users and some sys admins don’t fully understand them. Most SSDs are self-encrypting drives (SEDs) that support internal encryption. However, there are various levels of encryption, reasons for using it and vendors that supply it, so organizations have a lot to consider. How […]
Hong Kong’s Consumer Council has revealed that the personal data of more than 25,000 people may have been leaked in a cyberattack against the watchdog, up from an earlier estimate of 8,000. Gilly Wong Fung-han, chief executive of the council, on Monday also said computer systems operating its external services, such as those handling inquiries […]
More than 97% of the world’s internet traffic passes through subsea cables at some point, according to ENISA. Subsea cables are a vital component of the global internet infrastructure, and it is critical to protect them from cyberattacks, physical attacks and other threats. What are the challenges? With the growing reliance on the internet, and […]
Malicious actors have stolen more than $1m in a ‘pig butchering’ cryptocurrency scam in just three months, researchers from Sophos have found. The highly sophisticated operation used a total of 14 domains and dozens of nearly identical fraud sites, according to the investigation. The attackers utilized fake trading pools of cryptocurrency from decentralized finance (DeFi) […]
Sending an email with a forged address is easier than previously thought, due to flaws in the process that allows email forwarding, according to a research team led by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego. The issues researchers uncovered have a broad impact, affecting the integrity of emails sent from tens of […]