Infosecurity News

  1. UK Government Department Using Unsupported Applications, Reveals Watchdog

    Almost a third (30%) of applications used by Defra are unsupported, a report from the National Audit Office has revealed

  2. ICO Fines Rogue Nuisance Callers £500,000

    Some companies forced victims to share card details

  3. Russia's VTB Bank Suffers its Biggest Ever DDoS

    Ukraine suspected of attack on state-owned lender

  4. Supply Chain Web Skimming Attacks Hit Dozens of Sites

    Malicious e-commerce campaign ongoing since December 2021

  5. China-Based Hackers Target Amnesty International Canada

    Results suggest the attack was executed using tools and techniques associated with Chinese APTs.

  6. Christmas Warning: Threat Actors Impersonate your Favorite Brands to Attack, Finds CSC

    Majority of third-party domain names impersonating the biggest global brands use domain privacy services, indicating the owner’s intention to mask their identity

  7. Swiss Government Wants to Implement Mandatory Duty to Report Cyber-Attacks

    The move would shed light on hackers and sound the alarm more widely on cyber-threats in the country.

  8. Threat Actors Use Malicious File Systems to Scale Crypto-Mining Operations

    The hackers used PRoot to increase the scope of their operations to several Linux distributions

  9. Gen Z Internet Users "Normalize" Cybercrime - Report

    EU-funded study finds concerning levels of risky behavior

  10. Russian Hackers Use Western Networks to Attack Ukraine

    Lupovis used decoys to find out more about threat actors

  11. Prolific Chinese Hackers Stole US COVID funds

    Secret Service says discovery may be the tip of the iceberg

  12. Rackspace Admits Security Incident, Helps Customers Migrate to Microsoft 365 Accounts

    The known impact was isolated to a portion of the firm's Hosted Exchange platform

  13. 'Team Mysterious Bangladesh' Hackers Target Indian Education Entity

    The hackers allegedly stole PII, including names, Aadhar numbers and IFSC codes

  14. Cyber Extortion Growing Exponentially in Africa, Middle East and China, Finds Orange

    Businesses are getting better at preventing cyber incidents, Orange Cybedefense’s head of Security Research Center said

  15. Google Releases Chrome Emergency Fix For Ninth Zero-Day This Year

    The flaw relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine

  16. Manufacturers Struggle to Manage Cyber-Threats from New Tech Deployments

    42% of UK manufacturers have been a victim of cybercrime in the past 12 months, according to new research

  17. Digital Giant ABB to Pay $315m in Bribery Case

    Firm pleads guilty in major South Africa conspiracy

  18. Microsoft: Beware Russian Winter Cyber-Offensive

    Ukraine's allies may be in the firing line for destructive attacks

  19. French Hospital Halts Operations After Cyber-Attack

    André-Mignot hospital shuts down computer systems

  20. Google Increases Android Security With Memory-Safe Programming Languages

    The number of memory safety vulnerabilities in Android dropped from 223 in 2019 to 85 in 2022

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