Infosecurity News

GCHQ Boss: Ransomware Has Doubled in a Year
Jeremy Fleming makes rare statement on current threat landscape

BEC Costs UK Firms £140M Over Past Year
Home buyers and SMEs warned in new awareness campaign

DiploFoundation Develops Simulated Cyber-Attack Game
Non-profit teams up with Kaspersky to make game that shows what happens during a cyber-attack

Nominations Sought for Global Cyber Awards
Globee Awards wants to know who’s been making the world’s best cybersecurity deployments

Anglo American Launches Cybersecurity Apprenticeships
Global mining company eager to train seven apprentices in cybersecurity skills

Countries Ranked According to Online Risks
The researchers combined data from five cybersecurity indices and indicators to create the list

Cyber-Attacks on House of Commons Soar by 358% in 2021
Experts suggest home working has led to the surge

BlackMatter Bug Saved Victims Millions in Ransom Payments
Emsisoft claims to have vulnerability info on over 10 other variants

Tesco App and Website Back Online After Cyber Incident
Interference by third party took supermarket offline all weekend

Nebraska Issues First Federal Cyber-stalking Sentence
Cornhusker State imprisons man who cyber-stalked his former girlfriend and her new romantic partner

New Cybersecurity World Record Set
Cybersecurity training achievement is a Guinness World Record first

US Secret Service Announces Cyber Games Winner
South Carolinians beat more than 200 teams to win NCFI’s Training and Cyber Games Competition

FOI Request Reveals Scale of Data Breaches at UK Councils
UK councils experienced 33,645 data breaches caused by human error in the past five years

22% of Brits Received Proof of Vaccination Phishing Email in Past Six Months
The majority of these scam messages impersonated the NHS

Halloween Horror-Show for Candy-Maker Hit by Ransomware
Chicago-based Ferrara slowly recovering as other firms are compromised again

Over 80% of Brits Deluged with Scam Calls and Texts
Summer of spam sees scammers ramp-up their fraud campaigns

Government Agents Compromise REvil Backups to Force Group Offline
Report reveals international operation to disrupt notorious ransomware operation

US Imprisons Bulletproof Hosting Providers
Two Eastern Europeans receive prison sentences for helping cyber-criminals to distribute malware

DOJ Sues Robocaller to Pay Massive Fine
US seeks to recover $9.9m from Montanan fined for making nearly 5,000 illegal and malicious robocalls

CISA Awards $2M to Cybersecurity Training Programs
NPower and CyberWarrior receive funding to train unemployed and underemployed



