The US arm of the world’s largest bank – The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) – was hit by a ransomware attack yesterday causing huge delays in payments and transaction...
Fortunately for most UK citizens, we live in a fairly peaceful country. Things tick along typically without too much fuss. Yes, we have problems, we have a cost of living crisis, we have a failing hea...
It looks like ransom negotiations between the LockBit gang and Boeing have broken down. On the 29th October, I posted about LockBit’s compromise of Boeing and the short timescale for ransom paym...
Back in October I posted about a number of Proof of Concept (PoC) exploits that are capable of leveraging the vulnerability described in CVE-2003-4911, which is a buffer overflow issue which can give ...
AIT – Artificial Inflation of Traffic is a type of fraud committed via mobile networks which generates huge amounts of fake traffic that can cost companies millions of pounds of lost revenue, bu...
Security researchers at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) reported a serious new vulnerability to Microsoft at the beginning of September that allows threat actors to run arbitrary code fo...
Just days after announcing that they had compromised airspace giants Boeing, LockBit have removed the post from their dark web site – an indicator that negotiations have begun between the ransom...
FIRST – the international forum of Incident Response & Security Teams has just announced the release of the latest update to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). The CVSS is a wid...
The latest report into the world of cyber security has just been published by the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2, and it makes pretty tough reading. The repo...
A joint pledge has been announced at the third annual meeting of the International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI), that aims to enhance international cooperation to combat the growth of ransomwar...