The Sandworm cyber criminal gang have resurfaced in recent months with a new malware strain named SwiftSlicer which aims to destroy crucial Windows operating system files. Who are Sandworm? Sandworm h...
Love ’em or hate ’em, Google is an Internet force to be reckoned with, and they do a lot more than provide web searches and cat videos. In the background of the Internet, Google employs th...
Up to 10 million customers of retail giant JD Sports Fashion may have had their details compromised. This includes customers of JD sports, Size?, Millets, Blacks, Scotts, and MilletsSport, and relates...
Security researchers at Palo Alto Network’s Unit-42 were working on a response to a Black Blasta ransomware attack recently, and in the process of doing so, uncovered a new variant of a RAT (Rem...
The united states has put up a $10 million reward for intelligence on the identities and whereabouts of the Hive ransomware criminals – see my previous blog about the Hive take-down. The reward ...
This is a re-working of blog I actually published via the company I work for about 2 years ago, but thought that I would revisit as the content is still very relevant today: Cyber Attacks on the rise ...
Yesterday saw the final step in a long campaign by global law-enforcement agencies to take down a RaaS (Ransomware as a Service) network called Hive. Operation Dawnbreaker Europol (The European Union ...
A new Rat (Remote Access Trojan) has been identified which is infecting various machines and allows the attackers full control over a compromised device. Identified by threat analysis company Securoni...
Back in December last year – between December 6th and 8th to be more precise, PayPal discovered that they had been on the receiving end of a cyber attack. After conducting their internal investi...
For many years, many cyber security professionals (myself included) have droned on about the need for people to change their default passwords to something only they know. You know the ones: But what ...