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The Week In Review 19/04 – 23/04 It probably comes as no surprise to hear that 2020 broke all sorts of records for all of the wrong reasons when it came to cyber security. 514 new malware variants were deployed, with 81% of these being privately developed and deployed. Worryingly, there are 1,900 hacker groups in existence […]

The Week In Review 12/04 – 16/04 More than a month has passed since the start of the Exchange Server flaws revelation. While researchers have been trying to analyse the vulnerabilities since the beginning of this saga, some new discoveries have been made. This is the case of the NSA who discovered other bugs in the […]

With the regularity of Ransomware attacks becoming alarmingly more frequent, within both the public and private sectors, everyone is now sitting up and paying extra attention to information security.Ransomware attacks are not new, the first attack was in 1989. However, they are constantly evolving their forms to make the attack more successful. As always, prevention is […]

The Week In Review 05/04 – 09/04 Traditionally, cartels are notorious for their reach, fear factor, and ability to circumvent the law in pursuit of profits. So it is quite a fearful thought when four of the biggest cyber criminal groups in the world announce that they have decided to work together, effectively forming the world’s first […]

The Week In Review 22/03 – 26/03 An n-day vulnerability has caused huge problems for WordPress, affecting one of the plugins used on the platform. The ‘Ultimate GDPR & CCPA Compliance Toolkit’ was targeted by a bot written in Golang. The plugin which was in an unpatched state allowed the malicious actor to deploy the bot and […]

The Week In Review 08/03 – 12/03 As a company, Apple have increasingly sought to perpetuate user privacy, decreasing the access of advertisers and marketers to user data and gradually giving back control to the consumer. However, the global brand featured heavily in the echelons of cyber security news this week for precisely the wrong reasons. […]

ARTICLES & INSIGHTS The Week In Review 08/03 – 12/03 As a company, Apple have increasingly sought to perpetuate user privacy, decreasing the access of advertisers and marketers to user data and gradually giving back control to the consumer. However, the global brand featured heavily in the echelons of cyber security news this week for precisely […]

The Week In Review 01/03 – 05/03 Although attacks against vital organisations are not decreasing, this week has been dominated by malware and zero-day disclosures. Qualys was attacked and endured a data breach after a zero-day vulnerability in their Accellion FTA server was exploited to steal hosted files. These were released online on the Tor blog […]

The Week In Review 22/02 – 26/02 Recently, there has been a large increase in targeting vital organisations or governmental structures, using recent news events to deceive the targets. Critical National infrastructures are, as always, the target of state-sponsored attacks. One of the recent examples is ThreatNeedle malware, from the Lazarus Group (North Korean) that targets […]

ARTICLES & INSIGHTS The Week In Review 08/02 – 12/02 2020 is not a year that many of us will have fond memories of, and that is no different for the healthcare sector. With the NHS pushed to its limits and other healthcare providers under immense additional pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic the last thing they […]