Tag Archives: cyber attacks

Despite the advancements of anti-malware solutions, malware variants are becoming increasingly prevalent, sophisticated and evolved. In addition, there are new trends in execution such as the increased modularity of malware where a combination of attack methods and mix-and-match tactics are used to ensure maximum damage and/or financial loss. The rise …

Paul Evans, CEO at UK cloud data management company Redstor, reveals how the pandemic has changed attitudes to data protection The first few weeks of lockdown highlighted a stark difference between organisations ready for remote working and those who weren’t. Businesses that were cloud ready made the transition seamlessly, while …

The Office of National Statistics recently cited a 12% increase in fraud and computer misuse. Cyber-attacks can be particularly damaging to small and medium-sized enterprises. But despite this news, a recent Kaspersky report shows there has been a lack of investment in IT security. Why has the amount of money into cybersecurity …

 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) receives over a quarter of a million malicious email attacks every day, according to official figures. Data revealed under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act by the Parliament Street think tank’s cyber security team, showed that an average of 283,597 malicious emails were blocked by the …

ESET researchers have participated in a global operation to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, which has, since 2016, infected over a million computing devices. Along with partners Microsoft, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs Threat Research, NTT and others, the operation impacted Trickbot by tanking their command and control servers. ESET contributed to …

Cyber crime is soaring in 2019, as more than half of British firms have already reported attacks this year. That’s according to research from Hiscox, which found that found 55% had faced an attack in 2019, up from 40% last year. Among firms reporting attacks, average losses associated with all cyber …

A new cyber threat report from Beaming has found that UK businesses were subjected to 119,659 internet-borne cyber attacks each, on average, in the first quarter of 2019. This rate of attack, which equates to one every minute, was more than double that experienced in the first three months of …

Swivel Secure CEO Adrian Jones offers up his advice on what to do if your technology infrastructure has been breached.

Installing a ‘benchmark’ for all IoT gateways to give some control over the data being consumed by smart devices

As the ‘Petya’ ransomware sweeps around the world, IT security experts are signalling the dawn of a new era