Financial advisory firm Succession Wealth probes cyber attack

Succession Wealth, a UK-based wealth management and financial planning specialist that was acquired by insurance and pensions giant Aviva in 2022, has moved to reassure customers after revealing it is conducting an... Read more »

Security Think Tank: New trends and drivers in cyber security training

Cyber security training is a vital security strategy for many enterprises across the world. Such training has been established at large companies and government organisations for many years now. Small to medium... Read more »

E-Sign Act (Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act)

What is the E-Sign Act (Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act)? The E-Sign Act (Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act) is a U.S. federal law that specifies that,... Read more »

Multi-purpose malwares can use more than 20 MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

Malware developers are becoming increasingly adept at creating advanced, multi-purpose malwares that effectively serve as a “Swiss Army knife” for cyber criminals, with the ability to perform multiple malicious actions across attack... Read more »

What charities should know about ransomware and reputational threats

Last March, the email and phone systems at the Scottish Association for Mental Health suddenly stopped working. A possible sign of a cyber attack, confirmed when the cyber criminal gang RansomEXX uploaded... Read more »

Microsoft fixes three zero-days in February update

Microsoft has issued fixes for a total of 75 newly discovered common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in its February 2023 Patch Tuesday update, including three zero-day vulnerabilities that, while they have not... Read more »

Royal Mail refused to pay £66m LockBit ransom demand, logs reveal

Royal Mail has supposedly rebuffed an $80m (£66m) ransom demand from the LockBit ransomware gang, saying “under no circumstances” would it pay “the absurd amount of money” demanded. This is according to... Read more »

Vidar, nJRAT re-emerge as prominent malware threats in January

The veteran Qbot or Qakbot banking trojan, the Lokibot commodity infostealer and the AgentTesla remote access trojan (RAT) were the most prevalent malwares observed during January 2023, according to the latest monthly Global... Read more »

UK authorities clamp down on illegal crypto ATMs

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), working alongside West Yorkshire Police’s Digital Intelligence Unit, has raided several properties in Leeds suspected of hosting illegal cryptocurrency automatic teller machines (ATMs). The joint action,... Read more »

OSC&R framework to stop supply chain attacks in the wild

A team of cyber security leaders and influencers have joined together to launch an open framework to help security teams improve their understanding of threats to their software supply chains, and evaluate... Read more »