UK has biggest card fraud problem in Europe

The UK has the highest bank card fraud rate in Europe, with over 80% committed by fraudsters using stolen card details. There were 134 card frauds per 1,000 people in the UK... Read more »

SBRC to administer NCSC training across Scotland

The Scottish government has awarded the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) a £500,000 contract to extend cyber resilience training – in the form of the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC’s) Exercise In... Read more »

Spyware activity particularly impactful in July

Developers of mercenary spyware seem to have been unusually active in their weaponisation of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) during July 2022 – according to research published this week by Recorded Future... Read more »

Shift to remote work sees major rise in cyber crime

The traditional nine-to-five in-office workday has shifted to an always-on hybrid or remote working world, but a study from Verizon has found that with the increase in hours, locations and devices that... Read more »

Podcast: Storage at the edge – impact and opportunities

We talk to Tobias Flitsch, head of product at Nebulon, about the rise of the edge as a site for compute and data services and the impact this will have on data... Read more »

DrayTek patches SOHO router bug that left thousands exposed

Hundreds of thousands of users of multiple DrayTek small and home office (SOHO) routers need to patch their devices immediately following the disclosure of an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in... Read more »

Austrian data firm accused of selling malware, conducting cyber attacks

Microsoft threat researchers have accused an Austrian company called DSIRF of exploiting multiple zero-day exploits in Windows and Adobe to deploy a malware called Subzero against targets in Europe – including the... Read more »

Ex-youth footballers kick-start cyber careers

Cyber security training specialist Hack the Box and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) practice SureCloud are among those to have lent their support to a new programme designed to help train and reskill... Read more »

H0lyGh0st ransomware gang faces challenges, but still a threat

As the US authorities increase the available reward for information on North Korean threat actors by $5m, threat researchers at Digital Shadows have been probing a new North Korean ransomware gang, dubbed... Read more »

NCSC startups scheme turns focus to operational technology, SME security

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its partner innovation specialist, Plexal, have made addressing the security challenges facing operational technology (OT) environments and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the focus of... Read more »