Cyber Attacks

University of Sunderland Is The Latest Victim Of A Suspected Cyber Attack

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University of Sunderland on the 12th day of October, 2021 suffered a series of downtime on its IT systems, telephone lines and websites. This was revealed on its twitter page and have stated that it “has all the hallmarks of a cyber-attack.” The Sunderland Echo a local newspaper, reported that staff members were encountering difficulties […]

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Attempted 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack on Microsoft Azure Fended Off

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Microsofts Azure cloud platform suffered a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DD0S) attack in the last week of August however this was mitigated. The attack targeted an unnamed customer in Europe surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in February 2020. Amir Dahan, senior program manager of Azure Network has said in a

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Healthcare Fast Becoming The New Target Of Ransomware Group FIN12

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The RYUK ransomware which has been in prevalence since October 2018 has been linked to an aggressive and financially motivated threat actor who has been known to have a close partnership with TrickBot-affiliated threat actors and making use of publicly available arsenal of tools such as Cobalt Strike Beacon payloads to interact with victim networks.

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Police Takes Down Multimillion-Dollar Real Estate Fraud Group

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The Europol once again have dismantled an international organized group (OGC) making millions off real estate fraud. Operations against the gang began back in 2017 however during a 10 so-called “action days” between September 2020 and September 2021 the OGC was taken down. A total of 130 suspects were identified and 116 searches conducted with

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Smishing Takes Central Stage In the Top 5 List of Common Fraud Scams

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Recent financial crime reports have stated that phishing scams conducted via texts otherwise know as smishing is now on the rise. This is ranked amongst purchase scams, where payments are made for products that never arrive, social engineering, impersonation and account take over (ATO). Smishing found its way into the Feedzai’s financial crime report top

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Ransomware Hackers Responsible For Attacks On Over 100 Companies Arrested in Ukraine

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Ransomware operators in Ukraine have been apprehended by Law enforcement agencies. The joint exercise took place on the 28th day of September by officials from the French National Gendarmerie, the Ukrainian National Police, and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), alongside participation from the Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and the INTERPOL’s Cyber Fusion Centre.

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Customer Service Desk: An Easy Access For Hackers To Exploit Your Organization

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The Customer service week which holds every 1st week of the month of October has come to be recognized as the week we celebrate the importance of customer service and importance of the people who serve and support customers on a daily basis. However in all of these celebrations lest we get carried away, do

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Hotels and Governments Worldwide New Targets of Hacker Group

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FamousSparrow as nicknamed by the cybersecurity firm ESET has been attributed as being responsible for strings of attacks against hotels across the world, government international organizations and law firms worldwide. This has been said to be active since August 2019 with victims spreading across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East with countries such as

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Feds Sanction SUEX for Aiding Ransomware Gangs

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The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russian cryptocurrency exchange Suex for helping facilitate and launder transactions from at least eight ransomware variants as part of the government’s efforts to crack down on a surge in ransomware incidents and make it difficult for bad actors to profit from such attacks using digital currencies.

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