In a bid to oppose the misuse of technology to abuse human rights or conduct malicious cyber activities, the U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday announced that it would hence forth bar the sales of hacking software and equipment to authoritarian regimes. This rule will go into effect in 90 days and will forbid the export, […]
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More than 270 government-backed threat actors from over 50 countries has been put on a watch list by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Approximately 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attempts to customers since the start of 2021. This brings about a 33% rise from 2020 as the spike stems from “blocking an unusually
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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An organized crime group that has so far amassed well over €10m from online fraud, drug trafficking and property crimes has been dismantled by the European police. The operation involved the Spanish and Italian national police, with Europol and Eurojust coordinating. The group itself, which was linked to the Italian mafia, is suspected of defrauding
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