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The number of cyber attacks in the UK is continuing to rise and small businesses are continuing to bore the brunt of these attacks. In fact, it is estimated that small businesses in the UK are targeted by 65,000 cyber attacks per day. Thankfully, the majority of these attacks are unsuccessful. However, a worrying numberRead more

Two recent significant cyber-attacks demonstrate the huge cost of malware attacks against large businesses. Aluminium producer Norsk Hydro has estimated remediation costs of their ransomware attack at £60 million (650 million Norwegian Crowns).  The attack back in March 2019 saw the company’s systems infected with the LockerGoga ransomware which brought production to a halt at 170Read more

Europol has just published their 2019 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment The key findings of the report make for interesting reading for Security Managers: While the number of ransomware attacks have reduced since 2018, the attackers have shifted their focus to more profitable targets – your businesses! Phishing and vulnerable Remote Desktop Protocol attacks areRead more

On 20th August 2019, we published a news article on our website that was intended to highlight a vulnerability which affected Messerschmitt “Mobile Key” door locks. At the time of writing, this article was written in good faith by us and was based on the previously-released research conducted by Chaos Computer Club that was presentedRead more

The trial of a Sys Admin who worked for the Fin7 cyber-crime syndicate provides a surprising look into the inner workings of the organisation. Fedir Hladyr was the Sys Admin running the support infrastructure for Fin7.  He was responsible for JIRA, Jabber and HipChat servers used to co-ordinate the work of their teams of hackersRead more

In the eternal arms race between malware writers and anti-virus vendors, a new front of attack is opening.  As security software has responded to the use of MS Office files as a means for malware delivery over email, the attackers have started to shift to the OpenDocument (ODT) file format first popularised by OpenOffice andRead more

Security researchers from two German universities have published details of flaws in document PDF encryption Digitally signed and encrypted PDF documents are widely used: to execute contracts, meet statutory reporting obligations and to protect commercially sensitive information transmitted as email attachment. Breaking PDF digital signatures PDF digital signatures use asymmetric cryptography; that is the signerRead more

Google is rolling out a critical patch for their Chrome browser in order to fix four serious vulnerabilities including one which enables arbitrary code execution on the system simply by visiting a specially crafted webpage – with no other user interaction required. Google is not releasing details of the vulnerabilities, other than to say theyRead more

The CWE top 25 is a list of the most common software defects that give rise to CVE being reported. Mitre, the organisation behind the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database, has scanned some 25,000 CVE reports logged within their database and the NIST National Vulnerability Database in order to compile the list for 2019.  ByRead more

Microsoft’s ATP research team has issued a details analysis of a new malware campaign which is pushing boundaries of the state of the art for Fileless malware.  Fileless malware does not leave a noticeable fingerprint on the file-system – it resides only in memory. Nodersok is interesting because of its use of living-off-the-land techniques; itRead more