Publishing giant Nikkei has reported they have lost $29million in an email fraud. In a press release they said: In late September 2019, an employee of Nikkei America, Inc. (New York City, United States) (“Nikkei America”), a subsidiary of Nikkei Inc. (“Nikkei”), had transferred approximately 29 million United States dollars (approximately 3.2 billion Japanese Yen) […]
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Reading about the latest hacks by alleged nation state sponsored groups from China or Russia may make for interesting lunchtime reading. But do these groups pose a real threat to the typical business? Many security managers ask themselves: Do I really need to worry about nation state actors? In this article, we will answer that
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A serious remote command execution vulnerability in the PHP-FGM module when used with NGINX has been disclosed in CVE CVE-2019-11043. Since NGINX does not have a native in-process PHP runtime and uses PHP-FGM instead, the PHP-FGM module is widely used. By submitting a specially crafted (yet simple) HTTP requested to the NGINX server, it is
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McAfee reports that a trio of malware kits are being actively used to target Office365 users. The phishing emails contain a clip of audio pretending to be from a voicemail intended for the recipient. A short clip of the audio can be played within the email which contains an urgent sounding ‘um hello?…’ The user is
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The German Federal Office for Information Security (or BSI) has published a report (in German) which evaluates the most popular modern web browsers against the BSI’s own guidelines for ‘modern secure browsers’ and only Firefox emerges with flying colours. The audit examined Mozilla Firefox 68 (Extended Support Release), Google Chrome 76, Microsoft Internet Explorer 11,
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The rapid increase is resolution and quality of smartphone cameras in recent years is opening up new possibilities for criminals. The BBC reports that a Japanese pop star was attacked outside her home after her stalker was able to examine the reflections in her eyes in multiple social media images and identify the street where she
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Anti-virus company Avast has revealed they were breached over several months, after identifying the suspicious activity on their network on 23rd September according to a blog post by their CISO. Avast think their CCleaner software was the target of a supply chain attack – with the hackers attempting to repeat the 2017 insertion of malicious
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What is the cyber kill chain and how can it help shape your security policy? The idea of the cyber kill chain was first proposed by computer scientists at the defence contractor Lockheed Martin in 2011. Given the background of the business, it is not surprising that their approach to defining a cyber-attack was heavily
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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 number
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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 170
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