Europol called Emotet “the world’s most dangerous malware” – and it is back in the security news this week – but what is Emotet, and how can you protect your network from Emotet based attacks? Emotet is the name given to a strain of malware and the cyber-crime organisation that created it. First detected in […]
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The UK Government has introduced new legislation which will improve the security of smartphones, IoT devices and connected appliances. The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill will require the manufacturers, importers and distributors of consumer connectable products to comply with cyber security good practices. According to the Government the regulations that flow from the new
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A new research paper looks at the security risks posed by the printers found in most offices and homes – and coins the term PrintJack to mean the hijacking of a printer by a threat actor. The research paper outlines three types of attack that could leverage a compromised printer. The standard TCP/IP port used
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Blacksmith is a new kind of Rowhammer attack that has been proved to successfully bypass existing Rowhammer protections in modern DDR4 memory chips – allowing researchers to extract security secrets and change memory contents on victim computers. What is Rowhammer? Modern computer memory chips are physically very dense – with billions of memory cells (each
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Creators and users of Operational Technology and IoT devices should pay attention to a new report from MITRE which reveals the Most Important Hardware Weaknesses causing security issues in 2021. For some years, MITRE has regularly reported on the most dangerous software security weaknesses by analysing the CVE vulnerability reports generated each year. Now they
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Trojan Source is a new kind of source code and supply chain attack that causes the source code reviewed by a human to be different from the actual software generated by the compiler – meaning the behaviour of the software will not match what the source code appears to say. In 2000, a phishing attack
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A new malware campaign dubbed SQUIRRELWAFFLE by Cisco Talos is being spread through malicious spam that makes use of stolen email messages to add authenticity. Malicious spam (malspam) is unsolicited email that seeks to deliver a malicious payload either through a Microsoft Office attachment or by tricking the user into clicking a link in the
LightBasin is a sophisticated threat actor that has established a persistent, long term presence in the heart of the network of at least 13 telecommunication companies around the world since 2019. According to research from Crowdstrike, the threat actor group known as UNC1945 or LightBasin, has been infiltrating the Linux and Solaris systems which run
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Microsoft’s 2021 Digital Defense Report provides a useful summary of the current and emerging threat landscape for Security Managers and CISOs. Read on for our summary of the key lessons from this year’s report. Cyber crime for Dummies We have seen increased industrialisation and commercialisation of cyber-crime over the last year. Criminal gangs are
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According to a new research paper, it is possible to trick a locked iPhone into authorising a contactless payment for a Visa card of any amount, if the Visa card is enabled for Express Transit (which can be on by default in the UK) Express Transit is a feature used by automated ticket gates on
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