The release of the 2022 Falcon OverWatch Threat Hunting Report from CrowdStrike has revealed the recent trends in cyber crime from July 2021 to June 2022. According to the report, the number of cyber crime campaigns has increased by 50% with financial crime accounting for 43% of all attacks. According to CrowdStrike’s analysis cyber crime […]
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Microsoft is undoing a decision it made earlier this year to disable macros by default in Microsoft Office applications. In February an update was announced that Microsoft was introducing a new way in which VBA macros would be handled. This change is now being rolled back by Microsoft until further notice. This affects the Microsoft
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The mistakes we make and how to fix them – a new report co-authored by the NCSC reveals the 10 most common security weaknesses exploited by hackers. A joint security alert from the National Cyber Security Centre UK (NCSC-UK) was released earlier this month, co-authored by cybersecurity bodies from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and
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The 15 most targeted security vulnerabilities of 2021 have just been published in a joint advisory from the NCSC. These are the main ways hackers are attacking businesses around the world. Cybersecurity authorities across multiple nations co-authored this publication to provide insight into the exploited vulnerabilities and offer mitigation strategies to deal with the identified
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The security of every business is dependent on the security of its suppliers. From the PCs on peoples desks, to the servers in cloud, the firewalls in the office and the experts that connect to your network to tune your database or manage your servers. A security failing at any of these suppliers could allow
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The NCSC has issued updated guidance on the evolving threat from Russian state actors and cyber criminals due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) from the cybersecurity authorities in the UK, USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand warns that: “Evolving intelligence indicates that the Russian government is exploring options for
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When the LAPSUS$ ransomware group broke into the network of Nvidia, the data they stole included two code signing certificates which are now being used to sign malware to help it bypass security defences. In order to prove that an application or driver is genuine and really does come from the named developer, a digital
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Russia’s deployment of troops into Ukraine is the physical side of a war that has been raging for some time in cyber space. How might your UK business get caught in the crossfire of this cyber war? On the 15th and 16th of February, the Ukranian banking sector was subject to a distributed denial of
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Microsoft has announced several steps they are taking to improve the default security of Office document and Windows systems by protecting them against malicious macros and LOL-bins attacks. Microsoft Office to block macros for all Internet documents Microsoft is changing the default behaviour of Office applications that can contain VBA macros. Currently when a
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According to research from Google’s Open Source Insights Team, the Apache Log4j vulnerabilities affect 4% of the projects in the Java ecosystem – over 17,000 packages in the Mavern Central repository alone. Log4j is a popular library that provides logging services to many thousands of Java based applications. Earlier this month security teams and system
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