Articles by Dev Kundaliya
British firms paid more than £200m in ransoms last year
British firms paid the sixth-highest total ransom amount to attackers last year, after the USA, Italy, Germany, Spain and France
Mirai botnet is targeting RCE vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP software
The bug could enable an attacker to create or delete files, intercept information and otherwise compromise the system
US agencies publicly link Taidoor malware to Chinese government
The warning comes in the midst of rising tensions between the USA and China
Florida minor charged for role in Twitter hack
The Florida State Attorney's office is handling the prosecution of a 17-year old boy for his role in the Twitter hack that affected accounts including those belonging to Bill Gates and Elon Musk
Twitter says hackers gained entry to its systems by calling employees on their phones
Spear-phishing attack enabled attackers to access 130 accounts on the social media platform
EU imposes sanctions against Chinese, Russian and North Korean hackers over cyber attacks
This is the first time that EU has imposed sanctions against cyber attacks
Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple CEOs face tough questions over anticompetitive practice
US politicians are investigating whether tech giants have misused their market dominance to kill competition
Cisco fixes critical flaws impacting DCNM and SD-WAN
The bug could allow unauthenticated attackers to steal sensitive information from vulnerable devices
VHD ransomware is owned and operated by Lazarus group, researchers find
The first reports of VHD ransomware had appeared in March this year
Blackbaud hack: National Trust confirms data breach
125 organisations in the UK have contacted the ICO in relation to data breach
Major hedge fund sees customers' personal data stolen by hackers
Data published online after service provider refused to pay ransom
Google employees to work from home until at least July 2021 amid Covid-19 pandemic
Initially, the company directed staff to work from home until April, before extending it to July and then the end of 2020. Now it's summer next year
Artificial intelligence model trained to identify birds in new images
Artificial intelligence could help researchers in studying avian behaviour
US government unveils blueprint for 'completely secure' quantum internet
The 'quantum internet' will run alongside the existing Web, as a parallel network for sending confidential government and financial data
Hackers are targeting organisations using a vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP software
A patch addressing the bug was released last month
Intel's 7nm chips will not arrive until late 2022
Rivals AMD and Nvidia have already started taking advantage of 7nm technology to produce more efficient chips
At least seven British universities hit by ransomware attack on cloud provider
Cloud services provider Blackbaud paid a ransom after being promised stolen data would be destroyed
'Failure of capitalism' helped Huawei dominate 5G technology, policy expert tells MPs
Many western governments are thinking about how and why they became so dependent on a single vendor
Exposed MongoDB database draws attacks within hours
Experimental honeypot set up by researchers reveals locations where most of the attacks come from
Nvidia shows interest in buying chip designer ARM
Nvidia is a licensee of ARM chips and a deal could draw opposition from other licensees
Chinese hackers launch new attacks to hit targets in India and Hong Kong, say researchers
A new variant of MgBot malware was used in latest attacks
US indicts two Chinese hackers for seeking to steal intellectual property and coronavirus vaccine research
The hackers are currently based in China, beyond the reach of US law enforcement agencies
China considering action against Nokia and Ericsson if EU bans Huawei
The government has already told telecom firms they should not purchase 5G equipment from Huawei, from the end of this year
Emotet is back and installing TrickBot trojan, researcher warns
The latest Emotet spam campaign is targeting people in the UK and the US
ATM vendor warns customers of black box attacks in Europe
In a new type of attack, criminals connect an external device to an ATM's internals and command it to spit out cash
TSMC to begin 3nm mass production in 2021, report
The chip maker is also rumoured to have made major breakthrough in 2nm chips
TSMC confirms plan to stop supplying chips to Huawei in two months
Says it is no longer processing orders from the Chinese firm
Russia accused of trying to hack into Covid-19 vaccine research in the UK, US and Canada
APT29 group is using publicly available exploits to conduct widespread scanning and exploitation against vulnerable systems, NCSC warns
'Patch critical SAP RECON vulnerability immediately', urges CISA
The bug could enable a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain control of SAP applications and steal data
Cisco issues security patches for critical vulnerabilities affecting its router and firewall products
The flaws could enable hackers to take full control of the target device
Microsoft issues patch for wormable SIGRed RCE flaw impacting Windows DNS Server
Researchers are putting it in the same risk category as BlueKeep and EternalBlue
Microsoft patches 123 vulnerabilities in July 2020 Patch Tuesday update
Eighteen of them are listed as 'Critical'
SoftBank mulls sale of Arm, hires Goldman Sachs to explore options
The Japanese conglomerate needs more cash to support firms in its $100 billion Vision Fund
Government could ask mobile carriers not to add any new Huawei equipment to 5G networks from January
The culture secretary is expected to make a statement on the matter in the House of Commons today
Microsoft says it will not support PHP 8.0 for Windows in 'any capacity'
The company currently supports the development of PHP 7.3 and PHP 7.4 and is providing assistance with security fixes for PHP 7.2
UK government expected to order removal of Huawei 5G equipment by 2025, report
Meanwhile, Huawei has requested a meeting with the Prime Minister as last-ditch effort to delay its removal
Zero-day flaw in Zoom could allow hackers to execute arbitrary code, researchers warn
0patch has released a free patch for older Windows machines
Elon Musk: Tesla 'very close' to having fully autonomous cars
Acknowledges many small problems that still remain to be solved
Critical security vulnerabilities impacted Bullguard's Antivirus and Secure Browser software, researcher claims
A major issue was found in the protection against malicious websites
Google open-sources network security scanner Tsunami
The project code was released on GitHub last month
Micro Focus reports $1bn loss due to economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic
The firm has been struggling since buying HPE's software business in 2017
US mulls a ban on TikTok and other Chinese social media apps
'We are taking this very seriously,' Pompeo says
Huawei targeted influential Britons to back its role in UK's 5G infrastructure, controversial dossier claims
The 86-page report is commissioned by a US film producer Andrew Duncan
Android devices are being increasingly targeted by undeletable adware, researchers warn
The adware plants itself in the system partition, making it hard to delete
Explosion at Iran's nuclear facility caused by Israeli cyber attack, report
The incident is expected to delay Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme by approximately two months
Government set to phase out Huawei from British 5G networks within months, report claims
Huawei will be forced to use 'untrusted' microchips in its equipment due to recent sanctions imposed by the US, intelligence officials claim
North Korea's Lazarus hackers are planting skimmers on US and European retail websites, researchers warn
The group has developed a global exfiltration network that uses hijacked websites to transfer stolen assets to attackers
Operation Venetic: Police bust crime chat network in UK's biggest ever law enforcement operation
Arrests were also made in other European countries, including France and the Netherlands