Threats and Risks
Maersk rebuilt its entire IT infrastructure to recover from NotPetya
The company, which handles a fifth of the world's shipping, operated for 10 days with no IT
ONS: cyber crime against businesses rose more than 60 per cent in 2017
Attacks like WannaCry meant that virus outbreaks more than doubled
2017 was a banner year for ransomware, but development is slowing as criminals turn to Trojans
Malwarebytes' State of Malware Report shows how criminals are changing tactics
'SpriteCoin' ransomware takes advantage of cryptocurrency hype
The new ransomware encrypts files and delivers more malware instead of a decryption key
One million email credentials from the top-500 UK law firms' found for sale on the 'dark web'
Law firms wide open to phishing scams following security breaches
Zirconium's massive malvertising campaign reached more than half of ad-monetised websites last year
A network of fake ad agencies and shell companies was used to run the operation
Davos: World leaders fear cyber attacks more than disease, terrorism or food shortages
High profile attacks like WannaCry have pushed cybercrime into the public eye
Mobile devices are even more vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre than PCs
Only four per cent of devices have been patched - and many can't be
Dell EMC Protection Suite vulnerabilities identified and quickly fixed
Digital Defense flagged the weaknesses up to Dell EMC
ICO urges patching to fix Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, despite performance hit
Fail to patch at your own risk
Online retailers warn of significant losses, as chargeback loophole proves unstoppable
High-end retailers have warned that they are losing significant revenue to fraud, with card companies, payment acquirers and the government all seemingly unwilling to help
Google told chipmakers about Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities last summer
The flaws affect all chipmakers, contrary to earlier reports and claims
Serious Intel bug affects major cloud providers, and the fix will affect performance
Slowdowns of 35 per cent have been reported
Attacks can use open sensor data to guess your phone's PIN, 99 per cent of the time
A lack of permission requirements means that sensor data is open to any app that wants it
Morrisons should be a lesson on the costly consequences of insider threats
What can other companies learn from the class-action lawsuit facing Morrisons?
Security firm threatened with legal action for report highlighting adware
Cybereason and its lead researcher Amit Serper targeted with legal threats by group behind OSX.Pirrit adware
Two men 'fingered' by Brian Krebs over Mirai malware and IoT botnet plead guilty in US court
Paras Jha and Josiah White also pleaded guilty to running an internet advertising click-fraud scheme
Business leaders don't understand cyber risks, making investment difficult to secure
Only 30 per cent told CA Veracode that they had heard of the Equifax breach
MoneyTaker: Yet another Russian hacking group exposed
Banks, law firms and financial software vendors in the UK, US and Russia among groups targeted by MoneyTaker, according to Group-IB
Phishing emails have spiked this year, outgrowing malware
Why try to trick a system when you can just fool the user?
GDPR has forced changes in security training, says expert panel
George Tunnicliffe of the National Theatre called the GDPR "A massive advert for two-way security"
Top 5 ways to avoid ransomware
Ransomware isnt't going to abate in 2018 - what are the best ways to avoid it?
To move forward with cybersecurity we must 'battle our own complexity' says Darktrace founder
'There's an awful lot of hype out there'
One third of UK organisations would pay up for ransomware, finds Computing report
That's a six per cent rise since 2016
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