Cameron and Obama commit to fight against cyber crime
UK finally ratifies Budapest Convention on Cybercrime during president's visit
President Barack Obama signalled agreement with Britain on closer co-operation in cyber space in his historic address to parliament. He identified a role for Nato "that will give us the capabilities...
Threats and Risks
Iran-linked APT 'Charming Kitten' adds new impersonation tactics to trick potential victims
The group, also known as APT35, is thought to have recently targeted the US presidential primary elections
Transport, shipping and utilities targeted in two new malware campaigns
One campaign involves an alleged state-sponsored threat group that has compromised at least 17 US utilities in the past five months
Microsoft president Brad Smith calls for international convention to tackle 'unstoppable' rise of killer robots
US, Russia, China, Israel, and South Korea are all working on autonomous weapons systems
Emotet returns, spreading via spam emails and stolen credentials
Emotet was originally developed as a banking Trojan, but was re-written to work as a malware loader
Massive ticket fraud scheme targeting Groupon and Ticketmaster uncovered with discovery of unsecured database
Unsecured database containing 17 million email addresses was found to be part of fraud targeting Groupon, Ticketmaster and other online ticket vendors