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A website which provided access to more than 12 billion personal credentials to cyber criminals for as little as $2 per day has now been taken down following a detailed investigation led by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in collaboration with various international law enforcement…

Advanced endpoint protection and remediation solution specialist Malwarebytes has announced the results of its latest Cyber Crime Tactics and Techniques (CTNT) report entitled ‘CTNT Q3 2019: The State of Healthcare Cyber Security’. The company observed a 60% increase in threat detections at healthcare organisations by…

Secureworks has announced the findings of a research report which analysed more than 1,000 incident response engagements throughout 2018. The incidents observed by Secureworks revealed that organisations are making the same fundamental security mistakes year-on-year – despite several high-profile fines and data breaches in recent…

Barracuda Networks researchers have uncovered an alarming new rise in the use of document-based malware. A recent e-mail analysis revealed that 48% of all malicious files detected in the last 12 months were some kind of document. More than 300,000 unique malicious documents were identified.…

Malwarebytes, the advanced endpoint protection and remediation solutions developer, has published its third annual State of Malware Report which analyses the top malware threats from January until November 2018 and compares them with the same period in 2017. The report identifies a sharp increase in…

Carbon Black, a leader in next generation endpoint security delivered via the cloud, has released its 2019 Global Threat Report, the contents of which is based on analysis and insight from the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit. Members of the team have researched the current state…

Ian Kilpatrick, executive vice-president of cyber security at the Nuvias Group, has outlined the company’s Top Ten Cyber Security Predictions for 2019. Among them are an increase in crime, espionage and sabotage conducted by rogue Nation States, cloud insecurity, a shift in terms of attack…

The City of London Police’s Cyber Crime Unit has now held its first Cyber Griffin briefing after the initiative was launched in May. The briefing session on Friday 29 June was attended by 40 individuals from numerous companies based in the Square Mile and comes at…

Allot Communications, a global provider of leading innovative network intelligence and security solutions for service providers worldwide, has just released the findings from its Telco Security Trends Report, in turn revealing a “dynamic and automated threat landscape” in which consumers lack the security expertise to effectively protect themselves. Mobile and the…

RSA Security has released its Q1 2018 Fraud Report featuring an analysis of consumer fraud data from the RSA Fraud and Risk Intelligence team. The report offers a snapshot of the cyber fraud environment from ‘behind enemy lines’, showing that the number of fraudulent transactions…