More than four in five organisations (82%) were manipulated using ransomware in 2022 according to Proofpoint’s 2023 Phishing report. Cybersecurity expert VPN Overview reveals the ways in which ransomware can infect your computer and how to avoid it. 1. Phishing and email impersonations   Phishing – sending emails with the purpose of obtaining …

Half of CISOs will formally adopt human-centric design practices into their cybersecurity programmes, while adoption of zero trust architecture will rise Fifty per cent of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) will adopt human-centric design to reduce cybersecurity operational friction; large organisations will focus on implementing zero-trust programmes; and half of …

A cyber hack at Okta put businesses on high alert, and here, we examine how AI can help prevent future breaches Okta, who provides authentication services to many large companies including FedEx, Sonos and T-Mobile, confirmed that they have previously been hacked, falling victim to a data breach. With the …

Security experts have reported a surge in new phishing techniques that don’t use email – is your cybersecurity ready for vishing, smishing, and quishing? Organisations in highly regulated industries such as insurance, banking, legal, healthcare and financial services were most targeted by cybercriminals in 2022 using new techniques, including vishing …

IT Governance has released its monthly analysis of the latest data breaches and cyberattacks in March 2023. In March 2023, 41.9 million records were compromised by cyberattacks across the world, according to IT Governance, a global provider of cyber risk and privacy management solutions. IT Governance also identified 100 publicly …

A vulnerability in Twitter’s code was recently discovered that allows users to game the algorithm with mass blocking actions from large numbers of accounts, in an effort to suppress specific users showing up in people’s feeds — essentially, it allows bot-created “shadow bans” in the parlance of social media censorship critics. Now, …

Pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16), popularly known as simply NoName – has listed Japanese organizations including railway services as its targets, in retaliation to Japanese sanctions against 48 Russian individuals and 73 organizations.  The targeted organizations include Petroleum Association of Japan and East Japan Railway Company. The Petroleum Association of Japan …

A cybercriminal outfit is posing as well-known ransomware gangs in order to extort money from US companies. Since March, the group, known as Midnight, has impersonated other gangs in emails sent to US companies, instructing them to pay up or have their data leaked. The threats are completely empty, though, as no malware tools are used …