UK innovation agency hit with ransomware attack
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the government department that directs research and innovation funding, suffered a possible ransomware attack last week. The organization has issued a statement in which it described “data being encrypted by a third-party”. However, it could not confirm whether or not any data was stolen, which is common practice for modern ransomware operators. According to ZDNet, …
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Most firms think they’ll be hit by a security attack this year
Most organizations suffered a cyberattack in 2020, and many executives have come to believe that suffering multiple attacks a year is inevitable. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity experts at Proofpoint, which polled 150 Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) and Chief Security Officers (CSO) on their organizations’ cyber-preparedness. More than half (53 percent) suffered at least one …
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Zero-day attack – An inevitable threat?
A Zero-day vulnerability is a software flaw that has the potential to be abused in multiple different ways and which is unknown to the targeted software. The term ‘Zero-day Attack’ refers to an attack situation in which a vulnerability is both exploited in the wild and unknown to the target software, and the target therefore has “Zero days” to remedy …
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New DDoS attack takes inspiration from acoustic beat
There is a new type of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in town, and it’s inspired by an acoustic beat. Spotted by web infrastructure firm Cloudflare, the attack sends traffic in pulsating waves instead of going for all out bombardment, simulating the beating of a drum. The goal of this new type of attack is likely to deceive security …
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