U.S. warns of North Korean hackers posing as IT freelancers
Companies and other organizations should be careful when employing IT freelancers, lest they end up hiring North Korean hackers. The advice comes from the U.S. Department of …
New cyberespionage campaign targeting ISPs, research entities
ESET Research discovered a still-ongoing cyberespionage campaign using a previously undocumented Korplug variant by the Mustang Panda APT group. The current campaign exploits …
Malware resets Android devices after performing fraudulent wire transfers
If your Android phone initiates a factory reset out of the blue, there’s a chance it has been infected with the BRATA banking malware and you’ve just been ripped …
Digital IDs under attack: How to tackle the threat?
Digital identification is the focus of two reports by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA): an analysis of self-sovereign identity (SSI) and a study of major …
The security of devices held by public sector employees
Apricorn announced new findings from Freedom of Information (FoI) requests submitted to 16 government departments into the security of devices held by public sector employees. …
IR and SimEx: Can and should they be standardized?
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) intends to launch a new assurance scheme for incident response (IR) and simulated exercises (SimEx) in Q2 2022, which could become a …
Exploring the current state of cybersecurity resilience
Cyberattacks surged over fivefold during the height of the pandemic, with large U.K. organisations each facing an average of 885 attempted cyberattacks in 2020 – up from 156 …
How to strengthen incident response in the health sector
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity issued an analysis of the current state of development of sectoral CSIRT capabilities in the health sector since the implementation …
EU Commission takes on challenge to improve the cybersecurity of wireless devices
The European Commission has taken action to improve the cybersecurity of wireless devices available on the European market. As mobile phones, smart watches, fitness trackers …
SolarWinds hackers are going after cloud, managed and IT service providers
Nobelium, the advanced, persistent threat (APT) actor behind the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack that served as a springboard for breaching a variety of high-level …
(ISC)² goes to school: CISSP preparation and training as part of a specialist study
In this interview with Help Net Security, Renata Mekovec, Associate Professor and Head of the postgraduate specialist study Information Systems Security Management and …
Enterprises looking to cybersecurity providers to help protect IT systems
As enterprises in Germany digitize their operations and deal with the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are looking to cybersecurity service providers to help …