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The UK’s cybersecurity industry generated record levels of external investment and revenue in the last financial year, according to official figures. The DCMS Annual Cyber Sector Report 2022 revealed more than £1bn was raised in external investment over 84 deals during this period. This includes Bristol-based Immersive Labs, which secured £53.5m, and London-headquartered Tessian, which raised more
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by Paul Ducklin VMWare’s latest security bulletin doesn’t mince its words about how quickly you should patch: When do I need to act? Immediately. The ramifications of this vulnerability are serious, especially if attackers have access to workloads inside your environments. [… G]iven the severity, we strongly recommend that you act. The issues referred to
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A range of pressing cybersecurity issues was discussed by members of the RSA Conference advisory board during a virtual session this week. The panelists began by highlighting the elevated profile of cybersecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is increasingly coming to the attention of business leaders. Caroline Wong, chief strategy officer at Cobalt, noted that “when I began my career, I
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VMware on Tuesday patched several high-severity vulnerabilities impacting ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, Cloud Foundation, and NSX Data Center for vSphere that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. As of writing, there’s no evidence that any of the weaknesses are exploited in the wild. The list of six flaws is
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Summary The ShadowPad advanced modular remote access trojan (RAT) has been deployed by the Chinese government-sponsored BRONZE ATLAS threat group since at least 2017. A growing list of other Chinese threat groups have deployed it globally since 2019 in attacks against organizations in various industry verticals. Secureworks® Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) analysis of ShadowPad samples
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Spain’s National Police Agency, the Policía Nacional, said last week it dismantled an unnamed cybercriminal organization and arrested eight individuals in connection with a series of SIM swapping attacks that were carried out with the goal of financial fraud. The suspects of the crime ring masqueraded as trustworthy representatives of banks and other organizations and
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Security researchers at Website Planet have discovered an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket containing the Personal Identifiable Information (PII) of millions of people. Inside the bucket were ten folders, containing around 6,000 files and totaling over 1GB of data. While most (approximately 99%) of the data belongs to American residents, some information relates to people living in Canada. 
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A leader of the hacking group Team-Xecuter has been sentenced to prison for participating in a piracy conspiracy against multiple gaming companies.  Canadian national Gary Bowser, who is also known as GaryOPA, was arrested in the Dominican Republic in September 2020 on suspicion of creating and selling illegal software and devices that enabled users to play pirated
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Nearly half of emails destined for inboxes in 2021 were classed as spam, with Russia the biggest culprit, according to Kaspersky. In its new Spam and Phishing in 2021 report, the Russian AV company revealed that it detected spam rates at an average of 46% over the year, peaking at 48% in June. Most of it came from
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A previously unknown hacking group has been linked to targeted attacks against human rights activists, human rights defenders, academics, and lawyers across India in an attempt to plant “incriminating digital evidence.” Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne attributed the intrusions to a group it tracks as “ModifiedElephant,” an elusive threat actor that’s been operational since at least 2012,
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The evolution of cyber-threats and the confluence of new systems and legacy systems are the most significant current challenges for security teams, according to a panel of CISOs speaking during a virtual event organized by HP Wolf Security. Moderated by Ed Amoroso, chief executive officer of TAG Cyber LLC, the session began with a simple question to
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A view of the T3 2021 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts While 2020 was the year of supply-chain attacks (and, yes, the start of the global COVID-19 crisis), 2021 was defined by shockingly severe vulnerabilities (…and by vaccines). The year started with
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Cybersecurity authorities from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. have published a joint advisory warning of an increase in sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure organizations across the world in 2021. The incidents singled out a broad range of sectors, including defense, emergency services, agriculture, government facilities, IT, healthcare, financial services, education, energy, charities,