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The volume of malware hidden in encrypted traffic has doubled over the past few months as threat actors look to circumvent security tools, according to Sophos. The security vendor claimed that 23% of the malware it detected in 2020 was encrypted with the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol...

Some of the UK’s biggest hotel brands may be exposing themselves and their customers to the risk of phishing attacks due to a lack of adequate messaging security, according to Proofpoint. The security vendor took a look at the primary corporate domains associated with the 60 most popular listed...

IT security teams have until Sunday to hunt for evidence of Emotet infection, and potentially related malware, before the notorious botnet is removed from all global devices on Sunday, experts have warned. Back in January, Europol announced that law enforcers had been able to seize the...

The UK must work with other liberal democracies to ensure the internet and emerging digital technologies remain free and open. This is the view of Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, who gave the 2021 Vincent Briscoe lecture for the Institute for Security Science and Technology at Imperial College...

Ireland has been warned by the United States that storing large amounts of data makes it an attractive target for cyber-criminals. The caution was uttered by John Demers, the assistant attorney general at the US National Security Division, while giving a keynote address at the IFPC2021...

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has teamed up with marketing and cybersecurity games company Katzcy to launch the first US Cyber Games. Consisting of the US Cyber Open and the US Cyber Combine...

A woman from California has been charged with waging a multi-year cyberstalking campaign against three teenage boys. Brentwood resident Ramajana Hidic Demirovic was charged by a federal grand jury with cyberstalking and conspiracy to commit cyberstalking. It is alleged that 46-year-old...

Over a quarter (29%) of threats spotted in Q4 2020 had never before been detected in-the-wild, giving attackers an advantage over their victims, according to HP Inc. The tech giant’s latest Quarterly Threat Insights Report was compiled from data gathered from its global customers’ Sure Click...

Security researchers have discovered a new cyber-espionage campaign targeting global telecoms operators for IP and information relating to 5G. Named Operation Diànxùn by McAfee, the campaign is likely to be the work of Chinese threat actors RedDelta and Mustang Panda. “While the initial vector...

A Californian man has been charged by a US regulator for tweeting false information to his followers in a secret bid to inflate the value of his shares in a defunct cannabis company. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week announced fraud charges and an asset freeze against...

Half of cybersecurity incident response professionals desire a better work-life balance from their role, according to recruitment firm Stott and May. The survey of 100 incident response professionals in the UK and US sought to determine the key factors that personnel in this area look for in a...

File hosting service Dropbox has announced that it will be making its password manager feature, Dropbox Passwords, available to all users free-of-charge. From April, anyone with a basic, free Dropbox plan will be able to try a limited version of Dropbox Passwords, the company explained...

Security and communications integrator for businesses, industries and governments Optilan has announced the appointment of Adrian Bannister as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Bannister brings over 25 years of financial experience to the firm, which specializes in solutions for energy...

IT industry association CompTIA has launched a new training catalogue designed to facilitate the development of outstanding IT apprenticeships. The CompTIA Apprenticeship Training Solutions Catalogue will make it easier for training providers and their staff to understand how CompTIA learning...

The average ransomware payment soared by 171% year-on-year in 2020 as cybercrime gangs queued up to exploit the pandemic, according to a new report from Palo Alto Networks. The security vendor’s Unit 42 division compiled its Ransomware Threat Report 2021 from analysis of over 19,000 network...

The FBI has issued an alert to education sector organizations in the US and UK of an uptick in multi-stage double extortion attacks using the Pysa ransomware variant. Also known as Mespinoza, Pysa has been detected targeting higher education institutions, K-12 schools and seminaries in 12 US...

Recorded Future has announced a $52m deal to enhance its threat intelligence capabilities with the acquisition of Gemini Advisory. The self-proclaimed “world’s largest provider of intelligence for enterprise security” said the combination of both companies’ capabilities would give customers a...

Police in Wales have issued a warning to residents about a new phone scam, in which fraudsters are impersonating supermarket giant Tesco. Victims have reported receiving an automated call telling them that an order with Tesco has been placed and that £350 will be debited from their account. The...

Suspected internet crime complaints increased by 69% in 2020 compared to 2019 in the US, according to figures released in the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. Total complaints reached 791,790 last year, representing a rise of more than 300,000 compared to 2019. This resulted in total recorded...

Global technology company Acronis has completed its fourth acquisition in the past 18 months by acquiring its long-time partner in South Africa. The acquisition of Synapsys was announced as part of an accelerated growth plan being carried out by Acronis. Synapsys is a channel-centric group of...