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A new report published by F-Secure Labs links a number of state-sponsored cyberattacks to a hacking group engaged in Russian intelligence gathering. The whitepaper provides an in-depth analysis of a hacking group called “The Dukes”, and outlines over seven years of its attacks against governments and related organisations in the United States, Europe and Asia.   The report provides a detailed account of “The Dukes” – a group of attackers using a family of unique...

Neustar, Inc. (NYSE:NSR), a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services, today released the Europe, Middle East and Africa findings from its DDoS attacks and protection report titled North America and EMEA: The Continual Threat to Digital Brands for 2015. The report reveals a significant change in the nature of DDoS attacks that is leaving businesses exposed to data breaches and malware. The research shines a light on the changing tactics being employed in DDoS...

Excellus Blue Cross and Blue Shield, a USA-based insurer, disclosed on Wednesday afternoon that it was the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack by hackers who may have gained access to over 10 million personal records. Christopher Booth, the insurer's CEO, said in a message to customers that Excellus had discovered the attack on Aug. 5 and an investigation determined that it occurred on Dec. 23, 2013. The hackers are believed to have had access...

Businesses must prepare for a new generation of cyber risks which are fast evolving, moving beyond the established threats of data breaches, privacy issues and reputational damage to operational damage, business interruption and even potentially catastrophic losses. In a new report – A Guide to Cyber Risk: Managing The Impact of Increasing Interconnectivity – specialist insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) examines the latest trends in cyber risk and emerging perils around the globe. ...

Kroll Ontrack, the data recovery and ediscovery services provider, reports that it is receiving a growing number of enquiries from corporates about how to recover from ransomware attacks. While ransomware is not new, attacks have tended to focus in the past on home and small business computers and, increasingly, on mobile devices.  According to Kroll Ontrack, these attacks tend to happen in different clusters or strands that die out after about a month as anti-virus...

Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today released the findings of the Breach Level Index for the first six months of 2015, revealing that 888 data breaches occurred, compromising 246 million records worldwide. Compared to the first half of 2014, data breaches increased by 10% while the number of compromised data records declined by 41% during the first six months of this year. This decline in compromised records can most likely be attributed to...

At the end of August, ESET telemetry has detected traces of activity of the infamous APT group, a.k.a Carbanak. ESET researchers investigating this gang’s activities offer an in-depth analysis of their findings in the blogpost titled “Carbanak Gang is Back and Packing New Guns,” which is now available on WeLiveSecurity.com. With victims mostly in the United States, Germany, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, the Carbanak group keeps attacking specific targets related to the finance industry,...

As computing insecurities are increasingly exploited, a week long focus on security awareness is planned to conclude this year’s cyber security month. From 26 – 30 October the IT security community is coming together to offer five days of workshops, webinars and other educational opportunities in a bid to improve IT security awareness and spread best practice within the business community, ultimately acting as an enabler to make UK PLC a safer place to trade online. ...

Veracode, a leader in protecting enterprises from today’s pervasive web and mobile application threats, today released analytics from its cloud-based platform showing that, based on its analysis of hundreds of thousands of scans of mobile apps installed in actual corporate environments, the average global enterprise has multiple gambling apps installed in its mobile environment. In fact, some environments were found to contain as many as 35 unique gambling apps. Many of these apps contain adware as...

Dell SecureWorks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) research team is warning organisations, if they are housing valuable intellectual property, industrial secrets, financial data or sensitive political information, to be on alert for threat actors trying to breach their computer systems, using little or no malware in their attacks.  In nearly all of the intrusions in the past year responded to by the Dell SecureWorks’ Incident Response Team, cyber criminals utilised the target’s own system credentials and...