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Kaspersky Lab and Kings College London researchers, looking for a link between a modern threat actor and the Moonlight Maze attacks that targeted the Pentagon, NASA and more in the late 1990s, have unearthed samples, logs and artefacts belonging to the ancient APT. The findings show that a backdoor used in 1998 by Moonlight Maze to tunnel information out of victim networks connects to a backdoor used by Turla in 2011 and possibly as recently...

To combat the shortage of graduates with data science and Hadoop Skills, SAS, the leader in analytics, has partnered with the University of Stirling to deliver a Masters course in Data Science for Business. The postgraduate course, the first course of its kind in Scotland, has been developed in close collaboration with HSBC, one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations, and The Data Lab, the international research and innovation centre in data...

BAE Systems has signed a deal with Zurich Insurance plc to provide Zurich’s business unit in Ireland, Zurich Ireland, with greater ability to detect, investigate, and prevent insurance fraud. This is part of Zurich Ireland’s commitment to tackle the rising cost of fraudulent claims and will help bring stability to the insurance market and ultimately benefit customers. Insurance claims fraud is recognised as a significant problem in Ireland and is a key factor in the...

Today, cybersecurity and identity management expert Intercede announces a partnership with Centrify, the leader in securing hybrid enterprises through the power of identity, to secure and manage mobile access in highly regulated industries who must comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), FIPS 201-2 and NIST 800-157. Interecede’s MyID enables enterprises to replace employee passwords with more secure and convenient digital identities on smart cards.  This solution then manages the lifecycle of credentials, for...

UK start-up Cyberlytic is making innovative web application security technology, originally developed for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and now available to SMEs to help them counter increasingly complex cyber threats. Cyberlytic’s new ‘Cyber Threat Profiler’ uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including machine learning, to detect and prevent web attacks targeting websites, in a way that is both faster and more sophisticated than ever before. Until now, signature-based detection has proved insufficient to protect...

The Bart ransomware that encrypts machines without an internet connection has been analyzed by Bitdefender researchers, and victims can now download the Free Bart Ransomware Decryption tool to recover their lost data. While the ransomware was first spotted in the wild in July 2016, Bitdefender is the only security vendor to offer a decryption tool for all Bart ransomware samples. The Bart Ransomware Decryption tool can decrypt files with the “.bart.zip”, “.bart” and “.perl” extension,...

Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have discovered an emerging and alarming trend: more and more cybercriminals are turning their attention from attacks against private users to targeted ransomware attacks against businesses. At least eight groups of cybercriminals involved in encryption ransomware development and distribution have been identified. The attacks have primarily hit financial organisations worldwide. Kaspersky Lab’s experts have encountered cases where payment demands amounted to over half a million dollars. The eight identified groups include PetrWrap...

Security scans performed on 60,000 Magento websites, the most popular e-commerce platform, show that 78% are missing critical security patches, while 5% are confirmed to have payment card data harvesting malware stealing their customer details. The scans were carried out, in the last week, using Foregenix’s free online scanner, WebScan. The findings follow a number of high profile breaches of customer data over the past year, involving companies including Oracle, Cisco and Yahoo. The cyber...

Poor security awareness, coupled with an insatiable demand for mobile apps, are placing UK consumers’ identities and devices at risk. A new nationwide survey commissioned by RiskIQ of 1,000 people across the country* reveals that almost half (45 per cent) do not scrutinise the app’s details while 60 per cent never or only occasionally review the privacy policy and permissions requested by the app before downloading. Such a fast and carefree approach to mobile apps...

Today, cybersecurity and identity management expert Intercede announces a partnership with Centrify, the leader in securing hybrid enterprises through the power of identity, to secure and manage mobile access in highly regulated industries who must comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), FIPS 201-2 and NIST 800-157. Interecede’s MyID enables enterprises to replace employee passwords with more secure and convenient digital identities on smart cards.  This solution then manages the lifecycle of credentials, for...