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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has received the millionth submission to its Suspicious Email Reporting Service, just two months after it first launched in the face of a surge in spam and phishing attacks at the height of the first wave of the UK’s Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak. The NCSC said that besides Covid-19-related lures, more than 10,000 of the malicious URLs blocked and removed as a result of the public’s reports related to cryptocurrency investment scams, promising...

You may have never heard the name before, but Osman Kavla is one of Turkey’s most celebrated activists and philanthropists. Osman Kavala is a person who is sensitive to international challenges and has tirelessly worked to bring people with different perspectives together in dialogue to address local and international conflicts. This dialogue both lays a foundation and charts a course for positive real-world change based on peace and human rights. His work is culturally constructive,...

Less than one in three Americans are concerned about their data security while working from home despite a 400% rise in cyber attacks during the pandemic, according to a new report from Unisys. Mathew Newfield, the chief information security officer of Unisys, said the Unisys Security Index Report found for the first time since 2010, internet security was not a top concern for Americans. "A lot of these people are now working from home, and they...

Researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 have developed a new technique to protect consumers from voice spoofing attacks. Fraudsters can record a person’s voice for voice assistants like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant and replay it to impersonate that individual. They can also stitch samples together to mimic a person’s voice in order to spoof, or trick third parties. The new solution, called Void (Voice liveness detection), can be embedded in a smartphone or voice assistant software and works...

An American police procedural comedy television show has topped the list of most dangerous TV titles for US citizens to watch online. New research published today by global security software company McAfee revealed the web-based entertainment options most commonly targeted with malware by cyber-criminals. McAfee analyzed more than 100 of the most popular TV and movie titles available on US streaming sites as defined by “best of” articles that appeared in a range of US publications. Researchers then hunted...

A ransomware campaign, dubbed Hakbit, is targeting mid-level employees across Austria, Switzerland and Germany with malicious Excel attachments delivered via the popular email provider GMX. The spear-phishing based campaign is low volume and so far targeted the pharmaceutical, legal, financial, business service, retail, and healthcare sectors. Low-volume style campaigns, sometimes called snowshoe spam attacks, use multiple domains to send relatively small blasts of bogus emails to circumvent reputation- or volume-based spam filtering. “The largest volume...

A Twitter spokesperson has told ZDNet today that they've permanently suspended the @DDoSecrets Twitter account for violating its policy about the distribution of hacked data after the account shared links to hacked data stolen from US law enforcement agencies. Prior to the ban, enforced earlier today, the DDoSecrets account belonged to an activist group going by the formal name of Distributed Denial of Secrets. On Friday, last week, the group published 296 GB of data...

According to reports, more than 10,000 people have joined a group class action against easyJet after personal details of nine million customers were breached in the recent cyber attack. LAW firm PGMBM is leading the case against the budget carrier after filing papers last month with the sheer amount of customers from more than 50 countries making it one of the UK’s biggest group-action personal data claims. easyJet revealed in May that it was the...

A new report reveals that 41% of Irish firms experienced at least one cyber attack event in a six month period from September 2019 to February 2020. This is among the findings of a study of 5,569 companies across eight countries that was commissioned by insurer Hiscox, which includes Irish data for the first time. Today's report also shows that 6.5% of Irish firms paid a ransom following a ransomware attack. The Hiscox Insurance study...

An alleged breach of COVID-19 test result data is being investigated by authorities in Indonesia. Concerns over a possible breach were raised after a hacker tried to sell what they claimed was the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people who had been tested for the novel coronavirus in Indonesia on an online forum. Posting on the database sharing and marketplace forum RaidForums on June 18, the alleged hacker claimed to have exfiltrated the test results...