Top 10 Stories

The UK Prime Minister will today announce up to £15 million to help Commonwealth countries strengthen their cyber security capabilities and help to tackle criminal groups and hostile state actors who pose a global threat to security, including in the UK. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Gov.uk

Malware authors have hijacked DNS settings on vulnerable routers to redirect users to sites hosting Android malware. According to Kaspersky Labs telemetry data, these were small-scale attacks, as crooks only hijacked traffic from just 150 unique IP addresses, redirecting users to malicious sites around 6,000 times between February 9 and April 9, 2018. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Bleeping Computer

TaskRabbit, the mobile marketplace that matches freelance labor with local demand, has apparently been hacked. Both the company’s website and app were down at time of writing and notifications had been sent out to users warning of a security issue. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Gizmodo

Another day, another heist: Ian Balina, a cryptocurrency YouTuber known for his (sponsored) ICO reviews, was apparently hacked out of $2 million during a livestream session. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Next Web

The United States and Britain on Monday accused Russia of launching cyber attacks on computer routers, firewalls and other networking equipment used by government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators around the globe. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters

Russia’s state telecommunications regulator said on Monday it had begun blocking access to messenger service Telegram, implementing a decision by a Russian court. The watchdog, Roskomnadzor, in a statement posted on its website, said that it had sent telecoms operators notification about blocking access to the service. Interfax news agency quoted an official at the watchdog as saying it would take several hours to complete the operation to block access. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE:...

The bankers in Bengaluru claimed to have discovered a new malware that helps the hackers siphon off money from a number of bank accounts forcing the southern city policemen to probe a number of complaints they received from the affected account holders. The policemen probing the cyber crime initially talk of MazarBot, a malware, used to sent some SMS to the bank account holders’ smart phones which provides the hackers with the banking details of...

The bankers in Bengaluru claimed to have discovered a new malware that helps the hackers siphon off money from a number of bank accounts forcing the southern city policemen to probe a number of complaints they received from the affected account holders. The policemen probing the cyber crime initially talk of MazarBot, a malware, used to sent some SMS to the bank account holders’ smart phones which provides the hackers with the banking details of...

MPs have voiced “serious concerns” about NHS Digital’s leadership, claiming execs paid “little regard” to the ethics of sharing patient details for immigration enforcement and are too close to government. Members of the House of Commons Health Committee slammed the body - which provides IT and data services for the NHS - for signing a data-sharing agreement with the Home Office. The government, meanwhile, was blasted for taking a stance on health data confidentiality that...

MPs have voiced “serious concerns” about NHS Digital’s leadership, claiming execs paid “little regard” to the ethics of sharing patient details for immigration enforcement and are too close to government. Members of the House of Commons Health Committee slammed the body - which provides IT and data services for the NHS - for signing a data-sharing agreement with the Home Office. The government, meanwhile, was blasted for taking a stance on health data confidentiality that...