An unknown group of hackers have stolen a reported $6 million after a successful attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging systems in Russia last year. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters
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An unknown group of hackers have stolen a reported $6 million after a successful attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging systems in Russia last year. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters
Read moreDetailsBetween 2016 and 2017, there was an increase in the number of critical vulnerabilities reported for Windows 10. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Dark Reading
Read moreDetailsUS Democrats have introduced legislation that would allocate roughly $1 billion to secure America's voting system. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Gizmodo
Read moreDetailsIt is thought that 23% of organisations globally are affected by the cryptomining malware variant Coinhive. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Helpnetsecurity
Read moreDetailsThe UK has attributed the 2017 NotPetya cyberattacks to Russia placing the blame specifically on the Russian military. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters
Read moreDetailsIt has been revealed that the number of breaches suffered by the financial services sector has tripled over the past five years. The study, conducted by Ponemon found that the average cost of cybercrime for financial services companies globally has increased by more than 40 percent over the past three years, from $12.97 million per firm in 2014 to $18.28 million in 2017 – significantly higher than the average cost of $11.7 million per firm...
Read moreDetailsMicrosoft's telemetry analysis service, Windows Analytics has incorporated a Meltdown and Spectre locator with additional features including antivirus, operating systems updates and firmware services. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
Read moreDetailsThe Adobe exploit that was discovered earlier this month has now been patched. Microsoft was protecting Windows users from suspected North Korean exploitation. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ZDNet
Read moreDetailsKaspersky Lab researchers have discovered that the popular communications service Telegram is being exploited by Russian cyber-criminals. The exploit is allowing the hackers to remotely install new malware which could be used as a backdoor or as a way to deliver crypto-mining software. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine
Read moreDetailsThe computer virus that was successful in shutting down the winter Olympics website for 12 hours during the opening ceremony has been named as 'Olympic Destroyer'. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters
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