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By Rita Selvaggi, CEO of ActivTrak The global reach of the coronavirus has elevated the discussion around the need for “social distancing” and working remotely to avoid spreading the infectious virus. Global companies like IBM, Goldman Sachs, and PwC are asking employees to work from home, as are smaller organisations, such as Seattle-based online payment company Stripe. As organisations consider having employees work from home on a more massive scale, it’s important to recognise that...

Threat actors are distributing the Dharma Ransomware in a new spam campaign targeting Windows users in Italy.  The Dharma Ransomware has been active for many years and is based on another ransomware family called Crysis. It is not common, though, to see this ransomware family distributed through malspam as it is more commonly installed via hacked remote desktop services. Source: Bleeping Computer

Recent reports have shown the hacking group behind Maze ransomware has been steadily posting the data of its victims online after the organizations fail to pay the ransom demand. A compiled list of victims shows the data of several healthcare organizations are included in those postings, despite a lack of public reporting of those incidents. Source: Health IT Security

Bulletproof has released its Annual Cybersecurity Industry Report that shows that half of the most pervasive of critical flaws - which offer hackers an easy route into an organisation – are down to outdated components, such as unpatched or unsupported software. However, this number has jumped significantly from 22%  over the previous year, indicating a widespread negligence when it comes to organisations’ cybersecurity practices. One of the most shocking findings was that cyber criminals continue to...

A word that has become synonymous with suspicious, illegal or unscrupulous online activity, it is hard to avoid bots being mentioned in one capacity or another in 2020. Now accounting for 50% of online traffic, bots and the legality of bots remains a misunderstood subject. Defined in layman’s terms as an automated tool that mimics human behaviour in order to generate a large amount of traffic, bots can be used for almost anything online, most...

Quentyn Taylor, Director of Information Security at Canon Europe Ltd. has shared his Rant of the Week with the Guru! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cw7hZhhbTw&feature=youtu.be

by Nigel Stanley, CTO at TUV Rheinland Operational technology (OT) based solutions – where computerised systems control a physical output or detect a physical effect – have become an area of increased focus for cyber-attacks. This has now become a real concern for enterprises whose production systems, manufacturing plants, industrial control systems and processing infrastructure are under constant threat. Cyberattacks are a very real risk. Criminals have identified these OT systems as prime targets as...

Javvad Malik, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4 has shared his Rant of the Week with the Guru! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbPzuWrLLqU&feature=emb_title

The New York City Police Department’s fingerprint database was hit with ransomware in October 2018, a local newspaper learned. The attack was brought in by a third-party vendor who was installing video equipment at the NYPD’s police academy when it connected its infected computer to the police network, according to the New York Post. Source: SC Magazine

Federal agencies reportedly had improper access to Social Security data belonging to 3,200 license holders. Source: Dark Reading