Immigration law firm, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, has confirmed a data breach involving the personal information of current and former Google employees. The New York-based law firm provides companies with employment verification screening services to determine if employees are eligible and authorised to work in the United States. In a notice with the California […]

Cyberattacks on Internet-connected devices continue to rise at an alarming rate due to poor security protections and the use of automated tools by cybercriminals to exploit these vulnerabilities, according to the latest Nokia Threat Intelligence Report. The report found that Internet-connected, or IoT, devices now make up roughly 33% of infected devices, up from about […]

Rubrik, a cloud data management company, has revealed almost one-in-three (29%) Australian and New Zealand organizations which fell victim to ransomware attacks in the past two years had paid off the criminal groups responsible to regain access to their data. This insight emerged from IDC’s A/NZ Ransomware Survey, August 2020, commissioned by Rubrik. This finding […]

Researchers at cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky have detected a wave of fraudulent emails designed to make money for cybercriminals. The emails are disguised as lottery offer letters written in Arabic and contains a legitimate website link to make the email look trustworthy, yet in fact invite users to share their personal data in return for a […]

Following Apple’s recent presentation of the company’s updates and the iPhone 12 launch, Kaspersky experts have uncovered dozens of suspicious resources around the world, which allegedly offered to pre-order the new smartphone. In reality, however, there may be many more such resources and schemes. The websites typically include a ‘call to action’ for the user […]

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, has announced a first-of-its kind intent-based industrial intelligent IPS array for industrial environments, designed to protect Kuwait’s large-scale industrial networks from critical attacks whilst reducing OPEX and CAPEX. Aligned with Kuwait Vision 2035, the country is transitioning to a diversified economy with local manufacturing, along with […]

ESET researchers have participated in a global operation to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, which has since 2016, infected over a million computing devices. Along with partners Microsoft, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs Threat Research, NTT and others, the operation impacted Trickbot by tanking their command and control servers. ESET contributed to the effort with technical analysis, […]

As cybercriminals take advantage of the fear and uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, it’s crucial that organisations ensure the software they build and operate is secure – despite reduced resources. Adam Brown, Associate Managing Security Consultant, Synopsys, talks us through the steps organisations can take to improve their application security programmes to protect organisational data and […]

Indian drugmaker, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, said it had isolated all its data centre services as a preventive measure following a cyberattack. Its plants in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, India and Russia were impacted.  “We are anticipating all services to be up within 24 hours and we do not foresee any major impact on our […]

Ivanti, a company that automates IT and Security Operations to discover, manage, secure and service from cloud to edge, has announced the release of Ivanti Neurons for Patch Intelligence and Ivanti Neurons for Spend Intelligence. These solutions build on the Ivanti Neurons hyper-automation platform, first announced in July 2020, which empowers organisations to autonomously self-heal […]