Of the 20% of all UK hacks that were targeted at the healthcare industry, a large proportion were intended to disrupt the Covid-19 supply chain, which was seen as an easy target and something of a cash cow. The NCSC Says that it played a key role in minimising the potential damage by keeping constant […]
In the last year, the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) has responded to 7% more incidents (777) than in the previous year, with ransomware attacks being the most prevalent; “the same number of incidents in the first four months of 2021 that it did in all of 2020, itself triple the number of incidents in […]
Some advice from BT on how to protect your small business if you lack the resources much larger organisations can afford to have: Understand the risks – it’s crucial to know what different types of cybercrime there are and how to identify them, as they could lead to anything from sensitive data being stolen, to your website going […]
More than 60% of global ransomware attacks are directed at the US and UK, according to a report by Atlas VPN. 52% targeted US organisations, 11% UK-based. Canada and the Rest of The World accounted for the remaining 37%. Outdated technology and a lack of cybersecurity staff make government departments the ripest of targets. Interconnected […]
Europol has reported that there was a 300% increase in ransomware payments in the year 2019-2020 and cyber criminals are developing new techniques to make ransomware campaigns more effective and likely to result in a payout. “The use of traditional mass-distributed ransomware seems to be in decline and perpetrators are moving towards human-operated ransomware targeted […]
The total number of vulnerabilities associated with ransomware attacks is now 278, according to a new report from Ivanti. Meanwhile the sophistication, ambition and number of active ransomware groups is increasing. Five of the 12 most recently identified vulnerabilities are capable of remote code execution attacks and two are capable of exploiting web applications and […]